Who's a twinky?

Effulgent
Sun, 08 May 2005 09:14:08 +0000

Everyone calls me a faded twinkie. = (

I’m Vietnamese, but I have brown (not the typical Asian dark kind) hair and fair peachy skin.

I used to live in an all Asian/Mexican town in Los Angeles. Even then, I was called the twinkie because my best friend was the whitest Asian girl (she’s white, and the practically the only Chinese girl in school who could not speak a word of Chinese, but she speaks English and French).

Now I live in Orlando, and I can’t stand the Asian kids at my school. They’re either ghetto-fabulous or academically obsessed, or both. There are a few exceptions, of course.

I don’t like being called a twinkie 'cos it feels like I’m forsaking my race to be more American.

But I can’t help that my parents are purely atypical. My mom stepped right out of the Vogue (magazine) world, very fashion-concious and her favorite music is SOUL. I find that soooo weird.

My dad is your typical southern Republican, except he’s Vietnamese. He drives an SUV, wears patriotic stuff all the time, listens to country music, eats southern food (like fried chicken, corn, etc. etc.) more than anything else, and thinks Bush is awesome. How many Viets do you know that like Bush?!

And they’re both immigrants.

So, naturally, I’m a twinkie.

And I hate Asian food.