"What is your background?"
"What is your heritage/race/ethnicity/ancestry/lineage?"
It is not okay to say:
"Where are you from?" if you want to ask someone for their ethnicity
"Where are you REALLY from?" after asking "where are you from?" and getting a literal answer
"Why is your English so good?" without asking for a person's background first
"Your English is perfect!" without knowing the person's background, unless you are editing a written piece of work.
"What is your REAL name?" after asking the person for their name.
"Are you Japanese? Are you Korean? Are you Chinese?" if you want to know what their background is. Why are you guessing and making assumptions based on your own silly stereotype????
It is also not okay to:
- Shout random asian languages to me as I'm walking down the street, such as "konnichiwa" or "ni hao"
- Attribute how i am or things i do to my race/ethnicity/ancestry/lineage, no i don't like shopping because I am Chinese, no the pasta im cooking is not chinese, no i don't like the cold even if i'm from canada, and no I don't speak French in Toronto even if I'm from Canada
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Wow. It's tough out in Europe isn't it :)
not that bad. happens from time to time, but it does irritate me quite a bit. My bf says i need to not let these things bother me. i think he's right...lol
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