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In reply to the discussion: The top TEN questions asked to Asian-Americans.. [View all]RobinA
(10,233 posts)when people want to know about your ancestry? They probably want to avoid making some kind of mistake that will get them further derided. I don't want to think a Vietnamese person is Korean or assume that someone Korean is Chinese. Maybe they are interested? If I, a white person, travel to China, I would expect people to ask me what kind of white I am. They naturally want to know if I am from Australia or Quebec.
As a white person, when I travel to tourist destinations in the US I am very conscious of white European travelers and where they are from. We might strike up a conversation based on our national origin. I can't do this with an Asian? (I don't, by the way, I avoid all conversation even remotely related to race or national origin with non-whites because it's kind of can't win at the moment.)
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