Facecrime

Itโ€™s not racist to have more trouble telling people apart youโ€™re not used to being around. Itโ€™s just normal and human.

When I first went to China, I had trouble distinguishing some of my first acquaintances from one another, especially at a distance. But then I got to know them and even from 300 meters, I was like, โ€œOh, hey, Ling Ling, weโ€™re over here!โ€

Or, โ€œThatโ€™s Xiao Mai on the way. I see her down the street.โ€

It took me about a month to get a lot better at distinguishing Chinese faces. And then I couldnโ€™t believe after that Iโ€™d had any trouble. Noticing human differences and acknowledging them is not racism; thatโ€™s just life and reality. The left would do a lot better to accept that and deal with it like adults.

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