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What’s it like growing up when people mistake you for white?
Three women of colour explain what it’s like being white-passing in a white girl’s world
www.dazeddigital.com
YAZ MAHMOUDI, 24, IRANIAN
'I grew up in a very white suburb of Oxford. Despite passing as white, my primary school was so white that I often ended up being the most ‘ethnic’ kid in the class. I was teased a lot for having a foreign surname, and I used to wish I had a different name.'
'I rarely stand out in white-dominated spaces, and for those who are aware of my ethnic background, I’m often an ‘acceptable’ minority to have around. Sometimes I refer to myself as ‘white but not quite’ as a joke.'
White-cels is she white to you?