White. Wish I had a culture.
Jan Spooner, Tucson, AZ. As a white American, I don’t have a strong feeling of culture. My African American, Jewish, Native American and Hispanic friends...
My wife calls me ethnically flexible.
Paul, Portland, OR. I could talk about this all day. Race, ethnicity, and ancestry fascinate me. The question of who I am has been with...
Ethnically black, environmentally white, increasingly gray.
Lee Stringer Mamaroneck, NY I was born into a place and era in which the aspiration was to assimilate. Of course, once I got a...
“We don’t do ethnic hair here”
Sahra Hassan Minneapolis, MN This was said to me by a hair stylist the minute I walked into a salon. Ironically, my hair was cover...
Your baby: he looks so ethnic.
Jane Smith Hanford, CA Wheeling my infant son in his stroller through the local farmer’s market one Summer morning 23 years ago, this is the...
“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...
Half Jewish. Half WASP. All tribal.
Andrea Jill Berman Rochester, NY Grew up working class Jewish in buffalo NY. a very ethnic city. No melting pot there. people kept their ethnic...
What are you; some can pass?
Quinta Thompson Lafayette, LA I hate that my friends who are biracial, usually nonblack, like to be ethnic when it is convenient and white when...
I’m a stranger in every land.
Jordan Bo Delaware, USA My experiences living in foreign countries have given me a unique worldview, yet those experiences as well as my mixed ethnic...
Republican: Wealth, Racism, Misinformation, and Misdirection.
Jaime F. Galdamez Madera, CA It’s not plain to see out in the open, but those of us of different color and ethnic back grounds,...
