An Interview with Dr. Kirk
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Comments
Loved what you said about intuition being easily mistaken for our own biases.
Megan Mendel
2020-09-17 14:12:00 +0000 UTCI am Turkic and Russian on my mother's side, and Irish on my father's side- So I am also Asian/European mix. And also American. Everyone assumes I am just white (as in European) though, and they will sometimes speak against Mongols and Turks or other Asians having no idea they are talking to one. I have even had Asian people talk to me like, "I am Asian you would not get it." Umm... Okay... lol When I tell them ethnic make-up they are very surprised. Because I do not "LOOK" Asian. Basically on looks I did not fit in with Asians, but on a cultural level- because I was almost always around my mother's side of the family- I did not fit in with the white European people. People judge a lot by what they see though. They tend to judge books by their covers, even though we are told we should not. So I was kind of the opposite. I probably fit in slightly more with white people. Until 9-11 and then all people connected to Muslims were and those cultures were treated with extreme suspicion. Thing is I am actually Christian, but most people in my moms family are Muslim (the majority are Kazakhs and Tatars in our family). But we are seen the same by Western perspective for the most part perhaps.
Gökçe
2020-09-17 01:44:34 +0000 UTC
