It's definitely interesting because I've been the brunt of stereotypes my whole life just because of my gender and ethnicity. I tried to live up to those stereotypes for a while before I realized it was better of to be me. I suppose everyone goes through that, but I spent many years pretty screwed up mentally because of my inability to reconcile who I was with who people thought I was. I was always somewhat of a tomboy who preferred the outdoors and old black and white military movies to whatever the dominant stereotype was for Asian people my age.
As for those old Chinese stereotypes, I'm not good at math, I still am not a doctor or engineer and I don't have an MBA or a Ph.D., but that's ok. XD
Lately, the predominant thing I get is "You're a librarian? But you don't look like one!" I'm not sure how librarians are supposed to look, but obviously I don't look it.
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Date: 2008-09-12 08:22 pm (UTC)As for those old Chinese stereotypes, I'm not good at math, I still am not a doctor or engineer and I don't have an MBA or a Ph.D., but that's ok. XD
Lately, the predominant thing I get is "You're a librarian? But you don't look like one!" I'm not sure how librarians are supposed to look, but obviously I don't look it.