Comments on: “Where are you from?” http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/ I see, I hear and I feel. And then I blog it. Sun, 20 May 2012 09:39:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: mooiness http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/comment-page-1/#comment-4205 mooiness Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:10:27 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/#comment-4205 rachael: "what is your heritage" is sorta similar to "where are you from" but true - yours is more tactful. Asking where one's from automatically assumes that you must be an immigrant. ;) rachael: “what is your heritage” is sorta similar to “where are you from” but true – yours is more tactful. Asking where one’s from automatically assumes that you must be an immigrant. ;)

]]> By: rachael http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/comment-page-1/#comment-4204 rachael Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:32:54 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/#comment-4204 when i say "sydney" nobody believes me. or then i say, "i'm local", because after sydney i moved to perth. then it goes, "where are your parents from?" i could write a fill in the blanks script. a more genteel way of asking these kinds of questions lies in asking, "what is your heritage?" i think this is a more tactful way, and implies that they want to know about your background as a person, not what race or ethnic group you fit into. 5c when i say “sydney” nobody believes me. or then i say, “i’m local”, because after sydney i moved to perth. then it goes, “where are your parents from?” i could write a fill in the blanks script.

a more genteel way of asking these kinds of questions lies in asking, “what is your heritage?” i think this is a more tactful way, and implies that they want to know about your background as a person, not what race or ethnic group you fit into.

5c

]]> By: mooiness http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/comment-page-1/#comment-3797 mooiness Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:33:33 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/#comment-3797 emiriyo: heh that's a good one. emiriyo: heh that’s a good one.

]]> By: emiriyoshikawa http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/comment-page-1/#comment-3796 emiriyoshikawa Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:30:07 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/#comment-3796 Sometimes they're just trying to strike up a conversation... I'll tell them "i don't really know, my mum never told me about it" Sometimes they’re just trying to strike up a conversation… I’ll tell them “i don’t really know, my mum never told me about it”

]]> By: mooiness http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/comment-page-1/#comment-3790 mooiness Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:11:27 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/#comment-3790 v.u.: no idea myself. I just go with the flow. ;) v.u.: no idea myself. I just go with the flow. ;)

]]> By: virgin_undergrad http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/comment-page-1/#comment-3788 virgin_undergrad Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:32:17 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/#comment-3788 yeah, was about to ask you waddsup with the ang moh facination about japanese ppl. me and my friends got quizzed several times at the Deen about whether or not we're jap. and when we tell them that we're singaporean and they just go 'oh..' yeah, was about to ask you waddsup with the ang moh facination about japanese ppl. me and my friends got quizzed several times at the Deen about whether or not we’re jap. and when we tell them that we’re singaporean and they just go ‘oh..’

]]> By: mooiness http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/comment-page-1/#comment-3784 mooiness Sun, 26 Mar 2006 15:11:35 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/#comment-3784 cherry: Swedish! Good one! cupcakequeen: link away! koyuuken: then they'd try and speak broken Japanese with you. Screw that. :P ally: I think the confusion lies in the fact that they think "Malay" is the term for citizens of Malaysia, as opposed to the race. Hence, "how can you be Malaysian AND Chinese???" ;) snowflake: ah, good response there. Mental note. Maybe I can get to use it. cherry: Swedish! Good one!

cupcakequeen: link away!

koyuuken: then they’d try and speak broken Japanese with you. Screw that. :P

ally: I think the confusion lies in the fact that they think “Malay” is the term for citizens of Malaysia, as opposed to the race. Hence, “how can you be Malaysian AND Chinese???” ;)

snowflake: ah, good response there. Mental note. Maybe I can get to use it.

]]> By: Snowflake http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/comment-page-1/#comment-3783 Snowflake Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:43:57 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/#comment-3783 I can totally identify with that! Normally I just say I am Australian and most would stop there. But those who keep on asking and asking .... Then I will tell them a long winded story something like "My parents are 100% Chinese, I am born in blah blah blah .... and now blah blah blah blah blah" Then I will NEVER FAIL TO ASK "So where do YOU come from?" Most would say Australia. If I am pissed off that day, I would add "No no, where is your ancestories?? Because you don't look aboriginal to me." They then will see my point. I can totally identify with that!
Normally I just say I am Australian and most would stop there.

But those who keep on asking and asking …. Then I will tell them a long winded story something like “My parents are 100% Chinese, I am born in blah blah blah …. and now blah blah blah blah blah”

Then I will NEVER FAIL TO ASK “So where do YOU come from?”

Most would say Australia. If I am pissed off that day, I would add “No no, where is your ancestories?? Because you don’t look aboriginal to me.”

They then will see my point.

]]> By: ally http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/comment-page-1/#comment-3782 ally Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:23:22 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/#comment-3782 OMG i know exactly what u mean its really quite irritating!! especially when u say ur malaysian and they're like oh...so ur malay? and ur like..no i'm CHINESE then there's a pause before they say...but u just said u were from malaysia. seriously! how long have they been living among asians?! melbourne is FLOODED with them and u assume everyone from malaysia is malay?! thick headed dolts OMG i know exactly what u mean its really quite irritating!!

especially when u say ur malaysian and they’re like oh…so ur malay? and ur like..no i’m CHINESE

then there’s a pause before they say…but u just said u were from malaysia.

seriously! how long have they been living among asians?! melbourne is FLOODED with them and u assume everyone from malaysia is malay?!

thick headed dolts

]]> By: koyuuken http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/comment-page-1/#comment-3780 koyuuken Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:09:07 +0000 http://mooiness.com/2006/03/26/where-are-you-from/#comment-3780 I will tell "I'm japanese!" Heuheuheuheuheuhue! I will tell “I’m japanese!” Heuheuheuheuheuhue!

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