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The XMen biracial chick got me thinking about this.
Do you ever get confused for another race or nationality. Or some wierd confusion thing like my case below:
Do you ever get confused for the wrong gender
. Just playing. But feel free to share if you do.
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Im full blood and clearly black so I dont think anyone could mistake me for anything but black. But I had situations where, here in Zimbabwe, other Zimbabweans would assume I wasnt Zimbabwean and talk about me in Shona.
Stuff like - these foreigners are everywhere now... I'd be sitting in a hair salon for example and people would start talking about me and foreigners in general, in shona which they thought I couldnt understand. The worst would be that there are too many foreigners and that nigerian males esp were criminals and how most foreign women dont usually walk around alone but never anything ugly about me so I generally never bothered to get into it with people or correct them.
I did notice they never bytched about non-black foreigners.
Males would ask each other which race they thought I was and one would ask. The milder ones never said anything too graphic or rude. I was always conflicted here, coz if i answered in shona then the conversation wouldnt end, if i answered in english then it wouldnt end. Id juat smile.and look blank till i was able to get away from them lol.
I have a very common shona name and still get asked where are you from. In high school id have to explain even to some teachers that im zimbabwean and dont have a foreign parent.
Im not sure what they see to make them think I looked "not zimbabwean". If i say im zimbabwean im asked if im ndebele then.and i still.dont inderstand it.
My ex hubby said after he was satisfied that im in fact zimbabwean said it was because I seem unaproachable and unreachable and I somehow seem different that he and his friends thought I wasnt zimbabwean. And because I spoke to other foreigners, like Nigerians, then they assumed i was seeking out other foreigners. (there was a time that SOME zimbaweans were anti Nigerian and seem to think they are money hungry criminals and I never got this vibe from nigerians I spoke to. When the US dollar began to be officially used here there were lot of foreigners of all races who quickly set up shop in Zimbabwe, from beauty and hair supply stores to churches)
Also noone ever could define what country they thought I was from they never thought I wasnt black, just that I was not Zimbabwean.
Do you ever get confused for another race or nationality. Or some wierd confusion thing like my case below:
Do you ever get confused for the wrong gender
. Just playing. But feel free to share if you do.***********
Im full blood and clearly black so I dont think anyone could mistake me for anything but black. But I had situations where, here in Zimbabwe, other Zimbabweans would assume I wasnt Zimbabwean and talk about me in Shona.
Stuff like - these foreigners are everywhere now... I'd be sitting in a hair salon for example and people would start talking about me and foreigners in general, in shona which they thought I couldnt understand. The worst would be that there are too many foreigners and that nigerian males esp were criminals and how most foreign women dont usually walk around alone but never anything ugly about me so I generally never bothered to get into it with people or correct them.
I did notice they never bytched about non-black foreigners.
Males would ask each other which race they thought I was and one would ask. The milder ones never said anything too graphic or rude. I was always conflicted here, coz if i answered in shona then the conversation wouldnt end, if i answered in english then it wouldnt end. Id juat smile.and look blank till i was able to get away from them lol.
I have a very common shona name and still get asked where are you from. In high school id have to explain even to some teachers that im zimbabwean and dont have a foreign parent.
Im not sure what they see to make them think I looked "not zimbabwean". If i say im zimbabwean im asked if im ndebele then.and i still.dont inderstand it.
My ex hubby said after he was satisfied that im in fact zimbabwean said it was because I seem unaproachable and unreachable and I somehow seem different that he and his friends thought I wasnt zimbabwean. And because I spoke to other foreigners, like Nigerians, then they assumed i was seeking out other foreigners. (there was a time that SOME zimbaweans were anti Nigerian and seem to think they are money hungry criminals and I never got this vibe from nigerians I spoke to. When the US dollar began to be officially used here there were lot of foreigners of all races who quickly set up shop in Zimbabwe, from beauty and hair supply stores to churches)
Also noone ever could define what country they thought I was from they never thought I wasnt black, just that I was not Zimbabwean.
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look when she asked me. I said no, then she asked me where my family is from, and I said here. Then she left me alone.
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