Today I was a little shocked to hear my friend tell me that some woman in an interview asked her "what are you?" My friend Michelle and I always joke around about how people think she is bi-racial when in actuality she is a white-caucasian female. It is funny to us because people won't even let her open her mouth sometimes before they ask her if she is and she doesn't know why. This really made me think back to our discussion last week in class when one of our class members said someone asked her if she was Native American because she had dark hair. I think that a lot of people will say things like this and it is offensive. I don't think it is offensive in the sense that my friend cares that people find her bi-racial, but the fact that people feel they have the permission to just ask. I don't go up to people asking them is they are gay or if they are black. To me it isn't relevant either way so why ask?