Think back...when was the last time you were mistaken for someone else? Yesterday at the supermarket? Shopping at your local Target store? or even the playground?
One would think - "Maybe once a year or so right?" Nope not me.
I am forever burdened with being mistaken for "The Nanny"! Now think people - if I'm Asian and I marry a Caucasion man....our kids might actually be light skinned & dark skinned....wait for it.....oooohhhh ahhhhh!
Here is some "Playground Etiquette 101" for the socially challenged.
Comments from other Playground Moms & Random people while shopping: (yes these are all true!)
Playground Mom: "Ohh she's soo cute! She must look just like her mother"
#1 It is rude to assume because our skin tone is different I'm not the mother..duhh
Playground Mom: "Does her Mother know you put her in timeout like that?"
#2 As a parent I have a right to give a timeout to my child in public.....yes I said public - how else will they learn?
Playground Mom tries to help my child climb the slide while ignoring me when I say she can do it by herself & asking "Where's your mommy sweetheart?"
#3 As a parent you should know better than to grab any kids arm let alone assume I'm not the mother. BTW it really embarrassed the lady when my daughter screamed "Mommy Mommy Stranger!" and ran to me....hahahahah
Target Lady in the toy isle: "Oh do her parents work alot? They must give you a big allowance to take her shopping"
#4 Wow really? Did I really just hear that come out of your mouth?
Do we really live in such a world that embrasses such stereo typing....
Remember before you judge someone & open your mouth and say something stupid,
consider this - one is not a "Nanny" because of her nationality...one is a Nanny because she cares for children when they can not be cared for.
If you must...Stereo Type this -
Sonia Maria Sotomayor is the first Puerto Rican woman to serve as a U.S. Circuit Court judge and first Hispanic nominated to the Supreme Court. She is the most experienced candidate nominated in the last 100 years.
Maya Angelou
A world famous African -American poet, author, historian singer and civil rights activist.
Maya Lin - Architect, designer of the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, AL, and, of course, the career-launching Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, which she designed as a student at Yale, and which has become one of the most visited sites in Washington, D.C.
Yuri Kochiyama - After her experience of the WWII internment camps, Kochiyama was primed for an activist career in the growing Civil Rights movement when she and her family moved to Harlem in the early 60s.
