Just Me

Title: Just Me
Category: Literature / English | Words: 275 | Pages: 1.2 (approximately 235 words/page)

Just Me

As a Thai-Chinese American growing up in the suburbs of Seattle, I deal with a lot of people who are ignorant about minorities. They always assume that I am Chinese because Chinese are the only Asians that existed for them. People come up to my face and ask me if I speak English. My Caucasian American friends tell me I drive horribly even though they have received more driving tickets than my mother. Strangers on …showed first 75 words of 275 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 275 total…walking on the street with a huge American flag draped over my shoulders and a sign hanging around my neck with the words “Born in the U.S.A.” scribed in big bold letters and would flash a bright neon pink every now and then. Consciously or unconsciously, racism is alive and well in America. No matter how subtle, racism is racism, and well, being yellow in a black and white America is hard stuff.

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