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Vent: It gets quite frustrating traveling as a nonwhite american. (alien.top)
submitted 11 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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[–] kebin65@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, as an Asian-American, I've adjusted to saying "I'm from the US, but my parents are from..." if I get the vibe that they're really asking for my ethnicity.

In Ljubljana, I just left it at "I'm from the US" and the shopkeeper straight-up said, "but how can you be from the US when you look like that?" which I thought was pretty funny, cause nobody's phrased it like that to me before lol.

[–] kulukster@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Many Asian Americans have 2 or 3 generations in the US. My grandparents and parents are all from the US.

[–] Easy_Yogurt_376@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Those would be considered fairly new arrivals. There are many Asian Americans that go back even further. For me, Chinese descent, it is 6 generations including myself. My 3x great grandparents and everyone since have also been US citizens.

[–] TreatedBest@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If a racially White person is 2nd or 3rd generation born in Japanese, are they Japanese?

Because they do exist

Or we can just look Elon Musk

[–] PaneSborraSalsiccia@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You just need to read a book about the USA. Elon Musk is definitely South African, everyone that read a history knows how the population evolved there

[–] TreatedBest@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You just need to read a book about the USA.

No, you just need to read more books. I promise you I know more than you ever will.

Tell me where your people are from and I will tell you what population was genocided by your people, and that they weren't originally from there. I can get very far back to Neanderthals and Denisovans and show you

I'll ask you another Japan question. Can I say that modern Japanese aren't "actually from Japan," since the modern Japanese population are descendant from migrants less than 2 thousand years ago from modern day China, and the inhabitants before them were Austronesian?

[–] According_Ask_3338@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Gotta love their dumplings though.

[–] DorianGre@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

"You can't be from the US when you look like that. Where are you really from? Ireland, Poland, Germany, Lithuania? Your English is pretty good. Keep practicing, you will get there."