Just a reminder that this is not either or. Nationality, citizenship, ethnicity, none are the same thing. I'm still an immigrant in UK.https://twitter.com/JoeBathelt/status/785742643024191488 …
I don't mind that much as I'm legally British. But do all the others get to sometimes be where they are from? I genuinenly tire.
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when I start saying no, I start getting policed. And my mum... OMG. The next time somebody calls her my friend I'll flip.
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yes, brown people can have white skinned babies
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I do think people just don't understand how the genetics of skin colour works. I mean, racism too, but also just plain confusion.
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it's tiring either way
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Of course. That doesn't make it not a problem, it just makes it maybe a problem that better biology classes at school could solve.
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I recall being taught this at school. I'm from one of the most racist countries in EU of not world. Still got praise for my skin.
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mainly from teachers too
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But biology is one of those subjects that I only discovered as interesting after people stopped teaching it badly to me.
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I can't really answer that because I don't have an answer to "Where are you from?" that's under a paragraph.
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I'm not even allowed to define my own ethnicity. No, I'm not Greek. No, I'm not ok w/ Greek Cypriot. No. Greeks & Brits do this.
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