Monday, April 11, 2011

"Where are you from?"

I get asked this question a lot. Usually people just think I'm Chinese, but I've gotten a fairly wide range of other, often hilarious guesses. For example.


Chinese/Japanese. The usual. They never guess Korean though.

Vietnamese. Still sort of acceptable.
  
Thai.
Filipina.
 
Cambodian.

And Malaysian/Indonesian/whatever other people they can think of from an Asian country of course. Which, for some people, comprises a rather surprisingly long list. Then we leave the continent and have...

  
Spanish. I don't quite see it.

Malagasy (Madagascar). Really don't see it.

And my personal favorite:

Pocahontas. Yes, really.

Apparently the combination of my facial features, hair, skin tone, and language abilities is extremely confusing for the French.

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