Anonymous
03/14/2024 14:55
Subject: If someone guesses your nationality or race wrong do you get offended?
Doesn’t bother me at all. Glad people are interested enough to find out.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 14:54
Subject: If someone guesses your nationality or race wrong do you get offended?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Many many times people think I am Spanish because I speak with an accent, even though I am born in Boston. It is not up to me to correct them.
😂 And you just happened to give all of your children Hispanic names…
Sí.
🥒
What’s with the cucumber?
It's part of the Hilaria Baldwin diss. In a cooking show segment she "forgot" the english word for cucumber.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 14:51
Subject: If someone guesses your nationality or race wrong do you get offended?
Anonymous wrote:No I don't get offended. I'm from the UK but when I lived in Bethesda often people thought I was Scandinavian which surprised me. Then I did my DNA and it turns out that I am 35% Scandinavian. So there's that.
If you're from the British Isles you are definitely part Scandinavian. Because history, just sayin.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 14:44
Subject: If someone guesses your nationality or race wrong do you get offended?
Anonymous wrote:People guess my ethnicity wrong all the time, especially when I'm tan. I'm not offended at all. I do find it weird that people try to guess it in the first place.
Yeah it's rude.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 14:43
Subject: If someone guesses your nationality or race wrong do you get offended?
People guess my ethnicity wrong all the time, especially when I'm tan. I'm not offended at all. I do find it weird that people try to guess it in the first place.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 14:39
Subject: If someone guesses your nationality or race wrong do you get offended?
No I don't get offended. I'm from the UK but when I lived in Bethesda often people thought I was Scandinavian which surprised me. Then I did my DNA and it turns out that I am 35% Scandinavian. So there's that.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 14:14
Subject: If someone guesses your nationality or race wrong do you get offended?
Two ethnicities I find very easy to guess are Ethiopian and Filipino, with the latter being especially easy to guess if last name is known. I work in healthcare, so I have a lot of colleagues from both countries.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 14:13
Subject: If someone guesses your nationality or race wrong do you get offended?
This happens to me all the time. Are you asking because you think this is a microagression?
I don’t let it bother me. I think people are just trying to connect.
I don’t let it bother me. I think people are just trying to connect.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 14:09
Subject: Re:If someone guesses your nationality or race wrong do you get offended?
Like most things, it depends. It doesn’t bother me at all if people are guessing wrong to assume that I”m more like them. When I lived in NYC, people often spoke to me in Spanish, and that felt welcoming. What’s bizarre and offensive is when people TELL me what I look like or seem like to them — in ways that center them and their guesses rather than any genuine effort to connect with me.
The vast majority of kids get a break on this, as long as their curiosity is accompanied by a modicum of politeness.
The vast majority of kids get a break on this, as long as their curiosity is accompanied by a modicum of politeness.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 14:07
Subject: If someone guesses your nationality or race wrong do you get offended?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Many many times people think I am Spanish because I speak with an accent, even though I am born in Boston. It is not up to me to correct them.
😂 And you just happened to give all of your children Hispanic names…
Sí.
🥒
What’s with the cucumber?
Anonymous
03/14/2024 14:05
Subject: If someone guesses your nationality or race wrong do you get offended?
Anonymous wrote:People always think I am Spanish or Greek. I was literally in a hospital recently and the check in lady came back out of the office to the waiting area to double check. She said I looked too “exotic” to be American. She was a POC herself and I assumed it was a compliment on some level. My DH was with me and we still joke about my exotic flair.
Was your dad a G.I.?
Anonymous
03/14/2024 14:05
Subject: If someone guesses your nationality or race wrong do you get offended?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Many many times people think I am Spanish because I speak with an accent, even though I am born in Boston. It is not up to me to correct them.
😂 And you just happened to give all of your children Hispanic names…
Sí.
🥒
Anonymous
03/14/2024 14:04
Subject: If someone guesses your nationality or race wrong do you get offended?
People always think I am Spanish or Greek. I was literally in a hospital recently and the check in lady came back out of the office to the waiting area to double check. She said I looked too “exotic” to be American. She was a POC herself and I assumed it was a compliment on some level. My DH was with me and we still joke about my exotic flair.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 13:59
Subject: If someone guesses your nationality or race wrong do you get offended?
I enjoy asking people I suspect of being anti Semitic if they're Jewish.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 13:56
Subject: If someone guesses your nationality or race wrong do you get offended?
Anonymous wrote:I am Senegalese and people are constantly assuming I'm from Guinea-Bissau. It is infuriating.
