Bavarianbrit
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Life's too short for this poo IMO, just get on and enjoy.
Is this what this country is coming too
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I came here when I was 10 from Rhodesia. It took 15 ish years for the accent to fully disappear and I used to get asked all the time where I came from. I used to say ‘ a place a lot warmer than this coup!’ Never bothered me once. On very odd occasions the accent makes a little reappearance, usually when I’m getting a bit fired up over something..like lying under my landrover fixin it. Or the missus…
I'm glad for you that you have never been made to feel like you are not from the country of your birth on a regular basis... To those who have, it's not quite something that can be just turned aside like that.
I came here when I was 10 from Rhodesia. It took 15 ish years for the accent to fully disappear and I used to get asked all the time where I came from. I used to say ‘ a place a lot warmer than this coup!’ Never bothered me once. On very odd occasions the accent makes a little reappearance, usually when I’m getting a bit fired up over something..like lying under my landrover fixin it. Or the missus…
Maybe it never bothered you because you're not British born and bred?
Pighunter
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I'd forgotten about this picture taken in August last year celebrating the upcoming boar season.
Seems us Bajans, black and white, like to dress up in odd tribal gear and party, must be something to do with carnival.
I hadn't thought of changing my name to Mtusky Keillerbutu though.....
Seems us Bajans, black and white, like to dress up in odd tribal gear and party, must be something to do with carnival.
I hadn't thought of changing my name to Mtusky Keillerbutu though.....
In Las Vegas at the card tables a group of Lancashire lads having a gamble. In conversation with the young lady Croupier who was struggling to understand the broad Lanky accent when asking us what we wanted to do ( as in bet). She said to one of the lads sarcastically your not from round here are you. Quick fire answer was no luv we're from Whittle-le-Woods, near Chorley, have you ever been? Classic.
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I don’t think so mate. Just think it’s okay to ask folk where their from. Been around a bit in life and met a bunch of different folk. Seems to me we are all kinda the same.
There's nothing wrong with asking where folk are from. But again, my point is, people aren't asking where I am from. Because apparently when I answer "Glasgow", and that I am British, I still am not reaaaally from there...
Happy if people move the conversation on and chit chat to find out more about where my family comes from etc, what part of China did they originate from before all the moving around generations ago. But as I tried to point out to Fair Hill, there is not real moving the conversation on. I always just get asked repeatedly "but where are you really from" or "what nationality are you really?"
Yes, of course it's OK to ask people where they're from. What's not OK is to refuse to accept their answer.
For example, if you ask a black bloke where he's from, and he says Birmingham, and you accept that, it's fine. You have no reason to doubt that his answer is correct. What's not OK is to assume that because he's black he must have been born into some cannibal tribe in the back of beyond, and therefore must be lying when he tells you he's from Birmingham, so continually press him for another answers that satisfies your preconceptions. Unfortunately, that's the attitude that non-white British born citizens have to put up with on a daily basis.
I'd also say, we can try it out like this. I'll make the assumption that you are white (forgive if you are not). Therefore by the conversational logic that has driven this whole issue, my question to you after you tell me were you are from, is "well you're not really from rhodesia are you. So where are you really from?"
Ok. When people ask me where I’m from I say a little place called Dalgety bay. Lived there and went to school there and locally before leaving the area for a time during military service but as far as I’m concerned that’s home to me. Hard to not remember Africa mind. I’m white. If I tell someone I came here from Rhodesia they usually don’t know where that is.
So, using a similar "conversational route" to that of Lady Hussey's (and one I've had to experience many a time).
Q: Where are you from?
A: Dalgety Bay
Q: No, but where are you really from?
A: Rhodesia
Q: Well okay, but then where are you really really from?
A: ##Wherever your ancestors from the 1800s were from before they colonised.
I think it could of been worse if she had asked her "who did your hair"
You would if you had been picked to play for Scotland.
I've already represented Ireland in my chosen sports so that issue would not arise.
jimmy milnes
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I, nor anyone else on here knows what the elderly lady was thinking or implying but however I too could possibly see where the confusion maybe arose.
We, as a very mixed country have many people from many different countries all living on our island, so if the lady I was speaking to was dressed like she was originally from another country, had changed her name to sound more like people from her ancestry and such like then perhaps they should understand someone being a little inquisitive.
I do feel that this lady of colour is making a mountain of a mole hill to further her own ends.
Jimmy.
You must be lying about where you come from, because you're white. People who come from Rhodesia are black. Where do you really come from?
And so on......
(Of course I don't think you're lying about where you come from, but hopefully you get the idea. This is an irritating little conversation that you're probably fed up with by now. Me too. It must be pretty sickening for someone who gets it all the time).
Morkai
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Its because some people are stupid & ignorant.
I always want to know about people's heritage (mainly for the food side).
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