I know this post is old but I really wanted to comment on your "exotic Asian" status over there. I guess that is what Cleo (or even the other white students) feel like when they're in China. I remember one woman was just like "you are the first black person I've ever seen! Can I take a picture with you?" to Cleo and she was pretty speechless as well, a rare occasion I might add :P
Some mothers also asked a fellow white student if her kids could take a picture with him! But the pic turned out adorable. Remind me to show it to you later. Except he said that it was very awkward for him.
Anyway, my point is that I still haven't experienced this status of being actually in the minority, ethnically. Despite actually being an ethnic minority...funny how that goes. I kinda wanna try it out.
My sympathies on your bleak selection of SC students btw. I guess the perk of going to a non-western country like China is that everybody on the trip is bound to be more open-minded about the different cultural ways. Hope you make some better friends and that you are visited often. I wish I could come too!
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Some mothers also asked a fellow white student if her kids could take a picture with him! But the pic turned out adorable. Remind me to show it to you later. Except he said that it was very awkward for him.
Anyway, my point is that I still haven't experienced this status of being actually in the minority, ethnically. Despite actually being an ethnic minority...funny how that goes. I kinda wanna try it out.
My sympathies on your bleak selection of SC students btw. I guess the perk of going to a non-western country like China is that everybody on the trip is bound to be more open-minded about the different cultural ways. Hope you make some better friends and that you are visited often. I wish I could come too!
and um....
*raises hand for meme 2*
-_-