On my first day of exploring Shanghai, I was confronted with many Chinese people approaching me asking me “Where you from?”. This is all good and fun, until like my friend Jill had warned me, the questions continue. They will ask you so many questions, and personal ones!! One of their favorites “Are you married?” After saying no a few times and seeing the look on their faces, I have taken some advice from a book I recently read ‘Eat, Pray, Love.’, simply responding “Not Yet!”. They seem to like this response much more. Wthin a very short time of being in Shanghai I have come to realize that the color of my skin acts as a symbol, heck a huge billboard, that says “I am white, I have money, I have needs!” I always laughed
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