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[quote=Anonymous]@8:09: I get it - and I am not saying it's the best situation - I also said if it makes her feel uncomfortable then don't send her kids there.

But I think she is an adult and may want to wonder - hmm! Why does this make me so uncomfortable.

I have a friend who is from Puerto Rico who gets mistaken for Asian all the time. 
I have a friend who is black but we go to get Peruvian chicken and they speak Spanish to her - she is like - dude - no comprende.

A boy who is from El Salvador said to my friends daughter who is Peruvian - something about food. She was like hey I'm Peruvian - we are all about the squid and raw fish we don't eat that food. How is the kids to know - to him Hispanic is Hispanic.

We are all just learning - nobody is perfect.

People need to just chilll - why not say - Oh - My grandmother was &lt;fill in the blank&gt;. The OP won't even say what the heritage is - just hey "I'm NOT Chinese".

I have been in a school where I was the only white girl - it was brought to my attention by professors - like "yea we got a white girl" (Not really like that - so I could have been sensitive and I did ask one professor did they only accept me because they needed a white girl on their roster - he said - no but it really helps the class room with a different perspective - I was doing computer modeling of drug disposition. The librarian would say - so you want to be a model - I was like - this book is on COMPUTER modeling.)

I am not saying that OP should send their kids to a school if they do not feel comfortable our kids are not social experiiments. But she asked "am I being sensitive" and I frankly think "yes".

I get it sucks being called something you are not or having assumptions made about you. This was 1 teacher from the school.[/quote]

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