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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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[–] bogidu@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

As a nation, we're causing this kind of international ignorance by putting so much emphasis on ethnicity rather than nationality. All of these hyphenated-American subgroups are watering down what it means to be an American. If people would stop focusing on skin color, eventually the U.S. WOULD be seen as a diverse place, but instead we're all focused on the differences and not the areas in which we are the same.

Having said that . . . . the U.S. is not truly one nation in culture so it's really hard to define what being in American is. We have the deep south, the northeast, the midwest . . . . and the left coast and we couldn't be more different than many of the tiny european countries are.