Asians as Aliens (22 weeks, 4 days)

Aaron reminded me after reading my post from yesterday about something else that might have contributed to my dream about having a baby that was half alien. Well, I have been spending some time not only thinking about my identity, but about Sprout's future identity and if being 1/4 Asian American is part of how someone might be identified/self-identify. Does being 1/4 Asian American qualify you as being Asian American? Does it depend on your cultural surroundings? What boxes do you check? Now, I know some people who identify as being Native American and are 1/16. I think many people would say if a person was 1/4 African American, that person is black. But Asian/Asian Americans don't get looked at like other minorities do -- they are a model minority, after all. So is being 1/4 Asian, 3/4 white just white?

If you are trying to watch the train of thought, the cars get a little jumbled around here....)This all probably relates to the dream as the baby was different by some identifiable quality (like race/ethnicity). And, when I was at Duke, I took a whole class on "Asians as Aliens in America". Hence, the alien baby might have been related to being an Asian baby. Funny how the subconscious turns one thing into another....