stop calling me TURKEY!!

I am quite bothered these days with the nickname “Turkey” which my dorm mates gave me since they knew I have one fourth Greece blood( in their logic there is no a big different between Turkey and Greece cos they are near in geography), and they call me that in English so that they can make people associate with turkey(animal), and this is what they want!! I quite dislike let my classmates know anything about my family, once they know u are mix-blood, they’d like show u a big surprised face and ask u thousands of weird questions, and I hate all of these.

Thankfully my appearance is almost the same with most Chinese, so I didn’t meet too many troubles in university, but my poor cousin isn’t so luckily for her exotic face^_^, she can lie that her brown hair is dyed, but how can she explain her amber eyes!@_@ And she studies at a foreign language college(her major is Japanese), so u know, tons of people thought she was foreigner and talk to her in English(PS: her English is incredibly bad!!^_^)

In nowadays, foreigners or mix-bloods are quite welcome in China, everybody get u a big smile even though u are just a stranger, and in most times u can enjoy a special treatment(though I don’t think it’ll be enjoyable sometimes^_^), I’ll give an example: when my parents and I come to a restaurant for a dinner, the servant will come to us(to my mum accurately just because she looks more “foreign”) quickly, and talk to me mum in English with a gross smile on her face, how could u know she is English-speaker??? I always think of this question that why Chinese people instantly regard a foreigner that they meet firstly as American or Briton, that’s ridiculous!! And my conclusion is there is plenty of people get short sight!

Then I’ld like to let u know some happened decades ago…Actually, my mum’s family has suffered a lot because of their foreign blood!! My grandma is Greek, but she is born in Izmir, a city placed at Turkey which have belonged to Greece once, then her family move to China for some reason, she is quite tall, about 1.68m, and she is blonde, and this triggered a lot of problems during the period of culture revolution in China(can’t say too much^_^) , and I have two uncles, they met many hostilities just because they are half white, peers laughed at them and treated them badly, my mum and my aunt’s situation was also tough!! They even need to wear a big hat at the time for hiding their fair hair…

So as u see, there is not always happy to be a foreigner, sometime it really affects your life in a bad way, my grandma still gives a deep love to her homeland though she never has been there, she named all her children with a special relationship about Greece.〔like my mum’s given name is Aegean〕She has told me her biggest dream this life is going back to see her hometown, and I do hope I can help her make the dream comes true!!Sweet,huh?^_^