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minus-squaremassive_bereavement@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up65·2 months agoI’ll give you a bonus one: “But where are you originally from?”
minus-squareSkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up28·edit-22 months agoOr white person: “You speak [West European language I was raised in] very well” Me: “Uh thanks you too” White person:
minus-squarebdonvr@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down1·2 months ago“where are you from?” Here. “But where did you grow up?” Here. “Where were you born?” Here. “But where were your parents from?” The town over. “Okay but where were your grandparents from” [Other country] “Ah okay now I can finally put this label on you and refer to you as [country]an whenever I talk about you and hang all these assumptions on you”
I’ll give you a bonus one: “But where are you originally from?”
Or white person: “You speak [West European language I was raised in] very well”
Me: “Uh thanks you too”
White person:
Wait that’s illegal
“where are you from?”
Here.
“But where did you grow up?”
Here.
“Where were you born?”
Here.
“But where were your parents from?”
The town over.
“Okay but where were your grandparents from”
[Other country]
“Ah okay now I can finally put this label on you and refer to you as [country]an whenever I talk about you and hang all these assumptions on you”