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For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.

— Aziz Ansari

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California. I was also chubby, into boys who weren't into me, and tried too hard to fit into this 'blackness' I was supposed to be.

— Issa Rae

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.

— Billy Eckstine

The people I see every day have known me since I was a little fat kid.

— Alden Ehrenreich

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

— Maya Lin

Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.

— Natasha Trethewey

I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be who I needed to be.

— Colin Kaepernick

I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.

— Sam Claflin

I was fair-skinned in a country that's about the outdoors.

— Nicole Kidman

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.

— Georg Brandes

I grew up as a Polynesian kid in the Polynesian community, and I was this skinny white kid.

— Sonny Bill Williams