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.
Exactly. There are people born and raised in Japan, who were not ethnically Japanese and in spite of growing up there, speaking the language, etc. were never accepted as Japanese.
In Thailand there is a certain level of “Thainess” one needs to possess to be accepted even as a local and an ethnic classism that favors the Thai-Chinese.
I never knew this, thank you!