Yes...especially growing up and playing sports. Often being the only girl in a league OR during my time as a collegiate athlete where I was one of a handful of Asian female athletes who were very talented but highly tokenized.
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Or the variation I would hear a lot in high school from the white women who wanted to hook me up with a friend who was "into exotic girls."
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I’ll go on a limb and say all of us
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One time I was sitting at a bar w a white dude friend when a rando white dude sat next to him, leaned over, whispered to him while pointing his finger at me: “hey where did you get THAT?” Idk if that’s “being called exotic” but it was certainly a compliment to my friend

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My Asian ancestry isn't visible as such, so my experience is different, but I guess I'm mixed enough to get that comment sometimes. Often it's more subtly phrased as "you fascinate me." Other times, random strangers ask out of the blue, "Are you Russian?"
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"are you lost? Do you need a place to stay? Are you a nurse? Do you need a green card? It's so good you speak English."
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and by teachers, mentors, guardians, you name it
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it’s a giant red flag -
Yeah absolutely. like an immediate “get away from me” reflex reaction.
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