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July 20, 2006
Asian Fusion
On warm sunny days I am part-Black, says so my Black friends. On winter days my extended family thinks I'm part-white. My dad likes to joke that I was sired by the neighborhood milkman. I've heard this story so many times, I'm starting to wonder if it's true; I was an 'accident' after all. Most of my friends back in high school thought I was Japanese for some reason. The Filipinos claim me as one of their own. I feel like my Thai relatives are exotically praising me when they compliment me on my white skin. A work colleague at my previous job befriended me because she initially thought I was the same ethnic makeup as her, Filipina/Italian. I know there are guys out there who would love to be in my shoes—a recent Fridae profile browsing has confirmed this—but there are many days where I wonder what it would be like to look, you know, mono-ethnic.
Posted by Charlie at July 20, 2006 10:04 PM