southern belle
i spent a good part of my childhood growing up in Snellville, Georgia (“Everybody’s Somebody in Snellville). I’ve also been raised Baptist, and the pastor of the church I attended since I was a baby had his theological degree from Bob Jones in South Carolina. So you could say I’m Southern Baptist. I’ve never lived anywhere else in America (but I did spend my teen years in Korea) until I went to Dartmouth.
A conversation I had with my friend my senior year made me realized this had more effect on my personality than I thought. My friend never knew that I lived in Georgia, and I had just told him. He answered with “Ohhhhhh. I could see that.” I asked him what he meant. He told me I had this southern belle quality that made sense when he learned that I grew up in Georgia.
An Asian southern belle?????
Interesting.
