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Vent: It gets quite frustrating traveling as a nonwhite american. (alien.top)

submitted 1 year 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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[–] Specialist_Fig3838@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Lmao this happened to me in London over the summer. Cabbie kept pressing. USA-where?-NYC-Where?-Georgia-but where? I had to firmly let him know my family didn’t have access to the records of our slave owners and where they bought my ancestors from. He said he “forgot” 🙄and apologized profusely. I was with another friend (nonPOC) and they could not believe it happened and so casually.