this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
6 points (100.0% liked)
Moving to: m/AskMbin!
7 readers
1 users here now
### We are moving! **Join us in our new journey as we take a new direction towards the future for this community at mbin, find our new community here and read this post to know more about why we are moving. Thank you and we hope to see you there!**
founded 1 year ago
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
As a Brit who looks eastern Asian…
“Where are you from?” And when I tell them, the follow up: “Okay, but where are you really from?”
They’re asking my heritage, but it comes off as really presumptuous; as if I couldn’t have possibly been born and raised in this country.
That's when you pause for a beat, looking them straight in the eye, then repeat yourself exactly identically but slightly slower.
I’ve definitely done this before. They get angry at you. It would be funny if I wasn’t so tired of repeating myself.