Good mornyan everyone

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I feel like I missed something

yeahhh

mornin kot

its what 9 am

Mornyan Kot

dont you have school or summat

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Yeah I'm at school rn

im pretty sure you didn't go through elementary school as the only one of your race in the whole school

i got told "stupid asian go back to china" more times than i can count

its not just the overt racism, its also the constant assumption that you don't belong

nope! i went to a catholic school and never once did i hear about racial groups in the school fighting each other or spewing insults.

why would anyone willfully GO BACK to china lmao

I'm sorry to hear that floof

when i moved schools, they asked me "where are you from" and i told em i moved from like an hour away

then its always "no where are you *really* from"

Mine was always white trash get out of here

Well people are tribal when it comes to that and it always ends up with that "us vs them" mentality

if you don’t look like a part of the native-born majority (white/black), is it not at least understandable that people might have thought you were an exchange student

i think you are assuming way too much malice out of a question like that

i mean someone asking where youre from isnt really racism is it

they just want to know where youre from

yes after i literally tell them that i moved from an hour away they don't buy that as an answer

when i went to the US with my mom on vacation when people heard our accent they would always ask where im from because its obvious im not a native (from my speech)

the same will probably ring true when i move here

Floof people are not used to seeing stuff they are not used to see normally so it is natural to have that reaction

theyre literally just interested

when i asked my buddy dongyeon where he was from, he said “Georgia”, to which i asked “oh cool, you born and raised there? or were you from elsewhere before?” and he said “yeah, i was born and partly raised in South Korea.”

this is a normal and expectable conversation to have. it isn’t meant to be aggressive or hateful.

its nothing mean or malicious

yeah

most of the time when you tell people were you were born n stuff, the reaction is like 'oh cool'

i know its not mean or malicious, it just really irks me when the base assumption is that im not from here

usually people don’t “buy” it when you say you’re local because they have previous experience with individuals who are new to a place like you coming from other countries. this isn’t meant to be an attempt to tell you you don’t belong.

when i was born and raised an american its still assumed that im not from here

I still have people asking what state I come from when I talk

why not just answer “i was born and raised in the United States” then and kill them having to ask follow-up questions

yeah same

Its okay if that bothers you Floof

i don’t look like most of the people in my city