I attend a well-known university in California, with a high Asian population. (It's either Stanford or Berkeley.) Many of them are "fobs" as in fresh off the boat Asians.
I am half Taiwanese aboriginese, and half Caucasian. I guess I have tanner skin than most Chinese people, at least that's what they keep telling me. Basically people think I have Southeast Asian blood rather than Northern Asian, and these Asians keep commenting on my skin color, etc. What's up with this?
They want to be like Americans, yet I've lived in America my entire life, and no American has ever made comments about my skin color or incessantly asked me what my heritage is. I find it somewhat offensive. Plus they always comment on my "big eyes" and make remarks about that...it's just irritating. It's just odd that they want to imitate Americans, yet while Americans want tan skin, they bleach their skin...what's up with this? And why this obsession?
2006-12-07
12:06:48
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