Interesting story. I run into this sort of thing sometimes from a completely different perspective: big ugly white galoot speaking language (Mandarin) that people aren't expecting me to speak. I'd never had the following experince before, though, to wit: The vast majority of my firm's clients are Chinese (or Americans of Chinese descent, we get both). I was helping a lady this week, and she'd brought her thirteen-year old son along. After ten minutes or so of conversation in Chinese, in a lull in the conversation, her son suddenly blurted out "are you Chinese?". Having seen me, I'm sure you can figure out why I burst out laughing.
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Date: 2003-07-12 09:53 pm (UTC)The vast majority of my firm's clients are Chinese (or Americans of Chinese descent, we get both). I was helping a lady this week, and she'd brought her thirteen-year old son along. After ten minutes or so of conversation in Chinese, in a lull in the conversation, her son suddenly blurted out "are you Chinese?". Having seen me, I'm sure you can figure out why I burst out laughing.
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