Comments on: Where Are You From? http://www.sweetisu.com/2005/03/20/where-are-you-from/ Entrepreneur. Wife. Mother. Immigrant. Cancer Survivor. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:37:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: sweetisu http://www.sweetisu.com/2005/03/20/where-are-you-from/#comment-230 sweetisu Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:55:00 +0000 http://www.sweetisu.com/2005/03/20/where-are-you-from/#comment-230 Amy - it's definitely OK for me, when the question is not motivated by looks alone. Sometimes you just have to ask the person where they're from. However in my experiences, I feel as though it all stems from the fact that I'm not white or black. Also, I don't appreciate complete strangers asking me this as the ice breaker. I'm sorry if I came off differently in the post. Amy - it’s definitely OK for me, when the question is not motivated by looks alone. Sometimes you just have to ask the person where they’re from. However in my experiences, I feel as though it all stems from the fact that I’m not white or black. Also, I don’t appreciate complete strangers asking me this as the ice breaker.

I’m sorry if I came off differently in the post.

]]> By: amyesq http://www.sweetisu.com/2005/03/20/where-are-you-from/#comment-229 amyesq Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:21:00 +0000 http://www.sweetisu.com/2005/03/20/where-are-you-from/#comment-229 Guilty as charged. I ask this question quite a bit, although I certainly never mean anything bad by it. I think part of the reason I ask is that I grew up approximately eleven miles from where I happen to be sitting at this very moment and so I have a natural curiousity about folks who come from different places. I love to learn about different people and what attracts them to a certain place. I do have to say, however, that I do live in a very diverse place - a place to which many people move and of which not many people are natives. So my questions are never motivated by someone looking different than everyone else. There is no such thing here. Does that make it OK? Guilty as charged. I ask this question quite a bit, although I certainly never mean anything bad by it. I think part of the reason I ask is that I grew up approximately eleven miles from where I happen to be sitting at this very moment and so I have a natural curiousity about folks who come from different places. I love to learn about different people and what attracts them to a certain place. I do have to say, however, that I do live in a very diverse place - a place to which many people move and of which not many people are natives. So my questions are never motivated by someone looking different than everyone else. There is no such thing here. Does that make it OK?

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