It is Carol Paik’s turn to tell her story. Personally, I struggled to find the message she was trying to promote in her piece. So I decided to answer her question: is she a racist? Maybe she is just distracted, careless, and too old to distinguish one Asian from another as she suggested within her closing lines. It is possible that she just endured so much racial profiling that she has adopted the same outlook.

“I’m Not Who You Think I Am” explores the reality of internalized racism. It is where “we come to mistreat ourselves and other members of our group in the same ways that we have been mistreated as the targets of racism.” Carol mirrors most people who absorb the stereotypes reluctantly and then unconsciously impress the same labels on other people. Because she is typically perceived as her “race and not the individual,” she has done the same to other Asians like herself. I don’t think I can call her racially prejudice, just slightly contradictory.