practically unsinkable (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sluttering) wrote,@ 2008-09-13 16:16:00 |
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o glorious nippon!
my parents and i went out to lunch for my mother's birthday today.
in the waiting area of the restaurant, a slack-jawed girl in the vile clutches of pubescence who is staring at us with unabashed enthusiasm finally turns to my mother and smiles at us.
"konnichiwa!"
her parents bestow us with benign grins as if their daughter has broken down the racial glass ceiling with one knowledgeable greeting. a veritable u.s. diplomat in a pink tinkerbell t-shirt. how kind and worldly of her to greet the little japanese family in their native tongue!
at the same time i respond incredulously, "are you kidding me?" my parents are beaming back at her family politely and nodding like subservient cretins. i'm surprised they didn't offer to make her some eggrolls or do her taxes. way to take a step back for your race, mom and dad.
my parents and i went out to lunch for my mother's birthday today.
in the waiting area of the restaurant, a slack-jawed girl in the vile clutches of pubescence who is staring at us with unabashed enthusiasm finally turns to my mother and smiles at us.
"konnichiwa!"
her parents bestow us with benign grins as if their daughter has broken down the racial glass ceiling with one knowledgeable greeting. a veritable u.s. diplomat in a pink tinkerbell t-shirt. how kind and worldly of her to greet the little japanese family in their native tongue!
at the same time i respond incredulously, "are you kidding me?" my parents are beaming back at her family politely and nodding like subservient cretins. i'm surprised they didn't offer to make her some eggrolls or do her taxes. way to take a step back for your race, mom and dad.
