Why I Hate Answering “Where Are You From?”
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I’ve realized how much as a “Third #culture Adult” I now detest answering this question. I wrote a whole paper on this topic when working on my master’s degree and I can honestly say that I still not perfect my answer.It’s confusing for everyone. Including me.I’m British, American, Pakistani, Indian, Asian, South Asian, Austinite, Californian, and hopefully, one day a New Yorker. Yeah, there you go. But that tells you very little about me…what were the assumptions running through your head?Imagine the juggling I have had to do…man…I feel the headache coming on…When I was younger, my parents felt a sense of shame admitting where they were from based on pressures from the British society we were trying to assimilate to. My father faced discrimination based on his last name…people assumed our (...)