The Brown Girl

This girl is having serious problem. People have this experience every where in this world, white people in Asia, Asian people in the west, even Asian people in other Asian countries.... Maybe I am not that sensitive because I don't feel that way, at all.


"Being BROWN GIRL is trying to reinvent yourself to escape your ugly culture. Being BROWN GIRL is having nice white people constantly mispronounce your name. Being BROWN GIRL is dreading a new teacher reaching your name on the register whilst your class mates giggle in anticipation at what the teacher will say. Being BROWN GIRL is shortening your name down to something more Western so that your peers don’t see you as foreign as you are. Being BROWN GIRL is skipping language classes, denying your heritage to fit in. Being BROWN GIRL is keeping your religion a secret then feeling shame when your peers discover you’re Muslim. Being BROWN GIRL is having your period and not being able to do water activities on a school trip because you can't use a tampon, having to tell your peers you're afraid of water instead, being called a coward when really the cowards are those who teach children menstruation should be secretive. Being BROWN GIRL is laughing with your peers when they make fun of your parents’ accents, and you feel guilt burning inside."