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Is this a racist question??

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Earlier today i was on my way home from work. Now i live in Sydney, Australia and I work in the city. Obviously there are always people walking on the street and lots of people giving flyers and ads and stuff like that. One guy wearing a Red Cross uniform tried to shake my hand, i tried to ignore but i was gonna walk towards his way so I shook his hand coz i dont wanna be rude (he probly wants me to donate blood or something). The way he wants to start a conversation is by asking me "How long have I been here in Australia"?! :mad:

I came from a Filipino background but that doesnt mean I came from overseas, I was born here! I found it rude so I replied "Very long time." I'm not really rude to people even if theyre trying to sell me something, I just found it racist.

Do u think he would ask the same question if he was talking to a Caucasian person? Any opinions on this? Do u guys think the same as me or am I just overreacting??
 
im not looking for a fight here in this forum, i was actually tried to explain what happened in a formal way so people will read this thread seriously.

but thanks to other posts who expressed their opinion. i just wanna know if it was really a rude question.

i usually get asked that question by people that i know, i just found it rude that it came from a stranger who saw an asian guy and automatically thought a traveller came from overseas. didnt he see im wearing a business suit from work!?
 
I suppose it depends upon the density of the Filipino population in Sydney and whether or not you have an accent. Personally, I think he was just trying to make conversation and meant nothing by it.
 
Unless the point of the question was to say that you do not belong in Australia-- and you do not say that at all, I think that you are making way too much of the moment. You have allowed a simple innocent question to be disruptive when you could have easily have said "Oh no, I was born here. You are the first person to have thought otherwise". You have could have turn the moment into a simple learning moment. After all, the person approached you and shook your hand. So it hardly sounds like he had any concerns about your being in Australia. I am sure you have had that thought about someone who belonging to some other ethnic group--a black who resembles a black from the continent of Africa, for instance--without being racist.

I have a friend who was born and raised in France. Yet, his accent is some how off a little. So people often ask him where he was born. And yes, my friend is white.

The person shook your hand and was quite comfortable talking with you. Yet, the mistaken assumption on the guy's part that you were not born in Australia is what bothers you. Well, if someone treated me with warmth and kindness and good will, the person's mistaken assumption about my place of birth would not bother me at all. Would have felt better if the person had taken you to have been born in Australia but resented "your kind"?
 
gsdx said:
I suppose it depends upon the density of the Filipino population in Sydney and whether or not you have an accent. Personally, I think he was just trying to make conversation and meant nothing by it.
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i dont think i have an accent and i was just walking and the only time i talked is when i replied to his question which means whther i have an accent or not, he wouldnt know that til i open my mouth.

however, u can be right and he may not be a racist person but he shouldve asked another conversation starter. if thats the kind of sales tactics hes gonna use, i reckon hes gonna need more training. lol.
 
CnAnPB said:
i understand that (*8*) i meant in your real life?

i've had many many people of my race/color ask me "how long have you been in ______? fill in city or state even country.
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no im not really looking for a fight, i stay away from them as much as possible.

alot people usually ask me that question and i dont usually get offended, i understand, after all, i live in a multicultural country so its very common for people to ask that question.

however, ive made connections with them and theyre not random strangers who will just suddenly ask u how long u been here. maybe ur also right. maybe i overreacted or maybe just tired from work.
 
Well isn't Sydney crowded with backpackers and people from all over the world?
 
Corny said:
Well isn't Sydney crowded with backpackers and people from all over the world?
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well yeah ur right. but would you ask a stranger how long they have been in the area especially even if u dont know their name??
 
If in my experience 90% of Filipino origin are there as travelers, tourists or backpackers .. yeah I would assume that. It might be ignorant, but hardly racist ..
 
I ask people all the time how long they've been in Austin. There's only about 12 of us that live here that were born here.
 
well thanks for your post guys. maybe some of you are right that i may just be overreacting. at least it opened me to the perspective of the guy who asked me.

now i feel bad for being rude to him, he was probly swearing at me when i left him there.
 
well thanks for your post guys. maybe some of you are right that i may just be overreacting. at least it opened me to the perspective of the guy who asked me.

now i feel bad for being rude to him, he was probly swearing at me when i left him there.
 
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