Same race, different continent, new identity.
Albert Toronto Who are the real Americans? Why do we have African Americans, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Korean Americans, but not English Americans, German Americans?
Curiosity about race is only natural.
Keiko McCracken Anacortes, WA I am half white, half Japanese. I can’t count the times someone has asked about my race, commented on my looks...
Assimilation; there is no such thing.
Abel TX Speak English only they say. America is a melting pot; think American, be American. If you assimilate you will fit in and be...
My dialect of English isn’t ignorant.
Erica Parker Southland, MI “Ebonics is retarded and anyone who speaks it is just showing their lack of a working knowledge of the English language.”...
No, I don’t understand your English.
Nidia Rivera, Hyattsville, MD. “NO I don’t understand English”, is a common phrase that I am used to hear almost everyday when I moved to...
You have a cute English accent.
Angel Liu Los Angeles, CA I’m an international student studying in America. Since I was born and raised in China, I have an obvious accent...
You speak such good English! Why?
Natasha Jane Chrisandina USA Is it wrong for an Asian to speak good English? You ask, why do I speak such good English. I ask,...
I’m Hispanic and I speak English
Yvonne Ramirez Dodge City, KS There are times where I have walked up to the register and and the cashier assumes I don’t speak English...
This is an English speaking country
John P. Olathe, KS Selected from Charlotte Seiler’s Social Problems class at JCCC.
Where did you learn your English?
Sameer Belgaumi Ann Arbor, MI Understanding Race Project- University of Michigan I’m a Pakistani-American who grew up in Saudi Arabia. I hear this question so...
Wow, you speak real good English.
Karin Kross Levenstein Austin, TX Korean adoptee, adopted as an infant by white parents. “Are you Chinese? Japanese? What are you then?” Always weighing out...
THE RACE IS IS OUR CENTER
James P. Ayers Ft. Wayne, IN Dear Michele, We enjoyed your Fort Wayne Presentation. My 6 and 5 words in two versions: THE RACE IS...
You speak English better than me.
Anna Lemos Redlands, CA These words were spoken to me by an educator when he learned I was bilingual – I spoke English and Spanish....
Didn’t sound Chinese on phone
Jenny Braintree, MA I used to work at my dad’s Chinese restaurant answering the phone and taking orders. One time a man came in to...
I speak English better than you.
Janette Santos North Quincy, MA I was at the local grocery store mulling over which yogurt to get, when a middle-aged woman came up to...
