Who are you?
A quick update tonight.
We have now been at work for 2 full weeks, we have yet to meet
everyone in the department but still we have met the majority I would say. Last
Thursday while sat in the staff room me, Steve and Chris we were subject to an
attack of sorts. Before I describe it I will describe us first, Me: a handsome
6ft 1 dirty blonde hair and blue/green eyes Steve: a tall 6ft 4-5 dark hair and
blue eyes Chris: 5ft 11 red hair and brown eyes. While sat eating our lunch
some of the staff started to stare and point at us, usually we don’t mind this
however the staring continued for a while and then someone piped up and shouted
‘we can’t tell the difference between you 3 you just look the same’. Now
firstly it is not okay to stare at anyone, secondly it is 100% not okay to tell
3 people that are not related of the same race that they look the same. I
quickly pointed out how different we are, heights hair colour ect, but they
would not drop it and after work a lady came to me and said she needed to talk
to me for some time so she could take in my features. Dude WTF....she just
stared at me for 5 mins while I was just trying to read my bloomin kindle. After this we started to laugh at the
situation more and more as someone wrote down our features to tell us apart and
then looked at me and went ‘Steve?’.
A final quick update. We played a further footy game and one
6-3, I scored 4 goals and Steve got 2 although one was an own goal. We finally
got a swish TV and xbox sorted, got Fifa 13, Assassins creed 3 and Dishonoured
so Sarah has been loving life watching us this weekend. Finally me and Steve
got our first haircuts out here, went okay apart from they gave Steve a fauxhawk
for no apparent reason and made me look like jar head...
Ohh and finally for Halloween our local shopping mall had a
2 day contest for the best Halloween cat...Yes the best dressed up cat! poor
things
Will have more stories by next week I am sure
Ha ha! Love it!
ReplyDeleteIn some ways it's actually kinda reassuring. I consider myself as non-racist as it gets but I truthfully do find it much harder to differentiate features from some regions more than others. This is just the same thing - I wonder what features that we instinctively focus on that makes it easy for some groups of people but hard for others? And by reciprocal, what are the starers looking at that make you more similar?
It does raise a very interesting point maybe I will ask one of mates out here about it when I get a bit more confidence lol
ReplyDeleteBeing an Asian myself, it's funny to think that they can't differentiate the 3 of you. Or perhaps, everyone who doesn't look like them, is the same... :-s
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