And my cousin's half-Chinese, so I've had the same experience a few times. Which also leads to - I spent a lot of my life, teen years at least, basically thinking, "well, I know I couldn't ever subscribe to racist modes of that, I love my aunt and my cousin and I don't think of them as different from me" - but of course it's not that simple.
And now I know a lot more about the topic, but kind of . . . in some ways just enough to know, really, how little I do know.
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Date: 2007-08-13 02:55 am (UTC)And my cousin's half-Chinese, so I've had the same experience a few times. Which also leads to - I spent a lot of my life, teen years at least, basically thinking, "well, I know I couldn't ever subscribe to racist modes of that, I love my aunt and my cousin and I don't think of them as different from me" - but of course it's not that simple.
And now I know a lot more about the topic, but kind of . . . in some ways just enough to know, really, how little I do know.