I know how you feel.
Serious mode /on
I've always felt a special bond towards ethnic minorities and natives of the world. When I visited Canada, I learned of a special shared history between the Chinese and the First Nations. I was also surprised at the existence of marriages between the different Canadian natives and Chinese. Do note that in Canada and the Northern parts of the US, many native Americans look Asian and completely different from Mexicans. They look like you, like me. It was there that I learned of a tolerance and warmth I never experienced anywhere else. I learned Inuits live in some of the coldest weather but they have a warmth that just radiates and you forget all about the cold. They are not that different from the Chinese of the Northeast. I learned that First Nations Canadians, and almost they alone whole heartedly welcomed and looked forward to Chinese immigrants (it's the thought that counts). Those experiences changed my life completely and I found myself listening to their hearts' cry (and there is a lot). I'll say it now, tomorrow and till the day I die, the First Nations, the Inuit and Canadian Aboriginals are my favorite "native" Canadians bar none.
I promised myself never to talk over an ethnic minority. That's why I never argue with a Tibetan (or any ethnic minority) and tell him/her how he/she should feel. Sure, I might disagree and voice out my perspective but I'd refrain from mocking them.
I have friends from Mizoram (I don't want to call it a part of India as much as you so I won't). I have Chin friends from Myanmar. So I learned that both people are one and the same. These same Mizo/Chin friends told me that their ancestors came from China without a drop of shame that's why we look alike and well, I'm very flattered.
Good looking people
Very welcoming too. Hope if more of us meet, Chinese can double the hospitality shown.
Her nationality is irrelevant to me. I'd buy the worms right there and I won't be a stranger.
Either way, it's quite sad how the Indian Government is treating them and I wished the Chinese Government would step in and help out minority siblings around the world.
Sino-Tibetans around the world are suffering and have suffered enough.
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