While I'm thinking about this, it always made me a bit sad that we kids weren't counted Indian enough back home. My grandfather's (and my mother's aunt's) surname was Cato; I'm not giving my mother's maiden name for obvious reasons. ;) My cousins have names like Usha and Una, but my dougla mother married a man without any East Indian heritage, and that made us children black, as if we had to pick just one label forever and deny all the rest.
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Re: *laughs out loud.*
Date: 2009-02-01 05:11 am (UTC)While I'm thinking about this, it always made me a bit sad that we kids weren't counted Indian enough back home. My grandfather's (and my mother's aunt's) surname was Cato; I'm not giving my mother's maiden name for obvious reasons. ;) My cousins have names like Usha and Una, but my dougla mother married a man without any East Indian heritage, and that made us children black, as if we had to pick just one label forever and deny all the rest.