It Doesn’t Even Faze Me
I’m white and lived in China and Japan. I am conversant in Mandarin, fluent in Japanese. People assume I can’t understand them so often it doesn’t even faze me anymore.
The funniest time might have been when I was on the subway reading a French magazine and the couple standing behind me were chatting about whether it was Spanish or French and whether I was American, English, or German because I didn’t look Spanish or French.
I put away the French magazine and pulled out a Japanese one. The girl shrieked like a dolphin.
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