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

submitted 1 year 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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[–] hazycake@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I lived in Japan for a decade a lot of first conversations began like this.

Japanese person: where are you from?

Me: I’m from the US.

Japanese person: you don’t look American…

Me: I’m Thai American… my parents are from Thailand.

Japanese person: you don’t look Thai…

Me: My grandparents were from China and my parents grew up in Thailand and moved to the US.

Japanese person: and now you’re in japan, speaking japanese with me.

Me: Yes.

….. sometimes if I know I won’t see them again I just lie and say I’m Chinese American.