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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]

Thank you!   I am American born as are my children.  I am often asked where I am really from.  How I answer depends entirely on how I am feeling.  I may say “really from Florida” over and over until they stop asking.  Sometimes I just want to be done with the conversation and will insert “my parents immigrated from xyz”.  [/quote]

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