You are "from" where you were born and raised, not where your parents, grandparents etc were born and raised. amirite?

Coming off a heated St. Patrick's Day debate, I see.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

The Irish government disagrees. You can get full Irish citizenship through great grandparents.

by Kuvaliskelsi 1 month ago

Not unless you live in Ireland you can't. And even then it's a discretionary thing not automatic. Unless at least one parent or an Irish-born grandparent was an Irish citizen at the time of your birth, you have no automatic right to Irish citizenship on the basis of extended previous ancestry (that is, ancestors other than your parents or grandparents).  Citizenship by Irish descent or Irish associations The Minster for Justice can waive some of the conditions of becoming an Irish citizen where the applicant is of Irish descent or association. This is at the discretion of the Minister. Irish descent or association means that you are related by blood or adoption to an Irish citizen, or to someone entitled to be an Irish citizen. If you are considering making an application based on Irish descent or association, you should note the following: You should have a reasonable period of legal residence in Ireland (at least 3 years) to show that you have a connection to Ireland. Applications based on descent from an Irish citizen going further back than a great-grandparent are generally refused.

by Livid-Lemon 1 month ago

Thank you for this update. This was not always the case. Ireland used to have one of the loosest nationality policies along with Italy in Europe.

by Kuvaliskelsi 1 month ago

I don't know when the specific rules changed, I just know a lot of British people (myself included) have looked this up since 2016

by Livid-Lemon 1 month ago

It's only if one of your grandparents was born in Ireland. I think it used to be great grandparents, but it's not any longer, which is why I couldn't get EU citizenship after the debacle that was Brexit.

by AppealGlittering8044 1 month ago

My grandparent was born in Ireland but grew up in England and never registered the birth of my parent with the Irish authorities who also never registered me. So I don't get to have an EU passport. Hilarious the idea that you get to be Irish just because your great grandparent was lol. The rules for becoming Irish can be waved if your great grandparent was Irish...and you actually live in Ireland. But that's obviously a whole different thing

by Livid-Lemon 1 month ago

And the role exists to get skilled FOREIGNERS to nice in

by Haagshania 1 month ago

if the US decides to do a fascism Too late

by florianbayer 1 month ago

'You can get' is the important part. It's not 'you have'. You can be Irish if you apply and get Irish citizenship.

by Limp_Indication3762 1 month ago

CAN get, not already have.

by Pbarrows 1 month ago

I understand that if you don't live in the U.S. you miss out on context. But i never reallly understood this argument. When people in the U.S. say "I'm Irish" (or anything else) generally it's just short hand for "I have Irish ancestry." Obviously there are exceptions since some people are oddly hard core about their ancestry. But generally speaking, yes people in the U.S. know they aren't actually Irish. (Or whatever they claim as their ancestry).

by shilpert 1 month ago

Plus OP talks about where people are from in the title but in the text spends the whole time talking about nationality/ethnicity.

by Shot_Willingness9316 1 month ago

I think there's a lot of people who don't understand the difference between nationality and ethnicity.

by Useful-Status 1 month ago

And there are a lot of folks that don't understand American vernacular.

by Mckenzieserena 1 month ago

Because they don't want to take the 13 seconds it takes to google it and understand our culture but they want to constantly feel like a victim and bitch about it

by bruensim 1 month ago

And it's usually a good short hand for what your family's traditions are. My family is German, all my great-grandparents came from a couple areas of Bavaria and handed down their traditions and foods. Saying "oh, I'm German" carries that heritage and culture forward.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I came in here ready to point out that where your parents are from is relevant because they teach their culture. But that is not relevant here haha, this is about the once a year Irishish

by Minute_Regular 1 month ago

People tend to forget that there were times where Irish people were treated as bad, or worse than, black people in America. That's why Saint Patrick's Day is such a big deal here. Similarly, that's why Columbus Day is a big deal for Italian-Americans

by Anonymous 1 month ago

This is the core of it. America has gone through many exclusionary (let's just call them racist) stages throughout its history. The target of exclusion has changed over time... Irish, Italian, Puerto Rican, Asian, Mexican, black folk seem to have lifetime memberships, etc. but there's always been one group, or several, that are passively excluded from the 'mainstream' or actively pushed out. When individuals are pushed out of an 'in-group' they tend to look for other ways to carve their own identity. In America, the easiest way to do that has been to look back at your parents and where they came from and to fervently attach yourself to the 'country of origin'. Ironically, most hyphenated Americans end up just adopting almost cartoon-like personas of the nationalities they claim. I've often argued that black folk have been the only ones who have really created an identity of their own that isn't an exaggerated caricature of their backgrounds.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure people haven't forgotten, they didn't even know. At least I'm sure that where I come from it's not being taught in history class.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

That's what I was thinking 🤣🤣🤣

by Odd-Violinist 1 month ago

You know it. I had a buddy that claimed he could drink more than everyone because he was "Irish". Sorry B your great x5 grandfather may have immigrated from Ireland but you're just an alcoholic Texan.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

And what if you are born in one place and raised elsewhere?

by Dickinsonandre 1 month ago

lol i was raised in 4 different countries and my parents are from 2 different countries. i legit don't have a straight answer that feels accurate

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Where were you raised? In the military.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

nope, not a military kid lol, it was all circumstantial believe it or not ¯_(ツ)_/¯ and i was raised between the us and south america

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Exactly, I grew up in two countries, have dual citizenship, and I'm continually amused at how people try to define and gatekeep each other.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Same here. When people ask me, I know what they are really asking is "explain the part of you that is not from here". I usually start by saying where my parents are from and it's the most straightforward answer I can give them.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I typically say I'm from where I live right now. If they follow up wanting more detail, I say born in Oklahoma, grew up in Texas. If they want even more than that, then all I can tell them is my ancestry is a mutt of the shores of the North Sea.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

That's what I was about to ask, I moved to Canada when I was only a year old and barely remember the country I was born in so idk if I should say that's where I'm from…

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Depends on how long you stayed in the first place. Up to 4 years? Then you're from the first place.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

lol multiple patients have referred to my wife as "that Asian" even though she's white as can be, with big round hazel eyes and freckles. I guess because she's petite and her hair is silky/dark, that's enough for people to think she's got Asian heritage. I think her grandparents are German/Polish. Definitely no Asian in there 🤣

by Brandiabshire 1 month ago

Exactly. I was talking to someone once who seemed like she was probably Indian, including her accent. I didn't want to assume, so I asked her where she was from. She said Michigan. I didn't want to do the, "where are you really from" and let the matter drop, which was too bad as I was interested in hearing about her culture and how she came to be living in a small city in Mississippi. Eventually we did get to the fact that she was Indian and from India (by way of Michigan), and she told me a lot about her family's Diwali plans. I enjoyed learning about it, and she seemed to really enjoy talking about it.

by Alarming_Contact_885 1 month ago

Yeah but the phrasing of "where are you really from" feels malicious because that implies it's so unthinkable that an Asian is "from" America. Much fewer people would be offended if the question was "what's your ethnicity"

by ymohr 1 month ago

Answer: racism Another answer: ignorance

by Anonymous 1 month ago

My uncle José is Chinese and looks dead ass like he just got off the boat. But he has the thickest Hispanic accent you'll ever hear cuz he was born and raised in Mexico.

by Pjohnson 1 month ago

I'm half and I get soooo many people asking me where I'm from and are very unsatisfied when I say "dc"

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Same. Love those "oh, you speak X so well!"

by Anonymous 1 month ago

My husband is an Ethiopian physician who looks South Asian. He was born in Addis and raised in Edison, NJ (ikyk). Anyway we're in the rust belt now. When a patient asks where he is from he just says he's from NJ a) because there's barely enough time allocated per patient to get a proper patient history and b) everyone then just asks where in India is Ethiopia located because of how he looks. They get really confused when he says Africa. Thank you US education system.

by anais42 1 month ago

We must be the same kind of Asian. Nice.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

This happens so often that it's just silly. Source: also Asian American

by Anonymous 1 month ago

We must be the same kind of Asian. There's more than one kind?!?!

by Anonymous 1 month ago

"So where are you from?" "Oh so you're from here?" "So you've lived here your whole life?" "Where are your parents from?" In that exact order. Every time. Ask THEM the same questions and they'll look at you like you're stupid.

by Matildecronin 1 month ago

Hell I'm black and from western North Carolina and I guess there enough races in me that I confuse people. Far as I know I'm mostly black and identify as such but there's enough Cherokee, Irish and who knows what else that people will regularly asks "What are you??" I've gotten then question from people from India, Ghana, Laos and other places.

by Fragrant-Sky 1 month ago

They just want to know where your grandma's from.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

i think someone is confusing nationality with ethnicity…

by giovannifriesen 1 month ago

I think most people have a very simple history. They were born one race and ethnicity in the same country as their ancestors for more generations back than they know their ancestors' names. People like myself exist that confuse such simple people. Mixed race with ancestry from multiple nations and a complicated history of the ancestry. I'm half Indo-Caribbean. This very concept goes over the heads of many people. Also OP said you are where you are born AND raised. Many people are born in one place and raised in another. I was born in the Caribbean (granted it was US territory), raised one year in a different country, then the ret of my life here in the Midwest.

by Eloisa46 1 month ago

Ikr it's giving "I've never left my small town and can drive to all of my extended family within 20 minutes". I felt like I was considered weird growing up, hearing that people baked cookies with their grandma over the weekend while I hadn't seen any family other than my parents in years because they live an ocean and a language barrier away

by dave56 1 month ago

I baked cookies with one grandma and had to make phone calls to have any communication with the other one lol.

by Eloisa46 1 month ago

Because ethnicity makes less sense than most think. Especially if your ethnicity only comes from ancestry. Other than race ethnicity can't be inherited genetically.

by shannoncartwrig 1 month ago

But culture certainly can be inherited, as can genetic traits that we associate with certain ethnicities. I come from a city with a strong German heritage. My great grandpa was born here but grew up speaking German at home. A dish we had frequently as kids was sausage, potatoes, and cabbage. We have beer gardens in the summer and a proud brewing tradition to go with it. I also look northern European, as do a ton of people in the region because guess what, we all are a mix of Northern European ancestry. Why wouldn't we continue to associate with our culture? We are descended from German speaking immigrants who passed down parts of their own cultures. That's a huge part of our culture today.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

My dad has cousins in America who were born there after their parents emigrated from China, and you apparently notice they're American before you notice they're ethnically Chinese. When my mum (who's white) met them in the 90s, she, my dad and my dad's sister were all stunned at how Americanised they were. I guess it's because these particular relatives were actually born in America, while my dad and his sisters were born in Hong Kong and came to England as young kids. So they only culture they've ever known was an Americanised one.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Especially since I've never heard anyone born in the US say they were from somewhere else. And the thing people don't get about America is that we all know everyone here is American, that's not the question being asked. It's a nation of immigrants. No one asks someone in Italy or France where there family is from unless they just mean which other city in that country.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Sounds like OP doesn't understand that there are cultural differences between the US and Europe that affect how we use language. OP should try and be a little more worldy and open to other cultures instead of forcing everyone to use his definition.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

It makes sense though, he's not asking for ethnicity. Specifically "where are you from?". So if your answer is "I'm French and German" than the person answering is the one mistaking.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Who actually says they're from China if they were born in America? OP just sounds confused, like someone told him where their parents were from and somehow that upset him.

by Beginning_Fold 1 month ago

Yeah the examples he gave don't match the title. If someone said "I'm from China", then yes that means they were born and/or raised in China. But "I'm Chinese" does not mean the same thing

by Working-Sink-3203 1 month ago

The dude literally said you are not Chinese if you are born in America. Yes, you are. OP is mistaking ethnicity for nationality.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

People still confusing heritage with nationality

by narcisogreen 1 month ago

"Where he's from, that would be punishable by death." "I'm from Sacramento."

by One_City_4690 1 month ago

DEATH!

by Anonymous 1 month ago

To be fair some of these people also have like zero connection to their heritage not all but some

by Anonymous 1 month ago

There's a difference between being Chinese and being from China though.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Exactly. My grandparents are from China but my dad and his sisters were all born in Hong Kong (then a British territory), so my dad has never actually been a Chinese citizen.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

It makes sense to people of Asian descent (like myself) but so many Caucasian people insist that you couldn't possibly be "from here" because you're Asian. They associate "American" with "White".

by Anonymous 1 month ago

"Perpetual Foreigner" stereotype.

by volson 1 month ago

Literally in South East Asia, people understand that difference. There are people of Chinese heritage and ancestry who lives and are citizens in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, etc that are assimilated into their local culture but also retains some of the culture that originated in mainland China pre-communism.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Even when you tell people, "Im from (American City)," I'll still get that annoyed "No I mean 'where are you from?" question right after. So what does it even matter..

by Lonely-Public1584 1 month ago

Even when you tell people, "Im from (American City)," I'll still get that annoyed "No I mean 'where are you from?" question right after. So what does it even matter.. I solved this "where are you from originally? with this: "Theory has it that humans originally came from the Serengeti Plains" That usually shuts them down

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Some people are just asking for your story to strike up a conversation and learn a little about you. Your heritage is different from most people they know, and that can be interesting. A lot of times the original immigrants took a big risk to make the move. That should be inspiring, not hidden behind evasions of the question.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

You are still ethnically Chinese. Borders or feelings do not change your ethnicity.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Yeah, by OP's logic Uyghurs probably don't exist because they are all born in China

by Most_Consequence_930 1 month ago

That's not how it works. Uyghurs can be Chinese since Xinjiang is in China. They're still Uyghurs though since they're born and raised in the Uyghur part of China, in a primarily Uyghur culture. It's like saying OP is implying Texans don't exist because they're all born in USA. That's not what they're saying at all

by Possible-Being 1 month ago

So there are no Uyghurs born outside Xianjing?

by Most_Consequence_930 1 month ago

Well of course there are. The Uyghur culture isn't just from Xinjiang. It extends into many central Asian nations. It's kinda like how the Flemish culture exists in a few nations, or the Roma culture exists across many nations. A Uyghur child born in Kazakhstan is very much a Uyghur since that's still the heartland of where that culture is from. Now if a child was born to Uyghur parents who moved to Texas, the child - in my opinion - is still culturally Uyghur to some extent, but is very very likely to be more like a Texan than a Uyghur. I think that's what OP is trying to say. What OP is

by Possible-Being 1 month ago

...and now we are getting closer. So what if Irish culture and communities extend to other countries, for example the USA, too?

by Most_Consequence_930 1 month ago

To be fair this is probably to those people that nationalists of a nation whose culture, language, and customs they are foreign to

by Anonymous 1 month ago

He wasn't talking about ethnicity though was he and if you want go down that road that would make no one in America an American except the native Americans.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Op said "from".

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Yes, but not culturally or nationally

by dachwade 1 month ago

Ethnicity, race, and nationality really do tear y'alls asses up on a regular basis, huh.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

So then we really should only be calling people who immigrated here themselves African Americans right? The rest are Americans.

by nfisher 1 month ago

Well, yes. I'm sure Africans would agree. And Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa and has a US citizenship, fits "African-American" a lot more than someone whose ancestors have been in the US since before its independence, and before many people that just call themselves "Americans" immigrated. That person should just be called American. Unless only the natives get to call themselves Americans and then the rest are all called immigrants, but I think that would get a lot of opposition.

by aschmidt 1 month ago

"African Americans" are considered a unique ethnic group of the US. People from any country in Africa would just refer to themselves as that Country-American.

by Kuphallelia 1 month ago

Or more likely, because they are being purposefuly obtuse.

by Most_Consequence_930 1 month ago

I agree with you, people who refuse to recognise this are being obtuse

by Most_Consequence_930 1 month ago

The people being purposely obtuse are the kinds of people who think Africa is a country, yeah.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

No, they aren't. Africa is a continent. People from African countries know which country they're from. They just call us African American because we have no idea.

by Happy-Double 1 month ago

I'm so excited for the first baby the on the moon to be called an alien and no longer human.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Why wouldn't it be a human? It would just be a human from the moon.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Extraterrestrial though

by Most_Consequence_930 1 month ago

A lunatic perhaps

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Yes, this is the way. When the moon gets colonized I want to be among the first. I'll take a handful of lackeys with me, and we'll take over rule by force. That way I can declare myself King of the Lunatics.

by Malindanitzsche 1 month ago

A human alien would not be a contradiction.

by Routine_Fault3505 1 month ago

No fr they said "you might get some parts of chinese culture but you arent chinese" does that mean we're only classified by "american" and our race now? Because individual countries dont have differences?

by Anonymous 1 month ago

My gran was born in Cork but raised in Leeds to parents who were born in England. And weren't her actual parents. Her actual parents were also raised in England. Yet still I can get an Irish passport

by Initial-Long 1 month ago

I say "my paternal grandparents are from…."

by Anonymous 1 month ago

This is what I do too. People ask about my last name a lot so I usually just answer "My grandfather was Armenian…"

by Leola98 1 month ago

Race, ethnicity, and nationality are three separate things.

by Potential-Help 1 month ago

All the Americans I've been around say they are <insert ethnicity> if they get asked what they are not where they're from, so I don't know what you're going on about. Ethnicity and nationality are not the same.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I think you're confused about the difference between somebody's birthplace and somebody's heritage. Most people who say "I am Irish" aren't talking about their place of birth, and you would be stupid to assume otherwise.

by OutrageousBag 1 month ago

I think you're making two different claims here and conflating them into one. I'm Chinese-American. I agree with you that I am not "from China." I've never even been to China. But that doesn't mean that I'm not Chinese-American. And among my Chinese-American friends, we often say we're Chinese, not because we think we are "from China," but simply as a shorthand for "Chinese-American" -- in the context of our lives, it seems so obvious that we're American that that part doesn't always need to be said explicitly.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Nobody says they're from somewhere they weren't born and raised. Using the word "from" and naming the country isn't the same as using the adjectival form of that country's name to describe ancestry. Your title and your examples aren't in line with each other

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Funny you mention Irish, I am Irish and my family lived here for hundreds/thousands of years, my surname is of Spanish origin (it's not like Garcia or anything typical Spanish sounding) and I have a Spanish nose. Your question is aimed at Americans isn't it? Happy Paddy's Day

by Anonymous 1 month ago

As a first generation Mexican American. A whole lot of people would disagree with you calling me American. And they're not my friends either

by cmuller 1 month ago

Nationality ≠ ethnicity. If you're born in the US to Chinese parents, you are ethnically Chinese but your nationality is American.

by Carsonleffler 1 month ago

How about hear me put, people can decide for themselves with what nationality they want to identify? If someone is born in Turkey and moved to Germany, integrates and identifies more with German culture and this calls himself a German then let him be German. If you are born to Indian parents in America, were raised speaking Hindi and raised in that culture and you call yourself Indian than that is fine too. Crazy idea I know

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Chinese American. Doesn't work like that in America, it's a nation of immigrants.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I think some of the issues stems from American culture, where are you from? Answer is obviously America, they are really asking culturally. I'm "Irish" but only when it's clear they aren't asking where I was born or grew up because for all of us, the answer is America.

by Hschimmel 1 month ago

You're not a Chinese citizen but you still have Chinese heritage.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Not everyone is raised where they are born.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

And some people move many times.

by Artistic_Elk 1 month ago

This is getting complicated.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

As a middle-eastern/south Asian (depending on who you ask) immigrant who moved to Canada at the ripe old age of 10, I find the whole question and idea about nationality/ethnicity/culture redundant and stupid.

by United-Composer 1 month ago

American is not an ethnicity. An American's ethnicity is determined by ancestry.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

What if you're born in a different country from where you're raised and your parents have a different nationality in the place you were raised? And your parents have different nationalities? I get what you mean tho

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Lol my man, this can be unpopular ONLY in the USA Literally all the rest of the world think like that.

by Glad_Ad9140 1 month ago

The thing is, people in america see americans with chinese parents chinese

by Anonymous 1 month ago

When people feel the need to explain my culture to me

by Pretend-Sprinkles 1 month ago

You never lose your heritage, whether Irish, Asian, African, or other. My ancestors (mostly) came from England, France and Germany 200 to nearly 400 years ago - 1630) and I have attributes of them all. However, if anyone asks me where I am from, I still say Philadelphia.

by Parisiancharles 1 month ago

When Americans say we're Irish or German or whatever, it's taken to mean "my ancestors are from". We're not literally saying we're German or whatever. The vast majority of us have ancestors not from this country, and we often will talk about where they moved here from. So that's what that means. When I say I'm German I'm saying "my ancestor who moved to this country did so from Germany".

by Anonymous 1 month ago

This is true if you're white-passing; otherwise being othered is a salient part of your experience.

by Fmaggio 1 month ago

Man, you are in for a surprise when you take an ancestry DNA test

by Altruistic_Object 1 month ago

File this under conversations black Americans never have.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I have found that Americans that identify strongly with their ethnicity typically grew up in a community where that ethnicity was very predominate. I've found that people that grew up in those types of communities tend to: A. Care a lot about what your ethnicity is. B. Have very strong opinions about other ethnicities. For people that didn't grow up in those types of communities, ethnicity is usually a novelty to be trotted out on holidays (like today).

by Emeliestark 1 month ago

But I have a swiss passport and an American passport with swiss parents 🤔 but was born in America and live in Switzerland.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

It makes you American.

by shannoncartwrig 1 month ago

Sure but not indigenous

by Anonymous 1 month ago

This isn't an unpopular opinion this is what every European who doesn't understand the difference between heritage, ethnicity, and nationality believe.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I mean, yes, this is true. I was born in Russia, lived half my childhood (9 years) in Russia and the other half in Australia. In April it will be 20 years since I arrived in Australia, but people still see me as Russian lmao.

by Maleficent-Store 1 month ago

It's like "italians" everywhere in montreal that only go to italian cafes, even somehow have thick italian accents, yet most of them have been to italy 0 times lol. Some cultures just stick so much for some reason.

by Soggy_Comparison 1 month ago

I'm Irish American and no amount of complaining from Europeans on the internet how I identify.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

The confidence in being SO ignorant and wrong about nationality and heritage. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

by Nlebsack 1 month ago

ethnicity would still be chinese for your example . nationality would be America

by Similar-Occasion-802 1 month ago

What you say is true.. however, this is not what the majority of people mean when they ask..

by Virgilwillms 1 month ago

I was born in Central America, grew up all over the world and ended up living in Vegas. Where am I from, OP?

by Anonymous 1 month ago

It's almost like there's this thing where people can belong to more than one culture at the same time.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Yeah you don't get to tell people where they're from lol if they identify more with their cultural home then that's where they're from

by Adventurous-Fig-2716 1 month ago

Spending St. Patty's alone I see.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

This is just a semantic game, isn't it? I am from Arstotzka, it's where my ancestors came from, I look like them, I appreciate it's culture, etc. There's nothing wrong with having pride in your ethnicity, as long as you're genuinely not holding yourself above other people (who have equally valid pride).

by Anonymous 1 month ago

This is coming from a 1st gen Mexican-American. I always feel like to certain people I'm not from here and when they ask where I'm from they're definitely referring to my family's origin. But if you go to Mexico and ask them if they feel like Mexicans born in the US are Mexican a lot of them say no. We're kinda stuck in this middle ground. Too American for my parents country but too Mexican for this one to just be American.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Damn who pissed you off today? Well I'm born and live in the UK but my family is Jamaican. I'll represent Jamaica everyday for the rest of my life over Great Britain.

by Odd-Violinist 1 month ago

Wrong. You can't erase our culture. Viet Americans are viet.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

This isn't unpopular, it's often (usually, I'd say) what "where are you from" means. Sometimes from context the question about your ethnic origins, where you grew up, where you live currently if you are abroad etc.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

My great grandmother is Finnish

by Anonymous 1 month ago

This is not an unpopular opinion at all. Only Americans are against this thinking,

by Leatha32 1 month ago

This is only unpopular in the US

by No-Aioli-1092 1 month ago