Yellow and Confused: Born in Taiwan, raised in South Africa, and making sense of it all by Ming-Cheau Lin
English | August 25th, 2019 | ISBN: 0795709218 | 172 pages | EPUB | 3.14 MB
'Strangers pulling their eyes slant at me when they walked by. They'd pretend to be Chinese and make fake nasal-pitched noises that they thought passed for an Asian language.' Ming-Cheau Lin's family emigrated from Tainan, Taiwan, to South Africa when she was three years old. Growing up in the '90s, in the largely Afrikaans Bloemfontein, within a small East Asian community, she was always the outsider. Too 'yellow' for the whites, but 'not Asian enough' when she didn't conform to the rules of her first-generation Asian elders.