#So maybe now that verbiage is different I come across as “uneducated” (which is so stupid and problematic) | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

cassandralexxx · 1 month

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Actually no I am so pressed like it is actually absurd the number of times I have had to say “well English is my first language” while up here these past few years. to a point it’s like kind of insulting like people seem to ignore all of my background and greater details about myself and focus in on half of my ethnicity.

#mylife #Kind of a continuation of earlier #Honestly it may be in part bc I look more Hispanic now?#Like my hair is darker than when I was younger and I have curly hair now (ty immunosuppressants 🤩)#Like my sister has always had a bit darker features and she had to tell one of her teachers in hs that English was her first language 🤷‍♀️#I think another reason may be the way I talk? I used to use far more formal vocabulary #So maybe now that verbiage is different I come across as “uneducated” (which is so stupid and problematic)#But honestly I think geography is the biggest thing back home I was white and here I’m “not”#One of my friends was soooooo shocked that my dad was white like he’s “so white” in comparison to like me and my mom and it’s like idk #Not me being pressed about something from like 12 hours ago 😋#But it’s like why is it I have spent almost all my life so normal and I come here and within the last 3 years I’ve had to #Literally point out that English is my first language bc of like stereotypical/insulting assumptions multiple times #Like I hate that it’s my friends that have done it. Like yes old white men at the hospital on 3 occasions have clocked me as not white #Which is whatever but like the whole ‘there’s gotta be something mixed in with you’ from elderly sick pol doesn’t feel nearly as bad as-#-my peers and friends with their directness and implications

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