Friday, 16 April 2010

All Asians Look the Same

Today a valet attendant said something in Chinese to me, and the following conversatione ensued:

Valet: Are you Chinese?
Me: No.
Valet: What are you?
Me: Korean.
Valet: You all look the same, I can't tell you apart. (Shaking his head.)
Me: dumbfounded silence
Valet: Can you tell you apart?
Me: Yes.
Valet: I can't, you all look the same to me.
Me: silence again
Valet: It's like me, I'm Arabic and people either think I'm Mexican or Greek. Did you know I was Arabic?
Me: Yes.
Valet: Really? How?
Me: I heard you speak to your sister.

For some reason I wasn't terribly offended by his remarks and had a 15 minute conversation about where he was from and where he wanted to go.

On a different note, we purchased a couch today. Very modern and gray. Ben picked out the color scheme of our place already.

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