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[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"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"

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I got in trouble for this once lmao

A group of teenagers showed up to the charity event my club worked on every year. They all knew each other and I was curious what organization they might be a part of, so I asked one "so where are y'all from?" Only then did it occur to me that they were all Hispanic and the poor kid, looking unbelieveably annoyed, firmly told me "here." I was able to stumble into my real curiosity but God that was embarrasing.