Relatable, Students and Parents: Crackers

Crackers

By buryuntime - 03/03/2009 05:37 - United States

Today, my mother was re-enrolling me in school so she was required to fill out some paperwork. Later, she asked me, "What does caucasian mean?" I replied, "Why?" Apparently she didn't recognize the word, so she checked "Other" and wrote in "White". FML

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By Anonymous - 19/02/2022 00:01

Today, I had to slowly and very seriously explain to my mother why there is no 'White History Month'. I can't believe we are actually related. FML

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By Anonymous - 15/02/2013 04:30 - United States

Today, I had to explain to my white girlfriend that dating me doesn't give her the right to call my mother the N-word. FML

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By notmuchfun - 20/07/2010 21:17 - United States

Today, my mother continued her lifelong habit of talking to anyone who isn't white in extremely slow, exaggerated "caveman" English. She insists that she isn't being racist, but rather is helping. FML

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By look how totally not racist I am! - 11/07/2014 03:32 - United States - Salida

Today, I was stuck on a campus tour with my subtly racist mother who, in an attempt to seem open-minded, deemed it appropriate to refer to our black tour guide as "Sistah". FML

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By kdubz23 - 17/02/2014 22:41 - United States - Pittsburgh

Today, the parent of a student called to ask me about a homework assignment. At the end of the call, she told me that I seem to be losing my "Asian accent" from when she first talked to me in the summer. I was born in the US, grew up in NJ and speak perfect English. FML

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By lordoftheweird - 29/07/2021 10:59

Today, because no one else was willing to, I had to explain to my uncle that he's white, that I'm not his grandfather, and that he's mentally challenged. FML

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Some people don't belong in education

By Panagiotis - 01/10/2022 18:01 - United States

Today, we had a substitute teacher. She was taking attendance and had trouble pronouncing my last name. When I corrected her, I heard her mutter under her breath about, “Goddamn Mexican immigrants…” I’m from Greek ancestry, born in the USA. FML

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By Anonymous - 27/03/2021 02:01

Today, I overheard my caucasian mother on the phone lamenting to a friend that her future grandchildren won’t “look American”. Any future grandchildren of hers would be half Lakota native. FML

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By Anonymous - 07/07/2014 01:27 - United States - Gournay-sur-marne

Today, I went to see the school counselor to schedule my classes for school. She asked me if I knew how to speak English. My parents are Chinese and I don't even know how to speak Chinese. I've lived in America my whole life. Plus, I even spoke to her in English to ask about classes. FML

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Knowledge

By Anonymous - 03/09/2021 02:01

Today, my mom hit me in the face after an argument she didn't win. According to her, Mexican and American are languages, and not dialects or nationalities. She even argued with my teachers, and threatened to remove me "from a school full of uneducated people" after they told her I was correct. FML

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macfluffers 0

Tuesday 3 March 2009 16:03

That's so ridiculous! XD It's funny how some people don't know common ideas.

bitchtits 0

Tuesday 3 March 2009 16:26

yea F your mom's life, glad you're going to school...she clearly didn't

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musicalmandi16 0

Tuesday 3 March 2009 16:31

i agree with #8. good for you. f her life.

Gruesomekthxbai 0

Tuesday 3 March 2009 16:33

LOLFAIL

DaNNo71886 0

Tuesday 3 March 2009 16:36

funny... but this is NOT an fmylife. more fitting of a 'your momma's so stupid' joke.

Vonnick 0

Tuesday 3 March 2009 16:40

Are you kidding me? :dazed:

buttercup707 0

Tuesday 3 March 2009 16:56

when I was about 7 years old my sister's then boyfriend put Caucasian as ethnicity on myspace. He was a funny guy, so I laughed and told my sister, hey look he put caucasian as the race. She later informed me caucasian meant white. I felt so dumb.

nat66623 0

Tuesday 3 March 2009 17:01

This is not an FML..

Vonnick 0

Tuesday 3 March 2009 17:13

Some schools have racial issues and they need to know before hand what the ethnicity is. That's what the matter is.

Lick_yer_face 0

Tuesday 3 March 2009 17:39

Didn't your mum wonder why she had to pick "other" for white, in a country with a white majority (I assume)? :-S Still, I only realised what Caucasian meant a couple of years ago... although we don't use that term in England.