As someone who is not at all typical in many things, I am very ambivalent about rice. I don't dislike it, but I do avoid eating it. A lot of extended family members also avoid eating rice.



I understand many things about me are very unlike what people expect of Asians.



But as you can see, within a few minutes of interacting with anyone, I can establish that I'm not like what they expect Chinese to be like. Sometimes that causes a hostile or uncomfortable reaction because people don't know what to make of me. But sometimes it also causes a kind of friendly kindred response, because some people like being able to put aside their expected social roles and be themselves because they know I am myself.



Sometimes I wonder if acting like a stereotypical role also causes others to react the same way and act out a stereotypical role unconsciously. I never came across to anyone as a standard Asian-American high achiever in school, a model minority, or whatever that they could pigeonhole properly.



In my experience the vast majority of Jews are not how TP describes them to be like.