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this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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In America, that's also a question white people get. Melting pot with several historically recent waves of mass migration tends to keep those questions alive.
Yep, it's funny about the levels of "whiteness" you can be.
I'm not white and when I told this to some Ethiopian & Somalian school friends growing up they told me "well, you're not black".
What I meant to say is: White people don't treat me as though I'm white. Which is really the important detail.
It's also very interesting to have people try to decode my race/origin. Some people have guessed middle eastern, french?, Italian, First Nations.
This is why I said I've noticed that some people put a lot of emphasis on your race (so they ask you) and it is important to then for how they perceive you.