My boyfriend’s 4-year-old-nephew, J*, seems to have a little identity crisis going on which has been going on for a while. HE SEEMS TO THINK HE’S BLACK! The thing is that he is Vietnamese. This started when I first got my Wii and a friend (who is brown) made his Mii character named Amaan’s Ass. Now J* got excited when he saw Amaan’s Ass and insisted on choosing him everytime he played a game. Soon enough, he made his first Mii character, and no surprise, IT WAS BLACK.
… and then he made a dozen more, and they were all black.
Apparently they do… 8)
Today I was watching him play Playground Wii (which is his favorite game at the moment), and I asked him which character he was and he replied, “I’m the black guy.” Later, I asked him, “why do you like black people so much, are they cooler than Asians or something?” He answered “yes” in a very matter-of-fact way and then added, “I’m cool, so I’m black too!!”
Hmm.. don’t ask me how this got embedded in his head because I don’t know and I assure you that I have nothing much to do with it.
Edit – I should mention that he’s only 4-years-old. And he doesn’t act like he’s black (I think his mom will kill him).
And today, D* said this to me (he was in fact bragging):
Auntie Katy, guess what? I’m 6-years-old and I have MSN!!
Oh god, soon I’m going to start seeing him on some played-out community like VancouverXchange or something. Sometimes it’s best to keep kids illiterate until they are 16 or so, just so they stay off those things. Just kidding.
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