a stranger in a new city.

Buckle up: an ethnic studies major is going to rant about racism abroad! The main concern of all my peers when coming here was that they would be singled out for being american, and the thought of standing out was always the biggest topic of conversation. For me, being filipino in a smaller city (of the big cities) in Italy, nobody knows what filipinos are (even my peers from America). This feeling of being singled out and foreign is not a new concept for me, but was exacerbated living abroad. I felt unseen in some spaces, knowing my peers were trying to figure out my ethnicity or market stall sellers calling out “Japanese? Chinese” when I walked by. I want to capture being a stranger in a. New city, even after living here for four months sometimes I feel like a foreigner.