from The Blue Addictions September 3, 2007...
Ok, I don't look like a typical Filipino. I don't have that characteristic tan or that typical Filipino feature. But I don't look white, for Pete's sake. See, My friend Vanessa (she's Fil-Am) has been reiterating that I look like a white boy! "Not even close, Nesa!" would be my usual refort but she would not even bat an eyelash. She's convinced that somehow, foreign blood is running through my veins, thus giving me caucasian-like features. She probably has this theory of me being separated with my real parents at birth. Thing is I'm pure pinoy and certainly not a white boy!
So what if I look mestizo? A lot of people I know looks mestizo too. Since i was young, I never really thought I look different. Not until I went to the States and get to hang out with kids there. I don't know the hell was up with my cousins but whenever they would introduce me to their friends, they would always make a tiny guessing game. "Guess Jowell's Ethnicity" should be the title of that game because...well, the title speaks for itself.
What a surprise! No one answered "Filipino". They didn't think I looked white but they thought I was Korean. Korean!?! Now, where did that came from? I don't get it.
Although the idea that no one can clearly categorize me under what ethnicity bothers me a little, I get to have little laughs with it too. One time when I was about to order food inside UST, the girl behind the cashier suddenly spoke in English even though she communicated with the customers before me in pure Tagalog. I was like "Why?". And then I realized she've mistaken me for a foreigner or a Fil-Am at least. So I played along. I spoke to her in English and watched her brows meet in desperation to come up with a pure English sentence that goes like this "Ser, du yo layk ketsap? Mayuneys? Chips , ser? Wi hab rapols (Ruffles)."
I know I"m mean but I can't help but to laugh. I probably snorted before leaving the counter. And that happens a lot! Nyahahaha... How about you? Do you think I look like a Filipino? Here's a close-up picture..
KIDDING!
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