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Pony Chadala • Lisboeta
@coladaclan
Thinking about curious, friendly phrasing, that’s racially sensitive. E.g. as a white person, it’s not so güd to say to a non-white person: “where are you from” What about: “where are your people from?” + open smile
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
"where are you from" doesn't personally strike me as insensitive, it's just really unclear. i was born in china, moved to singapore when i was 2, moved to the states when i was 6 - unclear which of those counts as where i'm "from"
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
"where are your people from" is confusing in a different way b/c it assumes i identify with my racial group which i might not necessarily. i don't really consider chinese people "my people," i have almost nothing in common with people who live in china
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
in some sense the most honest answers i could give to both of these questions are that i'm from the internet and so are my people. my people are the terminally online and we will never log off
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Pony Chadala • Lisboeta
@coladaclan
I’m clunkily wording my questions, thank you for your deconstructs I’m reaching for the autopilot phrase that acknowledges we’re not from the same town — and I’m curious if there’s like English language phrase that lands universally
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