Writer's Block: Say What?
Mar. 6th, 2012 05:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I have two!
One
The first one that comes to mind is, "How do you go up the stairs?"
Mom and I were taking a train, and a little kid - maybe 6 years old - approaches the stairs that happened to be near our seat and asks mom the above question. Mom's response was, "You go up the stairs."
Two
I was at the Subway (restaurant), standing in line. I placed my order. The customer behind me, a woman who appeared to be of Southeast Asian heritage, asked me, "Are you Indian?"
At first I thought I hadn't heard her correctly. Anyone who has seen me knows that my skin tone is the shade of Cool Whip, and I couldn't figure out why someone who appeared to be Indian herself was asking me if I was. So I asked her to repeat the question, and she did. I don't remember how I responded.
All I can think of was that I had ordered a veggie sandwich, and that many of my Indian friends over the years were vegetarians...so maybe she thought veg sandwich equals Indian heritage? That's the only explanation I can think of.
I have two!
One
The first one that comes to mind is, "How do you go up the stairs?"
Mom and I were taking a train, and a little kid - maybe 6 years old - approaches the stairs that happened to be near our seat and asks mom the above question. Mom's response was, "You go up the stairs."
Two
I was at the Subway (restaurant), standing in line. I placed my order. The customer behind me, a woman who appeared to be of Southeast Asian heritage, asked me, "Are you Indian?"
At first I thought I hadn't heard her correctly. Anyone who has seen me knows that my skin tone is the shade of Cool Whip, and I couldn't figure out why someone who appeared to be Indian herself was asking me if I was. So I asked her to repeat the question, and she did. I don't remember how I responded.
All I can think of was that I had ordered a veggie sandwich, and that many of my Indian friends over the years were vegetarians...so maybe she thought veg sandwich equals Indian heritage? That's the only explanation I can think of.
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Date: 2012-03-06 08:33 pm (UTC)I got asked that same question once when I worked at BB. *snort*
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Date: 2012-03-06 11:20 pm (UTC)Interesting that you've been asked too. That I could see more, that sometimes Indians and African Americans can resemble each other a bit.
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Date: 2012-03-07 02:10 am (UTC)Once when I was there someone asked me if I knew Creole. I WISH! Another time someone assumed I knew Spanish, just because of my name ...
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Date: 2012-03-09 06:30 pm (UTC)Shadeism (http://vimeo.com/16210769) from Shadeism (http://vimeo.com/shadeism) on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com).
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Date: 2012-03-07 03:48 am (UTC)Funny thing...my friend Nee, who IS Indian, once told me that she's been mistaken for Middle Eastern, Puerto Rican, Native American, Mexican...just about anything EXCEPT Indian. LOL.
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Date: 2012-03-08 12:06 am (UTC)Note the ladder in my icon. :)