Observations from a half-fried, half-Chinese, half-Australian American.

Thanks to Elie who commented on a previous post, I was introduced to Gdumb.com which uses the auto-suggest feature in the search bar as an indicator of some of the most ridiculous search queries you could imagine. Elie’s own post about it explores three partial queries: “Why is Israel…”, “Why are Jews…”, and “Aliyah is… .”  The results are very interesting and a transparent* indicator of the attitudes and questions that people have.

* As transparent as Google is.

This being a site about mixed identity, the next obvious extension was to try plugging in queries containing racial identifiers. Read more