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[quote=Anonymous]Because it is exhausting and obnoxious when strangers try to create a bond with you based on their perceptions about your culture. If you are a minority, this is not infrequent. I am biracial but often assumed to be Latina. The number of non Spanish speaking people who try to speak to me in Spanglish is astounding. It is based on an assumption they make based on my appearance. And as for the Asian PPs story, 17:15 can you seriously not understand how that is bothersome? They asked him both about Chinese food and about having a Japanese TV! It's so clueless. People of color get sick of it.

Anyway, I clicked on the thread because I am married to a white man. He has come a long way towards understanding issues of race and privilege, but it has been a steep learning curve at times. And there are still issues- just the other day I made an off-hand comment about the lack of blacks in the Aaron Hernandez jury and he said that sometimes I see things as racial and he just doesn't see it. This is true and honest and not inherently bad but it is there. I think one of the major things is that for me (and I think many other people of color), race is a part of my daily life. This just isn't true for white people.[/quote]

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