No. Where are you REALLY from?

Barry M
Toronto, Canada

This six word combination together with two other six word combos (Are you from Jamaica or Africa? — No. Where were you actually born?) formed a common conversation I had throughout the 1990s. In Canada the attitude for a long time was if you are Black, and born before the late 80s, you had to have been imported to Canada and if you did not give the answer people wanted to hear they acted as if you were lying to them about where you are from.