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everybody-hit-the-pyro-cue · 4 months ago

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Volunteered today and this grandma was talking to me as we bagged vegetables and she like squinted at me and was like. "So. What's your background" and perhaps upon seeing the lost look on my face she clarified with "Your ethnicity I mean. Because you're obviously not whole caucasian"

I'm not obviously not whole caucasian I pass for white pretty easily but thank you random grandmother for reaffirming I have a whole half of my dna from a southern chinese person lmao

#anyway. was thinking about this today #one of her grandsons turned out to be my old biology teacher's intern also which was fun #he showed up later and told me my labs were very good #which made me happy yay academic validation even though it means nothing now sjasjhfajsd #cue rambles #also her family was from poland so when she asked what flavor of white I was we were able to bond over that aswell #it was an interesting experience I don't interact with people from that generation a lot but old people can be very fun to talk to

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