This First Person column is written by Clement Goh, a second-generation Chinese Canadian and CBC journalist. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
The first date shouldn’t feel like a pilot episode. But this one does. And for better or worse, I’m playing the role of the Asian male lead.
“You look so much like this character I’ve seen in a K-drama I’m watching,” my date says.
It’s not the first time I’ve been told that and I’ve never known how to respond to it, in part because this is a relatively new phenomenon.
As much as it hurts
