Mistaken identities
No, I'm not tanned (no offense to anyone). I dunno, people just assumes I'm not Chinese.
Things got a little more complicated when I reached University. With the increase in nationalities in tertiery education, we can only expect more mistaken identities.
Thai-Chinese, Filipino-Chinese, Japanese-Thai (HUH?!), Vietnamese-Chinese, Indonesian-Chinese. Give me a couple more, it will be what my boss says "You have the entire Southeast Asia right on your face". Quite true. I think the most ridiculous one was Japanese-Thai. Like seriously?! Which girl with a hint of Japanese blood talks as loud as me. HAHA.
I got mistaken as someone's Thai friend in school. If I go for career talks alone, I get mistaken as the lonely exchange student (oh so many times). I get chatted up in Thai when I was in Bangkok where stall-holders speak to me in Thai as well (thinking I could help translate to the ang moh in front of me. Sorry I was equally helpless..Haha) So I think it's proven I probably looked like I belonged there. I thought all these would not happen when I went over to Beijing for internship last year. It turned out that they thought I was from XinJiang -_-. Well until they heard me speak. And I thought going to Land of Chinese would mean no more mistaken identities. So wrong.
The courier man came over just now. Since my senior wasn't around, I went to check if the documents were right.
Courier Man: "You Thai-Chinese?"
Me: "Erm no. PURE Chinese."
Courier Man: "Singaporean?"
Me: "Yea, PURE Singaporean Chinese."
Courier Man: "OH. Don't look like."
Me: "Oh..common la.."
I should go learn Thai. I think I can bluff a few people. HAHA
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