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