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kleinbl00  ·  3318 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How the question "Where are you from?" comes with baggage for immigrants and POC

Dude, they ask about my wife, too, and her name is about as Teutonic as you could possibly imagine (most people on Facebook spell it with a ß). AND she looks the part - chick coulda walked off the pages of Heidi and you'd think nothing of it.

The same people who will ask about European-sounding names are the exact same ones that aren't allowed to ask about names from literally anywhere else.