I am pissed off about everyone asking me where I'm "from". I'M FROM HERE. I'M FROM THE WORLD, isn't that enough? Jesus Christ. People are constantly asking me where I'm FROM! STOP! STOP ALREADY! GAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
Oh, and Blogger staff? STOP TELLING ME TO BLOG IN MY NATIVE INDIC SCRIPT GOD DAMMIT, MY NATIVE SCRIPT IS THIS ONE IN WHICH I AM TYPING RIGHT NOW, ENGLISH ENGLISH EEENNNNGGGLIIIISSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I'm clearly losing it. But at least I know I'm losing it. On the other hand, this brings up all kinds of self-awareness questions, like does the madwoman know she's mad? and that thing about the act of observing changing the action itself? like when you try to see an electron? just looking at the electron changes it? so if I'm calling attention to my crazy, am I...ACTUALLY BEING SANE?!
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Oh my god, I just had a really long conversation about this same issue with my friend Leeanne (she's Korean but she was adopted by a pair of Caucasian Houstonians). I'm surprised that you're getting that question out in LA - Leeanne and my theory is that Sherman folks ask her that so often because they're so terribly unexposed to (different) culture. And diversity. Fucking Sherman.
Anyway, Leeanne waits tables at the new Olive Garden here and people ask her things like, "how can you speak english so well" and one time one of her tables made bets on which southeast Asian country she was from. It's bad, yo.
I also have a classmate, Afua (pronounced Afee-ah), that was born in El Paso (I think cause her family was working there at the time) but is really from...umm, Ghana, I believe? She's lived like everywhere. Anyway, she's told me about how sick she is of that question, and her facebook profile actually says "Hometown: the world".
Yeah, actually, I get this everywhere I go. Once I went to a party hosted by Kyle's mom (in Seattle) and one of the guests goggled at me and said, "oh my GOD. where are you FROM?" I get it, Seattle is kind of a whitebread city, but - also #1 in the country in terms of education level per citizen. I've gotten it from all sides - black people, brown people, white people. The worst part is this is all starting to make me kind of hostile. Like whenever someone asks me (even if it's to comment on my exotic good looks, haha) I'm tending towards looking them in the face and going, "What do you mean." Not even a question. It tends to make them think about it. Of course, 1 person thinking equals about 200 million walking around with their thumbs up their asses, but hey. We all do what we can.
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