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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate the question Where Are You From. As an Asian American growing up in the 70s and 80s it was a poorly phrased ignorant way of asking What Is Your Ethnicity? I would answer the question ‘I grew up in a small suburb outside Boston’. And the uncultured pasty white person would say No Where are you FROM FROM?? Still get it today from the same kind of people. [/quote]

Being of a particular ethnicity myself, I used to get this question a lot too.  I know academia now considers it a microagression.  But I personally do not.  I appreciate that people are interested in my heritage or to learn about me.  [/quote]

Exactly.

Would you prefer people make assumptions?

Would you prefer people not care or acknowledge?

I live in MoCo where we have a very diverse Spanish speaking population. I hate it when people assume we have lots of Mexicans living here. Guess what? We don’t. We have newly arrived immigrants from dozens of Spanish speaking countries alongside first generation, second generation, etc.

I hope we can move away from this micro aggression stuff and determine how to have polite, friendly conversations about such stuff. Right now, it feels like we can’t ask. [/quote]

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