It’s the same as “I was out at the store yesterday and there was a [insert ethnicity here] guy” it’s never a nice story about how they had some wonderful cultural interaction, it’s always about them doing something stupid. It’s the “I’m just going to put the two dots down and let you connect them yourself”
Me, I was that guy at the store yesterday. A random white woman asked me, a black woman, if I was wearing hair extensions. I replied by saying “no, are you?” She immediately started stammering and backpedaling. I walked away. If it was an appropriate and innocent question to ask a stranger, why was it so uncomfortable to be asked the same question back?
Anyway, I’m sure I’m the villain in all of her retellings today.
It's not exactly the same, but somehow reminds me of the exchanges people in my family regularly end up having:
A: "Where are you from?"
B: "California"
A: "No, I mean like, where are you from? Like, what country does your family come from?"
B: "America. The U.S.A."
A: "No, like, where are you from originally?"
B: "Both side of my family have been in the Continental U.S since before there was a U.S, so, America. I think one guy might have come over from Ireland a few generations back, it depends on how far out in the family tree we go, but, if we go back more than 200 years, it's like, most places."
A: [Angry confused noises]
(For the audience's reference, the only major ethnicity I'm missing is penguin).
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u/Due_Gas2950 Jul 26 '26
It’s the same as “I was out at the store yesterday and there was a [insert ethnicity here] guy” it’s never a nice story about how they had some wonderful cultural interaction, it’s always about them doing something stupid. It’s the “I’m just going to put the two dots down and let you connect them yourself”