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.
Because I find it offensive the implication that im not a “real american” despite being born in the US, my family being here for several generations, and being a military veteran myself from a long line of veterans.
It gets tiring after hearing it for the 100th time.
embrace it and turn it around on them. “i’m not a real american, i’m not fat, i don’t fuck my sister, i don’t kill minorities.” Watch their eyes glaze over as their brain reboots.