I'm so freaking sick of being stared at. Everywhere I go, I get stared at, pointed at and talked about. I understand being curious, but there comes a point where it just becomes rude!
People have no shame about it either. They stop and stare at me and look me up and down and then start talking and pointing at me. Then, if I pass them, they will turn around and watch me walk away. In the beginning, it was funny, now it's infuriating.
I walk to a kindergarten where I work four days a week and every day there's a woman that walks the same road, but in the opposite direction. We pass each other every day.
Every day she stares at me and looks me up and down and kind of has this "Tsk, Tsk" look on her face. It's not like I'm dressed inappropriately. She always sees me in either jeans or dress pants and my winter coat.
At first, I smiled at her when we crossed paths, but her reaction has never changed. She always does the same thing: stare at me and look me up and down.
The other day I lost it. I could see her coming and she was staring at me, so I stared back. Then she started looking me up and down with a look of complete disgust on her face.
I started yelling, "STOP STARING AT ME!!!!!! JESUS!"
She quickly scuttled off while looking back at me and shaking her head.
It's so frustrating!
A friend of mine wants to have a T-shirt made that says in Korean writing, "Stop staring at me, it's rude." I think I will have one made, too.
I asked some of my high school students about the staring issue and they just laughed. They said it's because people here don't see white people very much. But, honestly, I'm not the only white person here and the advertisements, storefronts and television shows and ads are plastered with white faces. Surely, I'm not the only white face this woman has ever seen.
Apparently manners are not universal.
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