What questions can start a conversation
Dale, Medford, OR I am reading your Conversations book realizing many questions come off as offensive and would like to know what questions could start...
Acceptable, only after identified as Hawaiian
Nedra De Lima, White Plains, MD. Experienced “minority status” when we moved stateside from Hawaii in the 70s. I was most often identified as Hispanic/Mexican....
My skin is not my culture.
Rachel Brinson, Centennial, CO. People always want to put me in a box and assume what I find offensive, what I find familiar, and how...
Scared to say the wrong thing
Grace Fry, Whitesville, NY p>As a white person I grew up not having to worry about getting pulled over or judged or treated differently just...
Where do you really come from?
Blanche Tsetong, Australia. I get this question often. Mostly at work. It never fails to infuriate me, particularly because the question is only ever directed...
Speaking spanish is my choice
Ana Martinez, Baytown, TX I’ve been told that my language is offensive to people when people need Spanish speakers when getting hired but yet its...
Race doesn’t define how you act
Ethan Flechner, Milwaukee, WI I’m a white man and I act very differently then most white people I see in stories and on the news....
RESPECT! Skin colour labelling IS offensive
Liam, United Kingdom MOVING AWAY FROM THE WHITE SUPREMACIST’S RULEBOOK Referring to people by skin colour is based on white “supremacy” – which is an...
Not Mexican, stop calling me that
Carolina, Powder Springs, GA. As a Hispanic person, being called Mexican can be seen as an insult, but what is worst; the fact that I...
White Guilt is offensive and condescending.
Anonymous Hong Kong, China I’ve always thought white guilt was condescending and offensive towards people of extra-European origins. Do we really need to see more...
Future of NFL-Kneeling During Anthem
Travis Crawford, Visalia, CA. NFL players (and others) are kneeling during the National Anthem to protest police brutality and other injustices toward African Americans (that...
“What is your ethnicity?” I’m human.
Sabrina Perrin, Delaware, OH. As I started growing up, I started getting more and more questions about what ethnicity I was. Although these questions weren’t...
You are smart to be Mexican
Teresa Gonzalez, Weslaco, TX. Many people say expressions like this one without taking into consideration its being offensive. They don’t think or recall that being...
I’m here to change your stereotypes
Denali Lukacinsky, Honolulu, HI. People look at me and assume all kinds of offensive things about what black people are supposed to be like, they...
I actually live in a house
Ribora, Riverside, CA. As an International student, it can be offensive to think just because a person is from Africa, they come from a jungle...
White people, it’s not about you.
Jaqui, Bremerton, WA. So often, when having a conversation about race white a white person they are unable to step outside themselves. They are either...
