Tan Family Chronicles: Isaac is English?! (studio pix 8)

Tuesday 31 August 2010

Isaac is English?! (studio pix 8)

Sometime last week or the week before that, Isaac came home from school and told me that he had a new friend - as in, a new classmate. A boy named Hamzah. Instinctively, my brain started to process the information, and wanted to classify the new information I received and the question was out of my mouth before I really thought about it...

Me: Hamzah? That's a unique name. Is Hamzah Chinese or Malay? (I thought it made a cool 'christian' name - you never know, these days.)

Isaac looked at me in a HUH? look - he didn't understand my question. Quickly, I realised that he had no concept of race or nationality - which is natural - that's something you learn... So I tried to explain myself by giving examples...

Me: Oh, is Hamzah Malay like Marcel? Or Chinese like Kevin?

Isaac paused. Thinking over my question... then... without answering my question...

Isaac: Mummy, I am English!!!

Hahahhaa... it was hilarious. I laughed so hard my tears came. Isaac my English boy!!! :)

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