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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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[–] Admiral-PoopyDick@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Lol yeah but even in the US white people ask each other this question, it's really annoying imo (but 100% I know its not as frustrating as the experience of a nonwhite person). My grandpa was from Hungary, escaped during '54 and I have citizenship from there but I would never call myself Hungarian, in Hungary itself I joke with people I am papír magyar. I just say I am American, both to Americans and everyone else. Nothing else is relevant unless I'm talking with border police. The identity politics are insane