I never considered my personal color to be white. When I was very young I was pink(ish). Now I am multiple shades of beige. Any way you look at it I am not white.

I have never been anywhere that makes more of race and national origin than Guam. It seems to be important to everyone but me. They sell bumper stickers that proclaim their ethnic origin and what mix of ethnicities they are. Wakana (my wife) is Japanese and proud of that. She claims she can tell Koreans and Chinese just by looking at them. Usually the first question anyone asks when talking about someone who is mentioned in the paper and TV is what their ethnic origin is. I don't think there are any negative comments involved but it is a point of interest. You never here "Oh he's Chinese, what do you expect?" It's just not done.

And here in the middle of this is poor li'l ol' me. I had all of that educated out of me at some point over the last 50 or so years. Now I am in a place where it is important, or so they say. All I can do is stick to my guns and ignore race and ethnicity and judge everyone on their personalities.