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Hello! not Ni Ha

Originally uploaded by Australian Rozie

So I’m in the library at lunch time and this guy comes up to me and says “Ni Ha?… blah blah mandarin blah blah blah”. And I’m looking at him like “What the?” and then he says to me “Are you Chinese?” I say to him, “No, I’m Australian – gotcha didn’t I?”. Then he goes “But you’re parents were Chinese. Geez, you young people have no sense of humour”. I guess I just had my defences up for some kind of racial slur, I know it’s 2007 but I remember when being politically correct was not an option.