So, do you think I have a big nose?

I am only asking because I was recently in a meeting for work. Not a lot of people ask me my opinion about a lot of things during the course of a meeting at work. I work with a lot of consultants and they ain't asking for anyone's opinion about anything. So imagine my surprise when one of my more senior colleagues turns to me and asks me how I feel about the whole Hamas situation.

Um. What? Yeah.

I said that I find it hard to answer those kinds of questions because my values are too different. I explained that I read the Economist, but at arms length because I have no idea what it is like to operate at such high levels of hatred, passion.... and then I realized, I think he thinks I am Jewish! This isn't the first time. When I was living in Kansas a Kansan told me she just assumed I was Jewish because I had dark hair, a big nose and came from the East Coast. I thought that made me Italian, but whatevs. I told her I assumed her parents were siblings because she's from the midwest. She said she thought that made her from Alabams, but whatevs. Boy, did we laugh and laugh. I am serious about the dark hair, east coast, big nose thing though. She really said that. Strange because most of my Jewish girlfriends have seriously little, cute noses. Have any of you met, Andrea? She's drop-dead gorgeous, all Jewish, half Peruvian. I'm not Jewish and no part Peruvian. Sometimes people tell me that I look like Mr. Bean. He isn't Jewish either, just British. I think from certain angles I look like Isabella Rossellini, but from others I look like The Critic, the cartoon John Luvitz did. IT STINKS! That show cracked me up.


Let's read on this topic, shall we? How about some thoughts from people who have done actual research on the subject. Check out this link which I haven't learned how to link to yet (you remember how to cut and paste though, right?) and check out an article on what it means to have a big nose. Some say it is a sign of character. Others say associating Jewish people with big noses is a form of discrimination. I am not one to discriminate and strangely enough, I don't think my colleague meant anything by it either.


http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.11.01/fast1.html