At many points in my life I have been mistaken for things I am not.
When I was seventeen years old, I was babysitting a very sweet, very blond infant. She does have dark brown eyes, but when this particular incident took place, she happened to be asleep in her stroller. It was a scorching hot afternoon in the middle of August and Thea and I were out for a walk. She was sleeping in her stroller (as previously stated) and I was strolling along the streets (aka Cross Street) of Depot Town. Suddenly, this random woman came up to me and started giving me what-for because I was a single mother and I was a teenage mother. It was a horrible. After a few minutes of this, I looked at her and said, "Well, at least I didn't have an abortion."
She didn't have much of a response to this and just walked away.
Over the past several years, people have asked me if I was Assyrian, Spanish, Dutch, and various other nationalities. Let's review, kiddos. I'm half-Italian, a quarter-Slovak, and a quarter-mutt. I might be part Dutch, but I am NOT Assyrian or Spanish.
The other day someone asked me if my last name was "Hernandez." Yeah...I'm not Hispanic.
And then last Thursday my Sociology professor asked me if I was Jewish.
Nope...not religiously, not culturally, not all. I am a Catholic Christian, but I am not a Jew of any form.
Also, way too many people are getting engaged right now. So if you're planning on getting engaged in the near future, please wait at least a week. I've had two engagements of good friends in the past four days. So yes, please don't get engaged any time soon.
Donal, I'm not really worried about you.
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2 comments:
Aww, thanks :)
Also, isn't "Assyrian" no longer any kind of nationality whatsoever? I thought it was an ancient sub-ethnicity of Mesopotamians, and now, at least in the U.S., they'd just be called "Middle-Eastern." But hey, you would know better than I, being Dutch/Pakistani and all.
I wondered the same thing, having done a paper on the Assyrian empire last year. It seemed to me as if the empire collapsed fairly soon after Xerxes tried to conquer Greece and failed. It would be kind of cool to be Assyrian, but I know you're not. Maybe I am though...;)
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