i have the most beautiful skin tone possible. or, at least that's what i like to tell myself.
you can usually tell what season it is by the color of my skin. back in high school, i would get super dark over the summertime and spend the rest of the year getting my skin back to a golden brown. now, in college, i get really dark during 1st semester with IM football season and spend the rest of the school year trying to ge rid of all the resulting tan lines.
people have always joked about me not looking asian, but i never thought too much about it..until now.
it all started at recweek this past summer. after one of the workshops, we spent some time just lounging around at the rocking chair place behind the chateau. we were all sitting around there with one of the staff workers, jon parker. i don't even remember what we were really talking about, but it was something having to do with cultural identity. jon starts saying, "well, i know you guys are all asian here.."
and then he hesitates, turns to me sitting right next to him, and goes, "..wait..are you...? what are you?"
i was so shocked. i always thought it was just a joke that i didn't really look asian. and then it was kinda a snowball effect.
this semester, i have been invited to the hispanic students association. then this past weekend at retreat, someone told me that i looked more hispanic than asian. and i'm not even that dark right now, relatively speaking. so i don't really know what's going on. i mean, i have nothing against hispanics, and i'm not a big A-Z-N kinda guy, but i'd just like to be confident in my ethnicity.
honestly speaking, i look more asian than hispanic, right?!
(at johanna's request/demand, i have to insert a picture of me with a beanie on, because apparently that accentuates my non-asianness.)
