5) my ethnicity

This is almost gonna be like a part two of my previous post about living life the way I want. I suppose if you think about it...all my posts pretty much link in someway or another...anyways best be moving on to what I wanna say before I forget :)

From a very young age your parents and your surroundings shape who you are to become...for me it was to be an Asian living on the south coast...odd combination if you ask me...

On the outside, yes, I have thick black hair, dark brown eyes and tanned skinned...but that's only a fraction of my identity...who I really am lies in my personality...

Our identities are not just our physical appearance though, nor are our identities just our personality...but our identity is a combination of both along with your family, friends, locality and what you do...

Being 'Asian' in appearance I've been subject to much racial discrimination...My 'friends' joke about it and at first it doesn't bother me...then when racial comments reoccur it gets annoying, then frustrating...till your at the breaking point...

Living down on the south coast i'd like to think I'm different from the 'stereotypical Asians'...but in reality there's no such thing as a 'stereotypical Asian'... because there is no such things as an 'Asian'...there are 'Chinese', 'Vietnamese', 'Japanese', 'Taiwanese', 'Korean' the lists goes on...but I definitely know that theres no country called Asia, there's a continent though...so people need to stop using such a general and ignorant term...You don't here us calling Arabs - middle easterners...

Yes i understand you can't tell because "we all look alike" clearly some of you need to get your eye's checked...I was a pretty ignorant child myself...and have changed a lot since my younger years...and i'm not just talking about puberty...I'm talking about the way in which I talk, act, dress and think...all shaped from life's experiences...and i'm still changing, my ideas are still developing and my skills widening...

But i'm also getting past all this racial discrimination..and although at times it gets me down...being 'different'...

but this is who I am...

I've learned to embrace my 'Asian pride' and my 'Aussie pride'...

make it apart of my own identity...

this is me...and i wouldn't have it any other way.