Arya, a teenager from India, settled with her parents in Seoul, South Korea. In spite of facing racism due to her brown face and nerdy appearance, Arya excelled in her studies, outshining her colleagues. She held the top rank, effortlessly reading a...
Arya slowly opened her eyes at 3.00AM as a bright light from her smartphone light up her dark room. A message notification from a app called your Artificial intelligence (AI) friend where people can talk or message to AI as their friend or lover. The AI which is called as my Chinku greeted her with a good morning,then the AI also messaged her to introduce herself.
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Tired but feeling a respond, Arya typed,Hello my Chinku ! I am Arya , sweet sixteen,I have brown eyes with brown skin tone because my mother is Indian and my father originally from seoul, Korea.I like to live in India but I should follow my father's words.I have good marks at my High school,but I don't even had a single friend.
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Maya Sharma, my Indian mother, shows kindness and heartwarming care for her belongings, all while challenging with societal judgment based on her skin tone, a shared experience between us. As an English teacher, she works with knowledge with dedication. However, the shadow of daily, seemingly purposeless arguments with my Korean father, Park Hyubin, reminds since my grandmother's passing. Hyubin, a strict and patriotic individual, works as a software Engineer , yet our reality remains in a middle-class life within Korea's digital country.
As her words disappeared on her phone screen, Arya thought about the loneliness that marked her days ,"My Indian cousins and friends like Korean dramas so much and they think it's real.Racism is an unfortunate reality,"she sighed,thinking about how different her two worlds are.
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