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I am white but ethnically I'm kind of a "mutt." My mom is Russian, Polish, Austrian, and Ashkenazi Jewish. My dad is Italian, English, German, and part "unknown" because that person was abandoned as an infant and subsequently adopted by a Quaker family. What I "identify" as in everyday life depends on who's asking. If I'm around Jews, I'm Jewish. If I'm passing by some skinheads on the street, it would be wise to identify as something else, if push comes to shove. See, none of this is technically lying. It's in the family tree, but that doesn't mean I have to subject people to listening to the entire history of my bloodline.

What's strange is that on multiple occasions other people have mistaken me for another race. I do not know why this happens. Once a girl thought I was an American Indian because I was "quiet." (Yay, random stereotypes.) Another boy asked me if I was actually white because I have very dark brown hair, and he seemed to think that white people couldn't have dark hair. The funniest/weirdest/most pathetic thing of all was when a student once asked me if I was from Nova Scotia, which she thought was in Asia. (lol wut)

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