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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh my lord this thread is painful. “Where is your family from originally?”

Not offensive. You are welcome
[b]-Indian person married to black/Korean person[/b]. [/quote]
Well this makes you the spokesperson for all POC :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  :roll: [/quote]
DP... there are a lot of people who don't mind and find it ridiculous that people get offended over the smallest thing.  I find that Americans are the most like this.

If a person has an accent, as in OP's scenario, why is it wrong to ask where they are from?  Clearly, they are not from the US.  You can be born to an American citizen, be an American citizen, but lived in a foreign country all your life with a foreign accent.  I know someone like this.  He gets asked all the time.. "where are you from", because with an accent clearly  he's not from here, and people are just curious where he came from. They are not asking how much money he makes; what size shoe he wears. Those are very personal questions. But asking where he came from because of his accent is not a personal question. It's like asking a white person with  no accent, "did you grow up around here"?  That's not offensive so why is asking someone with a non American accent this same question so offensive?

My DH is not from here.  He has an accent. He gets asked this all the time. Now, if you ask this question to someone who is not white and doesn't have an accent and expect them to tell you their ethnicity because you are assuming such a person is not American, then that's offensive.[/quote]

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