Awkward, First Dates and Racism: First and last date

First and last date

By Xyanthe - 18/03/2023 00:00

Today, my date was making remarks about “stupid illegals” and “immigrants are everything wrong with this country” because our waiter barely spoke English and apparently got his order wrong. When I reminded him I’m an immigrant, he said, “But you speak English and you’re legal, so you don’t count.” FML

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By Frany - 10/01/2023 22:00

Today, my now-ex boyfriend treated our waitress like shit. She was a young lady who just came from Venezuela and barely spoke English. He gave her no tip, ranted about “fixing this goddamn border problem” along with xenophobic slurs. Apparently, he’d forgotten I’m an immigrant too, from Colombia. FML

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Have a nice day!

By Angelica - 21/11/2023 00:00

Today, a customer told me to go to the “fucking border back to illegal immigrant land” and that he can’t wait to “put Trump back in office” so he can get rid of “incompetent ass Mexican bitches” like me. What did I do to cause this? Tell him that we were out of a sauce. FML

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You deserved it 105

Mooch

By Laura - 12/12/2022 12:00

Today, my mom made a comment on how “illegal immigrants” should just come legally and do it the right way, so they “wouldn’t be illegal and mooching off American taxpayers.” This is coming from someone who married someone she didn’t even love, my ex-stepdad for a green card and citizenship. 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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You deserved it 131

By ChickenBallsPlease - 28/01/2014 11:16 - United Kingdom - King's Lynn

Today, I was eating at a Chinese restaurant, when I stopped the waitress to tell her that even though I am of Chinese heritage, I can't understand a word of Chinese. After an awkward silence, she told me she was actually speaking English. FML

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You can talk, mate

By Anonymous - 30/07/2019 12:07 - United Kingdom - Bristol

Today, a customer asked me if I was English, because I was struggling to understand what he was saying. I said yes. He then called me a liar, and said I must be "one of them Polish immigrants." Oh, and he also had a thick Scottish accent. FML

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You deserved it 159

America, **** yeah

By BrazilianGal - 12/08/2021 02:01

Today, a lady at the clothing store told me to, “Stop speaking 'Mexicano', this is America!” when I was talking on the phone. I actually speak Portuguese. When I pointed this out, she verbally tortured me and threatened to, “Call the cops” if I didn’t leave her store for, “making her feel threatened.” FML

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You deserved it 148

Love is…

By Valentina - 17/07/2023 22:00

Today, my husband hosted dinner tonight and once again made deflating comments and called me “r*tarded sp*c” in front of his friends. They all laughed, while I had a knot in my throat. I have to stay married to him for another year and a half or else I’ll lose my green card and get deported. FML

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You deserved it 365

By language barriers - 12/02/2009 07:07 - United States

Today, I was at the airport trying to help a man get to the right terminal. When he finished he turned to tell me "Don't worry, your English is pretty good, considering you're not American". English is my only language. FML

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By anonymous - 15/02/2015 22:39 - United States - Valdosta

Today, while working at Subway I joked with a customer asking him if he was going to order in Spanish. The women in front of him began yelling about how I was being racist and told my manager that I needed to be fired. The customer I was joking with was my Spanish teacher. FML

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JackWood 20

Saturday 18 March 2023 0:22

Sounds like a proud boy

RichardPencil 30

Saturday 18 March 2023 4:38

Dump that idiot. Countries with very limited immigration are stagnating. Japan should be doing much better than they are, but they're in a demographic death spiral. Immigrants are the life-blood of the American economy and culture. I'm surprised there's not more of a pro-immigrant movement to counter the anti-immigrant bigots.

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JackWood 20

Saturday 18 March 2023 0:22

Sounds like a proud boy

Brightside86 30

Saturday 18 March 2023 1:28

If he feels that strongly about probably a good move being that honest so quickly.

RichardPencil 30

Saturday 18 March 2023 4:38

tiptoppc 19

Saturday 18 March 2023 11:43

I’m white and heavily pro-immigrant. You are very correct and I agree (scary, ain’t it?) that immigrants are the lifeblood and essential part of the USA. Then again, unless you are Native American, you are descendants of immigrants and it’s sad and hilarious to see white idiocy spout that crap without realizing that they benefited from their own family being an immigrant at one point. Not sure which movie speaks the most about us. Idiocracy, 1984 or Farenheit 451. Especially with crap DeSantis is pulling. Definitely in a race to the bottom, society wise…

Radulf 8

Saturday 18 March 2023 17:46

I know, I will most probably get a lot of down votes but there is a big difference between legal and illegal immigration. While legal immigration is generally beneficial, illegal immigration, especially in large numbers, tends not to be beneficial as you start importing problems.