I got a lot when I told my friends I was a lesbian, that "oh, you always did dress a little androgynously". Which has really NOTHING to do with it. I've always dressed that way and I was pretty sure I was hetero for a while. Logic fail!
I'm actually mildly fascinated with Asian-American experiences (because that's a lot of different countries, it's like how my family is Polish-Slavic-Russian, VASTLY different things) because I know in my high school there were 2.5 asian kids, and they all helped run the Chinese restaurant in the area. And I get to college and suddenly I'm assaulted with all these interesting cultures and it's like, "I WANT TO HANG WITH YOU ALL".
It was kind of amusing being That White Kid hanging with my Indian friends or my Korean ones. It kind of brought me a little closer to what it had to have been like for people in my family a couple generations back--reconciling the old culture and the current one.
Alright, so I probably should have minored in sociology as well as history, because I like learning things.
Not to sound clinical or weird or anything. I like hearing about how people got over Not Fitting The Box, I suppose. I had to join marching band and start wearing ties. Don't ask me how that helped, it just did.
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I got a lot when I told my friends I was a lesbian, that "oh, you always did dress a little androgynously". Which has really NOTHING to do with it. I've always dressed that way and I was pretty sure I was hetero for a while. Logic fail!
I'm actually mildly fascinated with Asian-American experiences (because that's a lot of different countries, it's like how my family is Polish-Slavic-Russian, VASTLY different things) because I know in my high school there were 2.5 asian kids, and they all helped run the Chinese restaurant in the area. And I get to college and suddenly I'm assaulted with all these interesting cultures and it's like, "I WANT TO HANG WITH YOU ALL".
It was kind of amusing being That White Kid hanging with my Indian friends or my Korean ones. It kind of brought me a little closer to what it had to have been like for people in my family a couple generations back--reconciling the old culture and the current one.
Alright, so I probably should have minored in sociology as well as history, because I like learning things.
Not to sound clinical or weird or anything. I like hearing about how people got over Not Fitting The Box, I suppose. I had to join marching band and start wearing ties. Don't ask me how that helped, it just did.