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Byline: Kathy Boccella
PHILADELPHIA _ Canh Oxelson isn't famous, but if the 6-foot-2 Amerasian man with the caramel skin, almond-shaped eyes and broad grin passed you on the street, you might do a double take.
Especially if you liked golf.
Oxelson is a Vietnam War orphan, Harvard graduate, University of Pennsylvania recruiter _ and Tiger Woods look-alike.
For years, Oxelson, who was adopted by a white family and grew up in central California, wondered where he fit into American society.
"Friends said I wasn't black enough, or wasn't white enough. And no one knew I was Vietnamese," he said over a heaping bowl of Thai red curry at his favorite.
He didn't look like anyone he knew. That changed with the rise of a young Stanford University golfer who could drive the ball farther than many of the pros on the PGA tour.
Source: HighBeam Research, Tiger's double reflects on the similarities, differences.