Comments on: Hey Lady!!!!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:28:07 +0000

The other day a little girl asked me if my daughter was adopted. I said “no her father is chinese. ”
She went “oh that is where she gets her eyes from. I have my daddy’s eyes too.”
So I asked my daughter”hunny do you have daddy’s eyes?” all laughing and silly like.
My daughter started laughing and went ” no I have my eyes!”

By: Amyesq

Amyesq — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:03:43 +0000

My little brother gets asked “What ARE you?” all the time. I mostly don’t, since my Dad’s Native American genes didn’t hit me with the same force as they did my little brother. He says it is kind of weird to be asked “What are you?” all the time. He is like “Um, I’m a guy named Bobby…”

I was recently asked whether I was babysitting my daughters. What a weird question! I just said “No. They’re mine.” I don’t know why it bothered me, but it did. On two occasions, people actually thought I was Asian and assumed my daughters were my bio kids. (I guess again with the Blackfoot playing out on my features) The first time was actually when a group of Asian women asked me if I was Asian. I told them I was not and that my daughters were adopted. The second time was when I got into a conversation with a woman at the mall. It also somehow came up that the girls were adopted and she looked at me and said, “Wow, if I didn’t know better, I would have thought they were YOUR kids!” I looked at her with feigned confusion. “What? They ARE my kids…. they’re just not my biological kids.”

By: BlackStawberry

BlackStawberry — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:01:27 +0000

heh, Let say when I am with my parents (I’m half American and half Mexican, but I’m European and Native American on both sides of the family) NO one even dares to ask me “What I am” when I’m shopping or working. But when I’m school I get asked at all the time. I hate that question, beacause after they ask me that come the racist remarks, bad jokes and that dreaded halfbreed comments.

By: Noah Boddy

Noah Boddy — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:23:59 +0000

>I’m mixed Japanese and white and I get asked “what I am” ALL THE TIME.

Asians get asked “What they are” all the time, but it’s usually phrased a little differently.

“Where are you from”?
“Los Angeles”
“No, where were you ORIGINALLY from”.
“I was born in Los Angeles, California”.
“No, were are you REALLY from?”

What they really want to know is what you “are” (Chinese, Japanese, etc).

By: ap

ap — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:12:54 +0000

I’m mixed Japanese and white and I get asked “what I am” ALL THE TIME. I’m in my early 30′s now, so I actually don’t get it as much as I used to. I think teens and younger people are more free to ask those kinds of question. It’s really no big deal at all.