Cafeteria employee:: You work here? You look so young. Me:: I know, I get that a lot. Cafeteria employee:: It's because you're Asian. At a college, where I work as an instructor.
They really said this to you? Could you explain how that made you feel?
It's just a conversation I had with a coworker. I'm from China and my coworker thought I was a student. To explain it, I said that all Asians look young.
Your coworker probably didn't realize that being made out to look young and inexperienced could offend people from such heritages.
I still think that I look young.
You probably do look young then. Hopefully you don't get too many people that treat you poorly because of it.