11-23-2017, 02:17 AM
Personally,
As a kid in high school, I used to lie about my race and tell people that I was Indian. I straightened my hair, dyed it black and would wear salwar kameez to further convince people. I picked Indian because my god family is Indian and I believed that I would be treated better in high school if kids thought I was Indian and not black.
I am half black, half German, and I've told people that I am literally everything under the sun that I could pass for. I believed that being black meant you'd be "ghetto", "loud", "angry"... I didn't like that, so I would lie about my ethnicity and lo and behold! People treated me differently.
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