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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]if your husband was born here he is not "from Ghana"

I am 100% Race Indian, but not from India, born in USA.  Race and where you are from are 2 different things.

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Op here. Thanks PP. I know a few people like yourself and a few like him. From his perspective he’s the only American born child and his parents came to the U.S. just over a year or two before he was born. But all of the relatives outside of his immediate family are back in Ghana. I’ve noticed people often ask where our last name origins are from and for him, that includes his first name. [/quote]

[b]No one thinks that you can be from a country you weren’t born in and never lived in except for your husband.[/b][/quote]
Well, as an Asian American who has been asked countless times, "Where are you REALLY from?" - let me assure you that plenty of people (mostly older White people) think that Asian Americans are from countries we weren't born in and have never lived in.
My experience is extremely common among Asian Americans. This is why the phrase "forever foreigner" was coined - from the perspective of many White people, Asian Americans are assumed to have come from a country other than the USA, even though my family has lived in California since the Gold Rush.[/quote]

+1000

I’m half-Asian, half-White, born in the US, have had family here for centuries on my White side.   I am “ambiguously ethnic’ as I look like I could be from about 4-5 different ethnic backgrounds, and I have a name that is not immediately categorizable as the ‘type’ of Asian I am.

Those of us who fall into this category (e.g., most likely OP’s husband, the PP here) get this question all the time. A lot of us can tell what people are REALLY asking - which is sometimes genuine curiosity but also sometimes ‘why do you not look “American” (and maybe have a funny name) but sound American?’  And the latter is typically from older White Americans.

Anyway - your daughter should just say “DC area” and if pressed when in Roanoke “DC area, but my dad grew up in Roanoke and we still have family here”

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