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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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[–] Rustykilo@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (23 children)

Yup this is why I always tell people. If you want to migrate move to the US. I have a friend who are Asian but became German. The Germans never see him as one of them. He said he will always an outsider.

[–] Acceptable-Amount-14@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (22 children)

I have a friend who are Asian but became German

He didn't became german, he got german citizenship.

German is a nationality and an ethnicity that goes back thousands of years. You don't magically become a german because you live there 7 years.

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

Yes and that's why so much inbreeding and disabilities... You are a very small country, America on the other hand is all immigrants so.. No issue there at all....

[–] Acceptable-Amount-14@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

There's absolutely no inbreeding in Denmark. We're one of the most outbred countries in the world. We stopped marrying cousins 600 years ago.

Turkey on the other hand.

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