The other day a local Chinese graduate student expressed shock that I was a graduate student (rather than an undergrad). This has happened at least four or five times after six months here. They (mostly local Chinese girls) think that I look extremely young, which is strange since I thought all Asian people looked a bit younger than their age (although statistically speaking that assumption is completely incorrect given that we make up the majority of the human race). I express this confusion to them, and they respond that I have a baby face. I have deduced my baby face to one or all of the following three reasons:
1. I am short with a large head, resulting in baby-like head-to-body proportions.
2. Twenty-two years of smiling has given me permanent face-muscles that creates the illusion of baby fat.
3. I wear a clip in my hair (to push back my bangs) much in the fashion of modern day four-year old girls.
I have concluded that I am essentially the Justin Bieber of Asian girls sans the sexual magnetism (no pedo). (More on the topic of Justin Bieber later.)
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