When I was young, I thought there were only two races- black and white. I got confused when a teacher (in a lesson about racial history) noted that most of us in the room were white except for one East Asian kid. I was confused because, since most East Asian people have fair skin, I didn't realize that they were not considered "white".
*Also, race is an extremely subjective topic, and I think we're way too quick to box people into racial categories.
When I asked my father if we were black or white in second grade after learning about segregation/MLK, he said white. Even literal East Asians see themselves as white.
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