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.
But then they complain about Americans who call themselves German/Irish/Italian while not growing up in those European countries only to turn around and claim that immigrants from other countries can never truly become a part of theirs. Very strange double standard many pretend they don’t have.
Idk anyone who complains about that, I know a few Americans who are born to German and Italian immigrant parents and even in our friends circle we only jokingly say “Oh the Americans came”, otherwise we refer to them and they to themselves as German and Italian.