Tuesday, July 26, 2011

I'm a tourist I guess

My little L is starting to consciously differentiate between races these days. She's six now, so it's normal. We can differentiate between Ugandans, Indians and all white males with a beer are Russians. The kids are halfway scared of Russians yet on the other hand, their Grandpa looks like a Russian (as in, he's old, white, male and balding) and they love him, so the white male thing they're still a little confused on :)

We were taking our pack walk the other day and a van full of tourists went by.

Ella: "There's a bunch of people like you!"
Me: "Wow, those are a lot of tourists!"
Ella: "Oh. Are you a tourist?"

Ha ha! Might have to introduce the word "Caucasian" or the kids will get really confused when we're the tourists in Canada next year! We've still to find an appropriate word to describe a half Ugandan, half CAUCASIAN/Tourist person - so far all we've come up with is "like James" whose our little half and half friend :)

We've also started "judging" people by their accents, too, to figure out their nationality :) That's actually pretty fun! We focus more on nationality than race. And if we're stumped, all black people are Ugandans and all white people are tourists :)


What you'd call a person like this I'm really not sure! Flower Child perhaps?

1 comments:

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