What the Heck Are You? The Racial Guessing Game I Don’t Want to PlayPosted in Arts, Asian Diaspora, Autobiography, Media Archive, United States on 2015-04-16 14:17Z by Steven |
What the Heck Are You? The Racial Guessing Game I Don’t Want to Play
Hapa Mama: Asian Fusion Family and Food
2015-04-13
Melinda Frank, Guest Blogger
Growing Up Ethnic
“I thought you were Dutch–you’re Indonesian?”
“I thought you were Irish–you’re Dutch?”
“Wait, you’re white and Asian?”
“What are you anyways?”
I hate answering the question “What are you,” because in my experience, that question always overshadows the more meaningful question of “Who are you?”…
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