Foreigners

[Scott Nelson]

You're hot, Ms. Errata. Got any more pics of yourself?

[Errata]

You're hot, Ms. Errata. Got any more pics of yourself?

Well bless your heart, that's sweet. But a: I'm not hot, I clean up tolerably well, but I live most of my life in jeans and covered in mystery chemicals. b: not the point of the posting.

But to wrap this up:

my first friend is the reason why it never occurred to me to hate Muslims. We grew up together. She is Persian, from Iran. Her father was the Shah's cardiologist, and he was in France with the Shah when she was born. He has a death sentence on his head. She has gone home a few times to try and get relatives out.

The second photo is me, a half Scot Half Russian Jew mutt. The woman with me is South African, first generation American.

The last photo is from L-R
-Half French Half Somali. Black Somali. Somali citizen. According to whatever unwritten rules (or written ones) around here, that makes her black. Talk about passing...
-Irish, Irish and US citizen.
-Me again, mutt. (it was the early 90s, don't judge)
-English, First generation American, given an Irish name that no one can explain.
-English/French, British Citizen. Not surprising since London is the 8th largest French city
-Spanish, Spanish citizen
-Ukrainian, Ukrainian citizen, never got American citizenship but got German citizenship when she moved there a few years ago.

hmm. I said four mutts. I should have said three.

The Jews are me, the South African, The Spaniard and the Ukrainian. Of us four, the only one who has the stereotypical look even a little is the Ukrainian. Except the Irish guy who gets asked if he's Jewish all the time. He's not.

The Ukrainian looks Italian, the Irishman looks French, maybe Spanish, the Spaniard looks English, I look Irish, and the "black" girl looks white. The description of a stereotypical Jew would most likely fit the Persian or the Irishman. Possibly the Ukrainian. This is my point. "Looking Jewish" is a matter of features, not a matter of fact. If you only look at the Jews, you will see the rest of us Jews in these photos as a waste of time. And you would be right. But if someone said they saw a Jew, don't look at me. Look at the Persian Muslim, The atheist Irishman, and the Ukrainian Jew. Because your typical guy who saw "a Jew" saw one of them.

[Fleetwood Mac]

Guess the girl in the group photo wearing khakis and a white shirt, and I will absolutely send you 10 bucks.

Right, let's organise this properly.

Would odds would you give me for betting she's human? I understand that it must be shorter odds than betting on her nationality, but if you can give me 3-1 on I'll have a couple of hundred quid on it.

[GUT]

G'Day Errata

Don't you know any W.A.S.P.'s?

[Errata]

G'Day Errata

Don't you know any W.A.S.P.'s?

Good god I live in Tennessee. It's actually something of a miracle that these pictures only had a couple of wasps in them. I worked in a mall for three years that had one other Jew and three black people as employees. The other 500 or so I'm guessing were just marched off a country club golf course and into retail labor camps. I live in a place where people say (hand to god) "I didn't know there WERE still Jews. I thought you guys died out after Jesus". And yet they support Israel, so I have no idea what they think is going on over there.

Yeah I know WASPs. I'm marrying one, my sister married one. You might say I'm surrounded. The United Nations that is these photographs were selected because the people in them were by and large not American. I've had more than 8 friends.

[GUT]

G'Day Errata

More than 8 friends! I have never even met eight people.