"Where have you lived?" is the question directed at this one, not "Where are you from." This one is too many people for that.
"I've lived in Japan for 6 years, Hawaii for 3, Singapore and America for 5."
"Where were you born?"
"Singapore." A blank look.
"Where is that?" the inevitable question.
"Above Australia and between Indonesia." A tired reply, one repeated to countless people.
"Oh." This one can tell in their face if they even know where Australia is. It makes this one angry, how America can talk all about being the best at everything, but how his children don't even know anything outside their quaint, ignorant view of the world. This one hates it.
"What are you?" This one has heard it a couple times. They don't mean it as a mean question, they're talking about my race.
"I'm half Chinese. My grandma thinks she's Swedish, but we don't know."
"Don't know?"
"She was adopted and never wanted to see her birth parents." This one dislikes her grandma too for that. How do you not want to know where you're from?!
"Why do you write like that?"
"Like what?"
"You spelled color wrong! There isn't a u! And what the hell is that word?!" A sigh before this one explains.
"I spell it the British way."
"Why?! Don't you get marked up?"
"I do."
"Then why?!"
"Because. Singapore was a British colony until the 60s. We spelled British English when I was in preschool."
"You spell color with a u?"
"Yup. And that word? That's tons. There's a double n and an e in it."
"Weird..."
"Not as weird as your first step in America."
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Did you know? I've never met a Singaporean kid like me overseas. I've heard of them, but we're from a small island that nobody outside of Singapore really cares about. Which is sad. It's like the America of South East Asia, but instead of white people, you have yellow people. Go figure :P
Yes, I really am Half Chinese, and Half Swedish. Which kinda fits my personality orz.
SINGAPORE ANONS. PLEASE LET ME NOT BE THE ONLY ONE SOB
You never saw that. I dunno what you talk about.
CAPTCHA. WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT PRIMA FOR. I WANT CHICKEN RICE DAMMIT.
Singaporean Chinese
"I've lived in Japan for 6 years, Hawaii for 3, Singapore and America for 5."
"Where were you born?"
"Singapore." A blank look.
"Where is that?" the inevitable question.
"Above Australia and between Indonesia." A tired reply, one repeated to countless people.
"Oh." This one can tell in their face if they even know where Australia is. It makes this one angry, how America can talk all about being the best at everything, but how his children don't even know anything outside their quaint, ignorant view of the world. This one hates it.
"What are you?" This one has heard it a couple times. They don't mean it as a mean question, they're talking about my race.
"I'm half Chinese. My grandma thinks she's Swedish, but we don't know."
"Don't know?"
"She was adopted and never wanted to see her birth parents." This one dislikes her grandma too for that. How do you not want to know where you're from?!
"Why do you write like that?"
"Like what?"
"You spelled color wrong! There isn't a u! And what the hell is that word?!" A sigh before this one explains.
"I spell it the British way."
"Why?! Don't you get marked up?"
"I do."
"Then why?!"
"Because. Singapore was a British colony until the 60s. We spelled British English when I was in preschool."
"You spell color with a u?"
"Yup. And that word? That's tons. There's a double n and an e in it."
"Weird..."
"Not as weird as your first step in America."
---
Did you know? I've never met a Singaporean kid like me overseas. I've heard of them, but we're from a small island that nobody outside of Singapore really cares about. Which is sad. It's like the America of South East Asia, but instead of white people, you have yellow people. Go figure :P
Yes, I really am Half Chinese, and Half Swedish. Which kinda fits my personality orz.
SINGAPORE ANONS. PLEASE LET ME NOT BE THE ONLY ONE SOB
You never saw that. I dunno what you talk about.CAPTCHA. WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT PRIMA FOR. I WANT CHICKEN RICE DAMMIT.