"So .. where you from?" Does it ever annoy you how the people "are" from somewhere where they are no
One thing I never understood : how can someone born in USA, whose parents, and even grandparents, list a long list of nationalities and claim that s/he is that?
"I'm Irish, Italian, French, German, Finnish, Polish, and Korean."
Wait? You, your parents, and your grandparents are American, all born in USA. What makes you exactly what you claim you are?
Do you have any cultural clues of where you say you are from? Have you ever lived there? Do you speak the language? Do you have the citizenship or the real nationality of those places? Can you get the citizenship just because of your ancestry? How much do you understand of that culture?
Most of the people who are "from" a lot of places .. don't speak the language, don't have the citizenship, usually have been never there or once as a tourist, and don't have a clue about anything from that or those cultures.
As a correct answer from my side for my ethnic clues - I am African. One of my ancestors was called Lucy, and no, I haven't been to Africa ever, I don't speak any African language (unless we count English and Portuguese), I have very few clues of anything African...
"I'm Irish, Italian, French, German, Finnish, Polish, and Korean."
Wait? You, your parents, and your grandparents are American, all born in USA. What makes you exactly what you claim you are?
Do you have any cultural clues of where you say you are from? Have you ever lived there? Do you speak the language? Do you have the citizenship or the real nationality of those places? Can you get the citizenship just because of your ancestry? How much do you understand of that culture?
Most of the people who are "from" a lot of places .. don't speak the language, don't have the citizenship, usually have been never there or once as a tourist, and don't have a clue about anything from that or those cultures.
As a correct answer from my side for my ethnic clues - I am African. One of my ancestors was called Lucy, and no, I haven't been to Africa ever, I don't speak any African language (unless we count English and Portuguese), I have very few clues of anything African...