This Post is Kind of Racist

Reblogged from lostnchina:

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I'm ashamed to admit this, but my parents - well, my Mother - after having lived in Canada since the 1970s, has a problem differentiating one Caucasian from the next.

Take, for example, this elderly couple, who were our neighbors in Vancouver (that's B.C., Canada) from the early 1980s till my parents sold their house in the late 1990s.  (I know this isn't really them, or even the right nationality, being that it's "American Gothic" by Grant Wood, but this is how I remember the elderly couple).

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This post was originally published in October 2011.