Only white people...

eastafrobeauty
Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:50:24 +0000

really??! I rarely hear white people discussing their heritage. Unless of course it just slips its way into a conversation.

Last time I remember, during my freshman year gov’t class our entire class had to do an assignment discussing our complete heritage (in the fractions & percents of what you are LOL)…and then we had to share it with everyone else.It was then when I had realized that white ppl (the ones over here) are basically mixed up with a bunch of different european countries.

But if someone were to ever randomly ask a white person “where are they’re from” the answer is gonna most likely be American.

But, if it’s a non-white person…it depends b/c they could answer your question by saying that they’re:

a. American

b. from so and so state

c. describe their heritage/ethnicity–probably most common if the person happens to be mixed.

However, when I used to live in the Middle East…the city i lived in was pretty diverse…so people asking you where you’re from was quite common. So if they’d ask that they most likely would be wondering what your heritage/background is…then they’d probably also ask you “what’s your nationality”.

So if someone were to ask me, “where are you from” I would give them a detailed answer…lol. B/c I was born in a different state lived in two other states for a while…and lived in a foreign country for most of my life :/

But for some odd reason I never say that I’m American first…I might tell them I’m a Somali-American or Somali-Arab or just Somali (depends on where I am)…