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Vent: It gets quite frustrating traveling as a nonwhite american. (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by CanalBloody@alien.top to c/digitalnomad@expats.zone

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Tired of constantly having conversations like this:

"Where are you from?"

"USA"

"But where are you really from?/But whats your nationality?/Are you actually american?... like.. full american?"

American isnt a race! American =/= white. Yes im "full american" even though im ethnically latino! If you want to know my ethnicity/race then just ask me that instead of implying im not a "real" american.

I know most people asking this arent doing so from a place of malice, but damn does it get tiring after the 100th time.

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[–] CanalBloody@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because I find it offensive the implication that im not a "real american" despite being born in the US, my family being here for several generations, and being a military veteran myself from a long line of veterans.

It gets tiring after hearing it for the 100th time.

[–] Gemdiver@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

embrace it and turn it around on them. "i'm not a real american, i'm not fat, i don't fuck my sister, i don't kill minorities." Watch their eyes glaze over as their brain reboots.