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“Where are you FROM?”
“I’m from London. Ask me what my heritage is, and you’re more likely to get the answer you’re actually looking for.”
—nadiaz4da7dd1c0
“Got to the point where I just cut to the chase by saying my paternal family are of Japanese heritage. Usually after, they asked where I was born. I don’t know why they won’t ask what they really want to know.”
—superkay
“I had a white guy in Ohio ask where I was from while waiting for coffee. I said Texas. He was like, ‘No, where are you FROM.’ I said, ‘TEXAS.’ He squinted and said, ‘You were born there?’ I eventually told him I was mixed Hispanic, and he had this ‘I knew it’ scowl. I just hate how people let a person’s race or mixture of race define how they treat others. It sucks.”
—mychalv88
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1/things-mixed-people-hate-hearing
