thank you liz!
ok.. now that i've got an excuse to write about it---here's something about Japan (a question taken from facebook):
Were the people starring at you (another words were you the only white person) all the time, and did they ever do anything weird to you? (such as chuck oranges at you...or...whatever)
occasionally someone would stare at me on the train, when there was nothing better to do. andddd i was probably staring at them first. otherwise, [at the places we went] people were in too much of hurry to see me, and if they did, they didn't stare and/or chuck oranges? but here's a little note: i was indeed, pretty much, the only white girl in the entire country! besides acacia's father and the superoccasional tourist (of the Caucasian race), we couldn't find much diversity, which was weird. but it wasn't like seeing a white person was foreign to them/they didn't like it (hence the lack of orange chucking?). also im hugely generalizing. it's not like i can speak for everyone who lives there.
however: the last day we were there, we all decided to wear some cute-ass skirts and go shopping. we were stared at then (sonia and i). and it was awkward and creepy and mostly confidence blasting. but they weren't staring (and admittingly laughing) at us because of our skin color, but because we were wearing sneakers with our skirts (converse). they don't really do that in japan, generally, i guess...
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Very nice, thanks for the story. And I tried my best not to sound racist when I asked (typed?) the question.
haha i don't think you did
ummmmmmmm i think there was a misunderstanding with the "racial profiling" note at the end!! i don't know what you guys took it as but i was referring to sonia getting repeatedly searched at the airport not whatever y'all are thinking...?
Where was the part about racial profiling? And my dad is always the one to be randomly searched at the airport as well because he is generally creepy and turkish? But sorry Sonia I bet that was super awkward!
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