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Part V: Same same, but different
Guest Contributor Julia Lin tells us about what it's like to be "same same, but different" (the words of Thai locals spoken to her as she travelled Asia) growing up in Canada and having to answer to the curious questions of her "whereabouts":
When I used to work at Safeway as a cashier, customers often guessed that I was Filipina, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean or one quarter White, depending on who decided to chat with me while I scanned their groceries through. To the rest, I was just Chinese; that is, if the question ever crossed their minds in the first place.
Read the Julia's entire story here.
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