I miss eating Vindaloo with Dad.
Wilhelmine Taylor, Australia. My father’s family was originally from India, but his mother was Scottish/Danish. People tended to assume he was a white guy with...
Yo! Biologically, race does not exist.
Andrew Nicholls, Australia. I’m from a small town in South Australia that has a very multicultural make-up (11.9% were born overseas, 25% are Australian Aboriginal,...
I Am White Can I Say That
Deb, Australia “Every Country” treated People poorly/ badly/ hurt people since the year dot. Still is happening. Us Western Countries demand racism to stop. Racism...
I’m too mixed to fit in
Matthew Joshua Nunez-Pocot-Reid, Australia. My mother is a Cebuano Filipina, with strong Spanish heritage. And my Father is the prime example of a white Australian....
You’re Indian AND Catholic?! No way!
Josie H Australia I am a Catholic Indian. The middle school I went to was not Catholic, and when I graduated into high school (which...
Where do you really come from?
Blanche Tsetong, Australia. I get this question often. Mostly at work. It never fails to infuriate me, particularly because the question is only ever directed...
Jewish daycare, Catholic college, Hindu wedding
Charles Hirsch Mount Washington, MA I had the wonderful opportunity to grow up in a multicultural community. I attended daycare sponsored by the Jewish Community...
Privilege of being disabled, poor, white
Jane Morris, Australia I have light skin but that doesn’t mean I am immune to struggle, prejudice or difficulty. So many of the social advantages...
Take away skin bag, spirit lives!
Aku Kadogo, teacher South Korea I am an African American woman from Detroit, MI. I have lived in Australia since 1978. My daughter is African...
Australian born Chinese, belongs to neither
JYJL, Australia I have been thinking about my identity. I have spent my life in Australia, my parents are ethnic Chinese and speak little English....
White country, white privilege, yet minority
Emily Carter, Needham, MA. I am un-mistakenly white. I have blonde hair, blue eyes, grew up in a neighbourhood full of other white people, and...
Latin America has light-skinned racists too.
Patricia Linderman, Mexico. I’m the spouse of a US diplomat, and we have lived in four Latin American countries for a total of 11 years....
I am proud to be white!
Aaron Fitzgerald, Australia. It is OK to be white, we are NOT responsible for all the problems that the POC world faces; that the Jewish-run,...
