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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apparently Asian Americans hate this so I avoid it with Asian Americans. I love to know people's culture so I still ask everybody else.

It is mostly because I love food, I helped a friend recreate her grandma's recipes over COVID. Had I not had that conversation I would not have know her background or that she missed her grandma's cooking.[/quote]

You are basically making it that persons job to entertain you and provide you with an "exotic" cultural experience (and recipes?). Not my job to entertain or educate you. It's your job to entertain and educate yourself. Sign up for a cooking class or something.[/quote]

Sometimes people just want to connect with other people, and the best way to do that is to ask questions. Your defensiveness really shows a glaring lack of social skills. [/quote]

+1.  Why the hostility, PP?  You don't have many friends, do you?[/quote]

+2 I have a surname that people recognize as a certain ethnicity. I get asked about it all the time and I read it as people making conversation. I married into the name so it doesn't match my ethnicity/physical appearance so I never read it as being asked to entertain others with an "exotic" cultural experience.  [/quote]

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