While neither Puerto Rico nor Iranian, I can totally get the gist of this article.
I mean, I'm pretty light skinned, but you can obviously tell I'm not full Anglo. And it bugs me to fill out forms as "white" when I sure the hell aren't getting the full white boy treatment in this world. I've got a chip on my shoulder for sure, but I didn't put it there myself.
Or, as the article puts it:
"When I was applying for college, I actually looked for the box to mark Iranian," he muses, "and I went to my counselor and I said, 'There's no Iranian box' and they go, 'Well, you're white.' I go, 'What do you mean I'm white?' I took all the insults growing up -- camel jockey, towel head, all this other stuff -- and all I had to say was, 'Dude, I'm white!'"
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