re: #332 prairiefire

My daughter’s good friend was giving another kid heck because this kid said “Of course she plays violin well, she’s asian.” My daughter’s friend said “That’s Racist! Besides, you are not even Asian.” My daughter said “well, i do have this Asiatic fold in my eye”, her friend said “I never noticed that!”
My daughter is 1/2 Japanese.

I’ve met folks with that mix who look very Asian, and some who look very European, and some who really do look mixed. It seems to be something of a crapshoot which genes take lead.

One of my students a couple of years ago asked me “Do you believe I’m half white?” because some of her friends didn’t. I said “Yeah, hon, I do, because I met your mom at Parent’s Night, and she looks exactly like you.” But mom tells me that people rarely say that her daughter looks like her, because she has the Japanese side’s coloring and eye shape.