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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸
@Conaw
Interesting... I’ve mostly only seen my mother ask this question to White Americans, and it’s literally first thing she asks most everyone I introduce her to... We’re first gen immigrants - most are pretty confused at first, say things like “Ohio” Never an acceptable answer
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Dave Lu 呂曉龍
@davelu
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We've been enduring subtle racism and microaggressions our entire lives, but we stayed quiet. FYI asking someone "Where are you from? No, where are you really from?" is racist.
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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@Conaw
i think in an important sense the real answer is “the internet” and in another important sense the real answer is “nowhere” - like, one interpretation of the question assumes a certain kind of home feeling about a particular place that i don’t feel about any place
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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸
@Conaw
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Only acceptable answer if you are speaking to an older Irish woman is a 40 minute regaling of everywhere you’ve ever lived - everywhere both parents ever lived, and the birthplace and resting place of each your grandparents and great grandparents
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Paul Millerd
@p_millerd
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@Conaw
This seems like one of those things where 10 people say they don't like this and it misses the fact that 95% like being asked this question. In Taiwan this question is the best way for locals to strike up a conversation with me (and it's quite obvious I'm not from here)
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
the messy thing about this sort of thing is that people rarely properly articulate the actual grievance, which is often about dignity. people feel interrogated in a way that makes them feel like they don't belong. it's seldom the *text* of the question, but the spirit/vibe of it
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