"Don't judge a book by it's cover"

Haha, I couldn't resist starting off with the theme of last week's SBI giveaway! This week's theme is first impressions, we've all done it to others, we jump to a quite first impression based off a person's looks or their appearance. Often (at least for me), this first impression is nothing more than a collection of our accumulated experiences, unconscious stereotypes and prejudices to date. So, it often means that our first impression is wrong. Unless it is right, in which case we tend to remember it and add it to our list of confirmation biases.

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For this week, I want to do the reverse. I'm asking about what sort of first impression do you think that you transmit to other people, and if you think that it is right or wrong. It could be anything to do with your public character or something to do with the way that you look.

My First Impressions

My public character is initially friendly but slightly sarcastic. Or at least I think that is how I come accross. It sometimes leads people to think that I really like chatting and being around people (if they encounter the friendly part), which isn't totally true. I enjoy talking to single people (single, as in one person not unmarried...), but as soon as the group increases in size, I want to go and jump out the window. In fact, most of the time, I will just silently leave. However, if they encounter the sarcastic part, it can lead people (especially when English isn't their first language) to think that I am nasty or mean, which isn't true at all!

My appearance is Asian (I have Chinese heritage), but I grew up in Australia with mostly non-Asian friends. Which has led me to forgetting that I look Asian. This hasn't really been much of a problem, except since moving to Europe, where mixed couples (my wife is European-Australian) are much more rare than they are in the ex-colonies. Unforunately, this has sometimes led to some annoying conversations and situations like people questioning my nationality or being left behind at ticket queues when my wife and children go past and I'm stopped as a random stanger...

Rules

1. Upvote if you want, it increases the payout and then I can hopefully sponsor more people.
2. Resteem is NOT neccessary, but the more people see this, the more the people will be likely to be sponsored.
3. In the comments, tell me about the first impression that you think others have of you.
4. I will be sponsoring as many people as this post pays out in SBD. Also I will kick in at least the required amount to round up to the full number. Winner is by random generator after a shortlisting of quality comments!

Steem Basic Income

One of the first communities that I came in contact with at the beginning of my time at Steemit was @steembasicincome. As a beginning author, Steemit can be a daunting place. It feels like you are posting into an abyss with no ability to grow. Steem Basic Income gives you a guaranteed vote on one post a day, thus giving you a small but cumulative over time support to your account.

With this post, I want to help sponsor people who might not even have the spare 1 STEEM that is required for registration. So, when this post pays out, I will sponsor people depending on the payout of this post. Basically, I will round up the SBD payout from this post and then that will be the number of people I will sponsor. (So, if the payout is 2.3 SBD, I will sponsor 3 people).

Last week's winners

Last week paid out a bit under 1 SBD in total, bad timing as most of my trail votes missed it. Anyway, seeing as I got a whole heap of decent answers, and I have a couple of extra STEEM at the moment, I will sponsor 2 shares. Congratulations to:

@donna-metcalfe

@malloryblythe