De Donde eres?
by This is the question i hear the most lately. When i talk to a hispanic person in spanish, they always look at me and ask me "where are from?" So I say "From here." Then they say, "what about your parents??" "They're from here too." Then they look at me again and say, "Oh i thought u were from honduras or panama." Heh so i guess i can pass as latino. Ya tu sabes!
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People always talk to me in spanish (even if I talk to them in english first with an american accent) and always seem surprised when i dont know spanish!
this is my dad. hes from the ironbound part of newark and everyone always talks to him in spanish or portugese and he never has any idea what they're saying. so funny to me.
haha funny. today at work i got all these comments from people "wow, i've never seen a black person workin here before!" lol. i guess i'm the chosen negro
you got a new job? nice!
oh yea i do, in this grocery store down the street from my house. it's perfect because it's so close
good for joo mang. spanish accent because i don't speak spanish
awesome, dude! Keep pioneering! Whatever works.
grats, dude, where you workin at?
Wait, I thought your dad was hispanic...where's his family from? Is your mom the Italian one, I'm all confused LOL
that's awesome. I got this the other day from somebody, first time ever. I was pretty surprised because my spanish isn't too great, but at least I fooled one latino. Its a good witnessing opportunity though when they ask why am I learning spanish. Turns out her sister is a witness in Peru
** ooooh look at me look at me... i can speak spanish.. **
im going against the grain here kids, im NOT learning spanish.... and THAT my friends... is punk rock.
Stick it to The Man!
"where are you from?"
I come from the place where you shut the heck up
i always get "where are you from" it sometimes offends me cause not EVERY mexican you meet is from mexico. my distant relatives are from there and i'm closer to spain on my mom's side. it's weird.
anyway i dont like it when ones assume that me, myself am from mexico.
I get that too!!! Except i could go on for ten minutes with everything that i am so i hate that question.... whats wrong with just being American??
if i ever have a baby i'm totally giving birth in Mexico
i mean how awesome would that be
a mexican baby
"if i ever end up having kids...i wanna have english kids. kids in general are so annoying and always needing something. just constantly screaming my pants are wet. i peed my pants mom help me. but how cool would an english kid be. i mean they'd say"pardon mother but i seem to have wet me britches. could you help the situtation?"
Haha I'd want foreign kids to it's sucha conversation piece.
When other Greek or Italian people find out that I'm half Greek and half Italian, they always ask me which part of the country my family is from and then ask me if I speak the language.
Aren't we a little far off from the Euro-American migration? Can't these people figure out by virtue of the fact that I speak english without an accent that I was born in this country and most likely don't speak a european language? And even if I did speak either language, what would the person's next question be? If we both speak fluent english, would they start speaking another language just because they can? It's annoying.
I don't understand when caring about another person, or when showing an interest in them became wrong or annoying. I think you need to move to the most remote area, and pray no one finds you. Otherwise, I think you'll be stuck living with kind, interested, and caring people for the rest of your life.
you could move to the south pole... and kick random penquins to get out ur frustration of people that you work with.
That was harsh.
Well, I'm sort of guilty of this myself. I LUV people and this is usually what the first part of our coversation consist of especially in my hall. I never really realized some people might be irritated by it 'cause so many are quite eager to share this info.
WAHHHHH DRAMA BOMB AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
i don't like when people find out i'm polish and say "say something in Polish"
i always kind of just want to say "i hate you" in Polish haha
It's like when people assume I'm Irish and Welsh they address me with o Cen contae tu? or Beth sir ach orginally chan?
i'd never do that to you! i always call you "hey" or "you" and "hey, you" and sometimes, "riboflavin"
Maybe I'm wrong, but that could be due to you not actually knowing any Gaelige or Cymraeg. Actually, I was making a joke.
Bhi machree
Ohin trasna na farraige
Nnice one.
Somebody cried the death of culture
Somebody spit in a little boy's face
Somebody said you robbed my homeland
Somebody got the wrong impression
So we came across the water
From the shores of the isle of green
Speaking seperate tongues
In the death of culture
Somebody said you stole my language
Some people will say anything
Somebody said you robbed my heritage
Some people will believe anything
Somebody said you always spoke English
Somebody got the wrong impression
So we came across the water
From the shores of the isle of green
Speaking separate tongues
In the death of culture
It was the death of culture
It was the death of culture
Bhi machree
Ohin trasna na farraige
Bhi machree
Ohin trasna na farraige
i like when people say to me "where are you from?" and i say "mahwah" because i wish i lived there sometimes.
when they ask where my family is from, i try to give a COMPLETELY different answer from Muffy, this way if they find out we are related, they are going to be confused.
Muffy says "i am hungarian and romainian and cape verdean and blah blah blah"
I say "I am half jewish and half portueguese" - neither of these things is true
I used to say "I am Puerto Rican" until i went there, now i don't want to be from there very much anymore
thats not true..... we are 50 % Jewish!
It would explain his love for bagels at least.
hey, puerto ricans are cool. oddly enough i totally remember u always telling me that this is ur history.
hahaha, next time don't say anything. you just sound silly. say you're a mutt like everyone else is. s'easier.
Well, unless one is strait from the Garden of Eden, one can't say with conviction that one is 100 % anything, can one?
i think people in the future will laugh at us tryin to figure out where we're fri love to see a person that's mixed with so many thing. it just looks good
or you could just say you're married so it doesn't matter...
s'true. unless your italian.
yeah but thats like the only thing we arent.....
so you're like...a mini UN?
thats right! and dont you forget it