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.
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.