Shelly Dale Amaral Preza

How do others define your race?

People have a hard time with my race. People here haven’t met a lot of mixed-race people. People tend to ask me because I am so ambiguous. People don’t really know what to make of me so I tell them. And, when I say that I am Native Hawaiian people also tend to say, "Oh, I can see that." But, Hawaiians look so different. So, I don’t see how that is even possible.