Did anyone here have a say in your ethnic background? Did you have a conversation with your parents before your own birth?
I'll go ahead and say a collective NO for everyone here.
Seriously though, I'll NEVER EVER understand how someone can say another person is inferior for being a certain race. We do not get to choose WHAT we are, but we can choose WHO we are. You wanna be a jerkface...you chose to be so. You wanna be a nice, decent person, you chose that. But, nobody can choose to be a particular race. No Michael Jackson jokes here, okay.
It saddens me when people like HejiraNYC say they were ashamed of being Asian. Nothing is wrong with being Asian or black or white or Hispanic, etc. I don't like to say I'm a white person, because I literally am not white. I am not an albino person. I have a varied background, with Italian, Irish, German and Native American descent. I know what white means, but I hate being called a white person. I'm a HUMAN BEING.
A friend of mine asked me once how I felt going into a Middle Eastern restaurant. I said "What do you mean?" and he asked "Do you feel anger towards the people who work here because of 9/11?" I said "Why would I feel anger towards people I don't know? They didn't do anything. They are making my meal."
I was taught to love everyone and not judge. I wish that everyone in the world were taught that as well.
