As someone who's half-white, half-Asian (and looks predominantly Asian) I often hear questions like "where are you from? Like, where are your parents from?"
I'm not sure I see this as a 'micro-agression.' Or aggression at all, it's just a question. People ask me where my ancestors came from, and I tell them Scotland and Finland. No big deal. It's pretty clear I'm not native american.
Sometimes I also get asked where I grew up. I tell them. Nosy people. If you don't want people to be curious about details in your life, that's kind of anti-social.
After reading most if not all of this debate on microaggressions (first, it's pretty funny that the leading cause of feeling butt-hurt is microagression...) Butt we are not discussing how to move past it, the only relevant discussion once a problem is identified.
can we please get some sort of conensus on how to ask people where they are from, conversationally. I have always thouroughly enjoyed discussing any persons' ethnicity or cultural upbringing within friendly conversation. (also often interested b
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As someone who's half-white, half-Asian (and looks predominantly Asian) I often hear questions like "where are you from? Like, where are your parents from?"
I'm not sure I see this as a 'micro-agression.' Or aggression at all, it's just a question. People ask me where my ancestors came from, and I tell them Scotland and Finland. No big deal. It's pretty clear I'm not native american.
Sometimes I also get asked where I grew up. I tell them. Nosy people. If you don't want people to be curious about details in your life, that's kind of anti-social.
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Alternately, lead by saying, "Does it bother you when people ask what your heritage is?"
Asians try to figure out where each other are from the first time they meet each other too, so really it's no big deal.