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.
I just say I’m from this city in the USA and leave it at that. I am of South Asian decent. I don’t think I have yet received a follow up or the “where are you really from?” Though I think that may have a lot to do with the fact that I look very unambiguously South Asian and they probably already clocked me as that, so…