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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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[–] DaMoonRulez_1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure it gets annoying and happens to you more. I'm white from the US and when nationality history was brought up I mentioned that I have a lot of Irish and other euro mix. Then they were like, wait do you aren't American?

I had to explain basically everyone in the US is "from" somewhere else if you go back multiple generations. So people think this way even if you are white and they find out more info, but just assume "full American" until then.

Side note. I'm from southern California and among other things am craving some legit tacos.

[–] 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