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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    1 year ago

    Many Asian Americans have 2 or 3 generations in the US. My grandparents and parents are all from the US.

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      1 year ago

      If a racially White person is 2nd or 3rd generation born in Japanese, are they Japanese?

      Because they do exist

      Or we can just look Elon Musk

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        1 year ago

        You just need to read a book about the USA. Elon Musk is definitely South African, everyone that read a history knows how the population evolved there

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          You just need to read a book about the USA.

          No, you just need to read more books. I promise you I know more than you ever will.

          Tell me where your people are from and I will tell you what population was genocided by your people, and that they weren’t originally from there. I can get very far back to Neanderthals and Denisovans and show you

          I’ll ask you another Japan question. Can I say that modern Japanese aren’t “actually from Japan,” since the modern Japanese population are descendant from migrants less than 2 thousand years ago from modern day China, and the inhabitants before them were Austronesian?

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      1 year ago

      Those would be considered fairly new arrivals. There are many Asian Americans that go back even further. For me, Chinese descent, it is 6 generations including myself. My 3x great grandparents and everyone since have also been US citizens.