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What kind of Asian are you? (Original Post) DainBramaged Jul 2013 OP
I have been asked what my mother's ancestry is by a man as offensive as this one... I wish I could midnight Jul 2013 #1
No one asks where you come from unless you don't look like them or talk like them DainBramaged Jul 2013 #2
"Really. You're Native American." JoeyT Jul 2013 #3
Curiously, I don't see this primarily as a racial or ethnic... TreasonousBastard Jul 2013 #4
very reacial and people stereotype all of the time like this Pretzel_Warrior Jul 2013 #5
OK, I'll accept that, but... TreasonousBastard Jul 2013 #6
o m g... AsahinaKimi Jul 2013 #7
I was waiting for a native american to join this routine.... diverdownjt Jul 2013 #8
LOL funny. nt limpyhobbler Jul 2013 #9

midnight

(26,624 posts)
1. I have been asked what my mother's ancestry is by a man as offensive as this one... I wish I could
Mon Jul 29, 2013, 11:54 AM
Jul 2013

of had as much fun as this women did....


DainBramaged

(39,191 posts)
2. No one asks where you come from unless you don't look like them or talk like them
Mon Jul 29, 2013, 12:01 PM
Jul 2013

and they just don't understand it doesn't mean shit unless they offer to tell you. We have an American Indian at work and people go "wut kind of Indian r u nuk nuk"?


His reply is always the same


American.


And they just don't get it.

JoeyT

(6,785 posts)
3. "Really. You're Native American."
Mon Jul 29, 2013, 12:42 PM
Jul 2013

I can't stop laughing at that.

My usual response to something like "Where is your family from?" when it comes in a conversation like that is "I don't know. It was about fifteen thousand years ago, so we've lost the scrapbooks."

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
4. Curiously, I don't see this primarily as a racial or ethnic...
Mon Jul 29, 2013, 01:24 PM
Jul 2013

thing.

It's just another guy who's really, really lousy at pickups.

 

Pretzel_Warrior

(8,361 posts)
5. very reacial and people stereotype all of the time like this
Mon Jul 29, 2013, 01:54 PM
Jul 2013

my wife is mainland Chinese, and my niece is half Korean. They get this crap all of the time.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
6. OK, I'll accept that, but...
Mon Jul 29, 2013, 02:07 PM
Jul 2013

I know a lot of Asians and Pacific Islanders around here and where I see most of this is not with them IRL but on comedy routines.

Maybe it just doesn't happen that much around here because everyone's used to the ethnic diversity.



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