I just don't think it's that useful to have terms that get applied with such a broad stroke to people who have very little in common. In ancient history, it made more sense to say "the Greeks" or "the Romans" (etc.) because travel was so difficult and racial mixing not very widespread and all that. These days there doesn't really have to be a "story" to a racially mixed couple... my brother and his wife met at a bar and she thought he was gay when she first saw him - does that count as a "story"? I find our obsessive need to group ourselves using what I wish were archaic terms very irritating. If there's a club for young women from California who live in New York... awesome. If there's a club for New Yorkers who grew up in the U.S. whose parents emigrated from a third world country... great, sign me up. If there's a club for people who are Asian-American (and there is at my school)... no thank you. Why not? Because I'm not about reinforcing arbitrarily drawn lines. I bet if I went to the Vietnamese Students Association and told them I was half Vietnamese but didn't speak the language, they would welcome me with open arms. Yet my white friend who has studied the language for years, lived there for a period, and plans to move there one day has repeatedly signed up for their email list and mysteriously never gets emails from them.
And Cyn - it's amazing! Have you been on all those dates and to all those parties with me all these years? How do you know exactly what a million people have asked me in my lifetime? BTW, I've been meaning to ask you... I know you live in NYC and grew up in California, but where are you
really from???
