Do I look like a Twinkie?
Jacob Tanes,
Durham, NC.
A stereotype that people call the Asian race is Twinkie because Twinkies are yellow on the outside and white on the inside.
Yellow outside, white inside, adopted Twinkie.
Karen Skillin Rojas
San Francisco, CA
Adopted from Korea at 4 1/2 months old, I was raised in an entirely Caucasian family and community until I went to college. I often struggle with not identifying with my Asian exterior (yellow), which is how the world around me sees me. I find I identify so much more with my Caucasian interior (white), a testament to nuture versus nature I suppose. I, and many others in my situation, call themselves bananas or Twinkies. Can it be classified as a race?!?
Oreo: Black outside, white inside
Lauren,
Silver Spring, MD.
This was a term that was often used to describe me during my middle school days, it always hurtful to hear that people thought that because I was smart and took pride in my education it made me somehow less black.
