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Column: Lost within identification

"How do you identify when you are mixed?" asks Gargoyle reporter Sindha Agha. "This is a problem I have always dealt with. When people first meet me, they normally assume that I'm Caucasian and not mixed — this is because of my pale skin and brown hair." Read on as Sindha wrestles with the question of identity in a society where cultural and ethnic distinctions blur more often than not.

Lost within identification

How do you identify when you are mixed? This is a problem I have always dealt with. When people first meet me, they normally assume that I’m Caucasian and not mixed…this is because of my pale skin and brown hair. Occasionally people will remark that I have “very Indian features”, but I’ve also been more incorrectly mistaken for being Latina and also Greek.

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