I am a cultural appropriator. I think I’m a white person from Colorado. I talk like one in the peculiarly flat, uninflected accent of the westernmost mid-west.
I make white cultural references to things like Steve Gutenberg and Fiona Apple, and I developed a friend group comprised almost exclusively of white, middle-class people of similar educational backgrounds.
I was born in Golden, CO, in the early seventies, and because the examples of my own race presented to me in the ruling culture were to a one humiliating and ridiculous, I hated that others saw me as Chinese.
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