salm wrote: what´s the problem? if i meet a interracial person i might ask him where he´s from. he might say he´s from hamburg. so i ask him where he´s originally from and he says he´s from hamburg. so i ask him where his ancestors are from because obviously a part of them are not from hamburg and he answers that his dad is from eritreia. end of problem. waste of energy to get pissed off by something like that.
That the speaker assumes I can trace my origins is an example of the FOB stereotype. That line of questions shows that you assumed that person was not from from Hamburg, and was somehow different from all the other Hamburgers. I consider myself an American. It bothers me to have it constantly shown that most people don't think of me that way. Every time this conversation takes place, it reminds me that Asians are a separate (but equal) race, unlike Real Americans.
