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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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[–] jl250@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Imagine being 1) Born in the United States, the wealthiest society in human history, and B) someone with enough resources to travel, and still finding a way to feel like a victim because someone asks you where you are from.

I hope you can grow up and see how ungrateful, out-of-touch with reality, and (for me) repulsive this attitude is.

Your parents or grandparents didn't make tremendous sacrifices to bring you to a wealthy country, where you would have resources and freedom previously unprecedented in your family, so that you could twist reality to cry victim.

I know mine didn't.

Let's honor the generation of our Latino parents who made great sacrifices to raise us in prosperity by not falling into victim mentality - they didn't uproot their lives and travel halfway across the world for us by feeling like victims.

You want to be recognized as a Latino, but crying that someone asked you where you are from while you have $$$ and are traveling the world is the most un-Latino mentality I can possibly imagine and an insult to our parents and grandparents.