Thank you for a well written story which I enjoyed to read. This racial bias is something I personally find really hard to fathom, because I only see people. People with different features like eye colour, skin colour, shapes of their noses, hair colour. And none of those characteristics is inherently better than the others. How I wish everybody felt the same way and racism, or people feeling racially superior, didn’t exist.
And despite being a white guy, I can fully relate to the feeling of being shy around girls and not being seen by girls as interesting for romance, until I reached my early 20’s. It’s fun though to look back at your past and using your present knowledge and confidence to think how you would have handled certain situations now, avoiding mistakes and screw ups you made back then.