Haven't blogged in a long time, so here's a short stupid anecdote about a racially ignorant conversation I had. (Unfortunately, the racially ignorant person was me)

I was eating dinner with a bunch of friends and trying pretty hard to make "get to know you" conversation, as they were fairly new friends. Sitting next to me was a darker skinned asian, with facial features that presented her as a likely Filipina or Thai. I asked her what her ethnicity was, and she told me she was a Filipina.

Several minutes later the topic of favorite foods came up. I reminisced... mmh how I love Thai food.. Lets make a conversation out of this! I looked straight at my friend and earnestly asked "so when you were growing up did your parents teach you how to make Pad Thai?" She looked at me very confused "... Angela.. I'm not Thai"

To this day I don't know what brought me to ask that question. I know that Pad Thai comes from Thailand. And even if she was Thai, why would I ask that? It would be like if someone asked if my parents showed me how to make spring rolls when I was young.

SMH @ myself...