“What Are You?”: On Mixed-Race Identity and ‘The Buddhist Bug’
Yet, my same racial mutability also poses a threat: “How can you identify a ‘them’ if it can pass for an ‘us’?”
The Buddhist Bug
The Buddhist Bug
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Are you mixed?Are you Malaysian/local?Where are you from?What are you?
The Buddhist Bug: A Creation Mythology
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The Buddhist Bug, Into the Night
Why is The Bug Buddhist? Isn’t her head covering Muslim? Where is she going? Is she looking for something? If so, what?
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What are you? Are you one of us or one of them?
The Buddhist Bug
what are you?
How are you? What do you love? What are your dreams? Do you need anything? How can we help?
Deborah Germaine Augustin is a writer and teacher born and raised in Malaysia. She trained as a fiction writer but creative nonfiction might be her true calling. She dreams of a world where we all have freedom of movement. Follow her on Twitter @dbgermane.
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