This week’s guest post came from Alice Zindagi, where she talks about her love for Asian culture and how she met her “Mr. Right.” She says: You wouldn’t know it if you looked at me, but I was born in the heart of Birmingham. In the 1980s and 1990s, the UAB hospital was one of the leading organ transplant and burn centers in the country. Doctors and engineers flooded in from all over the world, most of them fleeing oppressive regimes or economic downturns in various parts of Asia. Birmingham, as it turned out, had developed thriving Chinese and Indian communities in the neighborhoods surrounding UAB. For years I was the only white kid in my class. My classmates, my friends, my neighbors, my friend’s mom who I called mom, my first crush, my entire world were Asians. I was treated no differently than their sons and daughters, raised like a strangely light-skinned Asian girl. My mother encouraged it, rationalizing that China and Taiwan were quickly becoming world powers and it might not be a bad idea to have a daughter “influenced” by the cultures. She fully accepted everything that brought with it, including my fascination with Daoming Si and Huaze [...]
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