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Jun 27, 2003 20:05

Did I annoy any of you lovely people with owls? Please accept my apologies. I haven't been functioning correctly all week. I've been making things for other people and being on chat fourteen hours a day. I also haven't been eating properly; it's almost become a sort of afterthought. If only I could do this during the school year ( Read more... )

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anjali_organna June 27 2003, 18:25:12 UTC

I had to laugh reading your post as I can sort of relate. I was adopted from India at ten weeks, and so know absolutely nothing about the place except that it's gorgeous and I want to visit someday. However, as I've gotten older, more and more people from there have come up to me, assuming that I am familiar with the language/culture whatever, and then are completely nonplussed when I'm like, duh... like I'm some sort of idiot.

As for feeling hyper about your appearance, I think that's only natural; being surrounded by a dominant Anglo-Saxon culture will make a person very aware of how they look if its remotely different from the mainstream. It's weird for me in that I'm not constantly aware of the differences; it tends to pop up on me in very weird circumstances.

Meh. Go live in China for a year in college. That's what I'll probably do. Although that will underline all sorts of other differences. Der.

pinkyperiwinkle June 27 2003, 19:06:52 UTC

Love your icon. He is so darling!

pinkyperiwinkle June 27 2003, 19:07:41 UTC

The comment was meant for the Draco icon that went: I smirk because I can.

anjali_organna June 28 2003, 09:05:21 UTC

Thanks!

Totally... pinkyperiwinkle June 27 2003, 19:05:13 UTC

understand where you are coming from. I am a Philippina with some Chinese thrown in for good measure. I can only understand Tagalog if it is spoken to me, but I can't make one coherent sentence unless it is a bad word like motherfucker etc. I was only three when I left ( ... )

pinkyperiwinkle June 27 2003, 19:12:40 UTC

I wanted to say also that whenever I see an asian person in a crowd or on tv/movies, I always stare really hard. And yeah, I feel very
unPhilippino and at the same time unAmerican. My husband who is also Pinoy, is just like me in that regard. We eat white rice and have a vague toehold in that culture/country.

siriaeve June 27 2003, 19:42:44 UTC

I also haven't been eating properly; it's almost become a sort of afterthought.

You should eat! That's not good for you! [/end channelling my mother]

And I think that the identification with a culture while at the same time not being part of it is something a lot of people go through. I don't come from an Irish speaking area of Ireland, so I had to work hard to learn my native language, like most Irish people. Even now, I'm not fully fluent. Native speakers and foreigners have a tendency to be disbelieving and/or condescending to people whose first language is English; it's inferior in the constitution as well ( ... )

kokopoko June 27 2003, 20:09:16 UTC

I love hearing from you. Don't worry.

That threesome was quite the ficlet wasn't it? Very very good and naughty. Write something like that into Bad Faith ok? Thanks.

Up for doing wallpaper based on those images I sent? I have a bar of El Rey chocolate (best in the world) to send you!

Re: eva_c July 2 2003, 04:27:43 UTC

I was away camping for awhile so sorry it took me so long to get back to you. :) Wallpaper would be easy to do - do you want any changes done besides putting the image at your screen resolution? What resolution are you using?