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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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[–] jamar030303@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I mean, when you yourself go as absolute as to say

super American, the rest of the world DOES NOT think like this

While just sentences earlier said

and commonwealth countries like Australia and Canada

Which are, in fact, part of "the rest of the world" aside from America, the irony is palpable.

And that's aside from countries like Brazil, which is just as multiethnic despite not being "commonwealth".