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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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[–] Yak-Fucker-5000@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I've traveled all over this country working remotely and there are definitely some small towns in the sticks where I thought to myself "Damn I'm glad I'm white" because the people just seemed like such backwater hicks or I heard them say some racial slur. And down South I've had some store clerks be super friendly to me or even give me free shit in ways I'm positive they would not have done if I didn't look like I just stepped off a Viking longboat.