I am going to be out of town doing family stuff from tomorrow to Sunday, so hopefully you won’t miss me too much (hopefully you have better things to do over the holidays than read my banality, anyway!). Merry Christmas or whatever you celebrate or don’t celebrate!
Here is an interesting article about a black girl in China; or, rather, a Chinese girl who happens to be half-black.
I knew there were different ethnic groups in China (I didn’t know there were that many!) but in the end, they’re all, well, Asian. It must be difficult for a girl who looks so different. And it can’t help when no one will tell her the truth.
“She used to wonder why she had black skin,” said one classmate. “We thought about this question together and decided to tell her it’s because she likes dark chocolate. So her skin turned darker gradually.”
Another classmate weighed in, “We said it’s because she used to drink too much soy sauce.”
Even Lou Jing’s maternal grandmother admitted in a taped interview, “I told Lou Jing she was black because her mom was not very well and had to take Chinese medicine.”
I mean, really? Like she wasn’t going to find out eventually?Way to make her think being biracial is something to be ashamed of…
At least the story has a pretty happy ending. Go Lou Jing!
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