No doubt I've been lazy when it comes to blogging, as with late, I just spend time going on Facebook, FMyLife.com, and NotAlwaysRight.com when I use my computer. Oh, did I forget to mention Netflix's Instant Watch feature? That plus my pooch Sniffles has me completely entertained. Speaking of Sniffles, he's bitten through a MAC concealer, and destroyed the handles of a couple brushes. I'm thinking of just taping the handles up as the hair part isn't damaged. One was just thoroughly licked by him.
Anyhow, I've finally opened up my Google Reader, and of course, I have over 1000 posts to get through. EEK? I clicked "Marked as Read" on most of them, but faithly went through a couple. One of them is Angry Asian Man. Sometimes I wonder if I was crazy when it comes to seeing racism. Am I overly sensitive? For most of high school, I seriously thought I was as I seemed to be the only person with my views. Anyhow, I love AAM - I read it more faithfully than I read some beauty blogs.
AAM features a Reader of the Week section, and in the interview, AAM asks, "What makes you angry?"Â This week's Reader, Ed Lin, described an incidence that *gasp* has also happened to me!
"One of the most infuriating episodes of my life was when I was taking a class on John Milton at Barnard and the old white female professor called me into her office to tell me that I had made mistakes in my paper "that a native English speaker wouldn't have made." She asked where I was from and I said I was born here. She quickly interjected, "Well, your parents weren't!" I couldn't believe that I was sitting there talking with someone who, despite our lengthy and rather pointed conversation, had merely made a visual check and labeled me as an illiterate. Later on in the year she complimented me on another paper I had written, but asked me, "Did you get help on it?" I told Columbia students about this incident at a reading last year, and all these students came up to me afterwards with similar stories. I can't believe such idiocy is still going on!"
Yep, that happened to me in high school. My 10th grade teacher made a huge deal on something or another, and remarked to the entire class that I have a problem that many non-native English speakers have. At the time I was completely surprised - I was an honors English student AND I've been enrolled in an afterschool English tutoring program since I was 11. On top of that, English IS the only language that I have complete control over.
Now thinking back, that was such a racist and ignorant remark my teacher made. I heard she's retired, or at least I hope she has retired. She never liked my writing, and is probably a reason why I went into Science to avoid writing papers. Isn't it awful how one teacher, one racist teacher, could sway your career in one direction because she made you think you had no talent in that topic?
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