A teacher seriously asked me if I was going to have an arranged marriage. Not only is that beyond annoying, I don’t think it is appropriate coming from a teacher either. It became such a joke in our class that my friends, who are East Asian, started joking and telling her that girls get married when they’re 15 in their countries. And even though I didn’t think I could have a lower opinion of her after that, she made it happen when she really believed what they were saying. Personally, I just find it ridiculous that this assumption is typically directed at South Asians, in spite of the fact that many other cultures engage in the same practice, but I guess I have to attribute it to the widespread association of the Indian culture with arranged marriages. I really shouldn’t take the comment as personally as I did, but my reaction was mainly attributed to her attitude that she was educated and culturally aware, when she clearly wasn’t. I’ll take ignorance over ego any day, as long as you know it too J
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