[Gemme]

Originally Posted by Loren_Q

"Where are you from?"
"What's your nationality?"
"What are you?"

I got these a lot growing up. The 'nationality' one got weird because I'm an American. Here's a sample exchange:

Them: What's your nationality?
Me: I'm an American.
Them: No, I mean, where are you from?
Me: Originally from Arizona but have lived most of my life in California
Them: No, before that.
Me: I wasn't around before that.

I can relate to this somewhat. I get 'Where are you from?" a LOT. It's my eyes. They are more exotic than the average person's. The rest of me is as average as you can get but that one feature throws people and I've had a group stand in front of me and try to determine my origins. Like I wasn't even there.

I've had people feel they have the right to tell me to take off my glasses, so they can get a better look at my eyes and figure me out. That happened at work.

I don't really go to bars anymore because I got tired of being told that I am high. What almond shaped eyes have to do with being high is beyond me (I'm making the assumption it comes from the whole heavy lidded 'bedroom eyes' thing but I can't say for sure what goes through people's minds), but if I avoid the places where shit like that normally occurs I don't have to deal with it.

There are a lot of people in this world that feel the need to disassemble someone's parts, one by one, especially if one of those parts don't mesh with what 'they' feel it should be.

Sorry that people can be such ignorant jackasses.