Hey, aren't there
any more categories out there for us confused diasporic folk neither here nor there in between the US and Asia???
My main Asian/American-ness specs:
- I
LOVE hello kitty and she is ALL OVER MY STUFF: phone, purse, wallet, planner
- I
LOVE bubble tea and it's making me FAT!
- MY S/O is not Asian but has been in the past... (NOOO, DIFFERENT partners okay??? NOT the same guy who got a skin graft transplant ala michael jackson)
- I don't own a car -- and in fact
I HATE cars AND driving [yay for public transport, down with the american suburbian dream!!!]
- I get
extremely good grades in school -- oh yeah... I'm a nerd
- I have taken the Asian Studies course at college
- I'm STILL
confused about my cultural identity despite all of those Asian studies classes...
- I cannot dance... yup, it's really embarassing...
- I think
dim sum chicken feet, smoking, and fluorescent lights are GROSS- after living in China for a while, I admit that I sometimes dry my clothes outside my window only IF it's not polluted outside
- ALMOST all of my CD, VCD, and DVDs are bootleg (except for the ones I got through BMG, those supposedly "FREE" ones yeah RIGHT...!!)
- I think I am
an ex-Twinkie who has recently "awoken" -- and I am trying to learn as much as possible about my culture to make up for my (PREVIOUS) lifetime of trying to be white
- Not sure if I want to grow to become Fobulous...
- I definitely
weigh more than 105 lbs and I HATE high heels AND makeup AND I always
smile way too much in public and like colorful (especially ETHNIC) clothes -- so I definitely am NOT a TAB (although my cell phone is on its way to being completely customized and there are definitely sanrio items hanging out in my purse)
- I have Asian friends as well as non-Asian friends [YUP]
- I listen to Asian pop as well as American music [YUP]
- Well, I am
equally UNAWARE of both popular American culture and Asian pop culture
- I speak
perfect English and I am
fluent in my native language (well, that would be ENGLISH but I also speak Chinese fluently after lots of time logged in with those chinese classes in college and time spent in Asia.........)
Help – so what am I???
btw, check out this hilarious music video (Curry-N-Rice Girl)!!
http://www.viknluda.com/foe/video/