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Winjin t1_jegti7y wrote

I don't hide that I'm Russian on Reddit so you can guess that a lot of people are not kind to me

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W-S_Wannabe t1_jegtzby wrote

That I speak Spanish because I am Hispanic.

In college, in the late 90s, I was once criticized for majoring in engineering instead of Chicano studies. By a milk-white blond kid. At UC Berkeley. WTF was I going to do with a Chicano studies degree? It was so far off of my radar I laughed in his face. I wanted a J-O-B when I graduated.

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CCPIsBased t1_jeguw23 wrote

That I am bad at basketball because I am white.

Their assumptions were accurate.

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Xdonjuliox t1_jegweiq wrote

It's usually older white people. But my names julios, so i MUST speak spanish, and they just start speaking very broken spanish to me without me even saying a word

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Regular_Sample_5197 t1_jegx86u wrote

Being as how I’m a white guy from Southern MO, have a “hillbilly” accent, and frankly do kinda look/dress “redneck”. Many people over the years have always assumed that I was racist. Though, the people that actually know me describe me as anything but. I’ve had it both ways. Someone from a minority group just automatically treating me like I’m some mouth breathing klansman. Or, conversely, I’ve had other white folks just automatically assume that I share the same hatful opinions that they have. Either way, I correct them very quickly.

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whitemanwhocantjump t1_jegyi7d wrote

Being a white guy from the south with an accent, probably that I was a racist.

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RandomRandomPenguin t1_jeh0uei wrote

That because I’m East Asian and relatively short I’m sexually submissive and will try to please people

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PegaxS t1_jegvghq wrote

That I am racist, based on nothing but the colour of my skin...

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kobayashimaru68 t1_jegvwy6 wrote

That I have a small dick. Also being short didn't help that.

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randomguyfromafrica t1_jegsz8b wrote

I’m dangerous or that I am stupid because I am black

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Maddax_McCloud t1_jegwikg wrote

I worked in a prison most of my adult life. I know for a fact that there are more shitheads in there that look like me than look like you.

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LiehTzu t1_jegtm34 wrote

Plenty of dangerous, stupid people regardless of race. Just look at congress.

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vin-00 t1_jegulmz wrote

I mainly encounter degrading stereotypes about eastern european women spread by dense men that think that the only eastern european women that exist are either models or work in porn. Got worse since american people know what Ukraine is.

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[deleted] t1_jegv9fr wrote

Because I'm a Southern white boy, people assume I'm conservative or racist or homophobic.

I'm actually a staunch LGBT supporter, my personal politics are very moderate and I'm more attracted to women of color than any other type of woman.

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kuruman67 t1_jeh06x4 wrote

That I must be a Republican and voted for Trump.

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KemesMill t1_jegt816 wrote

I’m ethnic russian because I have russian passport, but I not ethnic russian

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AdmiralBofa t1_jegtok9 wrote

That I can't handle spicy food.

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Lestat30 t1_jegx9b3 wrote

That I must be dumb cuz I'm poor. And that I speak Spanish cuz of my skin color.

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weakassplant t1_jegyrhx wrote

The pan handlers i ask to leave our parking lot at workal always call me racist

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Forschooolproject t1_jegz1wp wrote

𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔 𝚂𝚙𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚕𝚢. 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚛𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚖 𝚊𝚗𝚍, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚕 𝚜𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚖 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝙸 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚗 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚞𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚜𝚘 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚊𝚗𝚍, 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎,𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚒𝚏 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚖𝚢 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚞𝚊𝚐𝚎. 𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚜𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢 𝚙𝚘𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚢 𝚜𝚘 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔. 𝙰𝚕𝚜𝚘 𝚋𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚖𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎.

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MaryMary8249 t1_jeh2ykp wrote

  1. That I'm such an immigrant and that my name is weird and that I wasn't born in the US (false)

  2. Evidently we're also seen as brats in India. My mom warns me against looking like an American Brat.

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mtthellspawn t1_jeh548i wrote

That my very boring ass English name has to be mispronounced on purpose because I'm part black.

That I must speak either Spanish or Arabic due having tan skin. I'm absolutely horrible at both languages.

And of course all the unsolicited advice for my hair. My response is always " My hair doesn't work like that ".

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ilovetrains2 t1_jegtfaj wrote

That I smell like curry, sometimes though, you are what you eat.

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Quetip909 t1_jegv94q wrote

That I'm privileged...

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dabudtenda t1_jegx3jx wrote

That I have a loving and functional family. That i was stalking an "innocent" black family that I had no clue existed until they yelled at me then proceeded to walk out the back door with a cart full of stuff that I have some sort of torch i jealously guard that needs to be passed to the next guy and it has to be someone of a darker complexion than me and I must make room for them because I've already had it easy enough

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Beepbeepboobop1 t1_jeh5ku3 wrote

That I’m stupid/uneducated. That I love basketball. That I was going to become a gang member lol (said to me in elementary).

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LiehTzu t1_jegtbme wrote

I can't gauge the spiciness of food accurately because I am "Mexican". I am not Mexican, but that's how it was explained to me.

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jamkoch t1_jegvao2 wrote

That I'm Jewish because of my last name. Several Lutheran ministers turned in their graves with that comment.

Edit: Downvotes? for mentioning Jewish? Can we say, white supremacist?

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thenakedapeforeveer t1_jegzywt wrote

On the flip side, dad's family is Jewish, but they share their surname with the skipper of the Bismarck and Martin Luther's mother. A lot of those German names are ambiguous. Even the Goldberg that Bach wrote the variations for was a gentile.

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Throwaawwusuidkdlpd t1_jegyczc wrote

Cue the oppressed white people who have been called mayo monkeys and told they can’t dance😢😢

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MaximumShart t1_jegt1we wrote

That my family owned slaves

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Kangdaconqurer t1_jegthef wrote

I mean we do, but it’s still rude to assume that

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MaximumShart t1_jeh3vs3 wrote

I’m not an American and my family heritage is Scandinavian, it’s possible in the 1100s we owned white slaves but either way, it’s a racist assumption

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LiehTzu t1_jegth36 wrote

Did they, though? No joke, my mom's side of the family had slaves and a plantation at one point.

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MaximumShart t1_jeh3lxm wrote

They did not, I’m not an American and my family heritage is Swedish, it’s possible they owned white slaves back in like the 1100s but not that we know of

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