“Ethnically Ambiguous” shouldn’t prompt guessing games.

Ana Byers
Ashland, OR

It is tiresome, rude and de-humanizing to be stopped by strangers so they can guess “where I am from.” It is even more tiresome to be told that my answer is unacceptable and must be a lie when I reply I am from Washington state.


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