Today, while working at Kohl's this woman came up to me and asked if I was Native American, I said yes, she then says "Oh! I thought you guys went extinct." This is the country I live in. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, a man I don't know came up to me and started screaming about how "all you damn Mexicans were stealing American's jobs" and he stormed off. I'm Native American, and I'm pretty sure we've been here longer. FML
Today, I was at work when a customer came up to me and asked where and what I used to get my tan. I'm Indian. FML
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
Today, I went to a grocery store after work, exhausted. I nodded politely at a woman who smiled at me repeatedly. I realized at checkout she thought I was someone she knew. I nodded through a full conversation without knowing who I was pretending to be. FML
Today, I was talking to my girlfriend about extinct peoples, and I said how close the Jewish people came to becoming one. She condescendingly told me they don't exist anymore. When I asked what she was talking about, I realized she was confusing them with the Vikings. What the hell? FML
Today, I got written up by HR after my new coworker told them I had an ignorant, offensive caricature of Native American people decorating my desk. It was a framed photograph of an actual Native American tribe that belonged to my history buff grandfather. FML
Today, my sister called my Native American friend a bigot for saying he had no problem with the name "Cleveland Indians". FML
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
Today, while teaching my history class, a girl asked me where North America was. She lives in North America. FML
Today, I was at a mall. A woman stopped by me, said slowly and loudly, in Spanish "baño?" Knowing a bit of Spanish, I nodded and pointed the restrooms out for her. She then mutters about "dang Mexicans and their inability to speak English". I'm not even Latina. I'm Irish-American. FML
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ZoZo17_fml 0
omg... can you spell idiot.??
YayorNay 8
Idiat...nope I can't.
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Comments (384)
craw1992 0
I feel you. I'm native American too and I get that shit all the time
justbigbs 6
Ah yes, world population 99.99 % ignorants and .01% common sense proven every second.
CrazyL1fe 3
Stupid Americans these days...
broomhildo 19
Not everyone is as stupid as her, thanks.
fuzz97 23
Stupid Americunts...
broomhildo 19
No, it's pretty stupid. To assume Native Americans are extinct?
stupdude3 8
I think people believe that because 1) In history, the Native Americans were murdered and driven out of their homes by Americans, and 2) because its pretty hard to find people who are fully native American. Its ignorance on the woman's part, not stupidity, that made her say that.
Mortalspirit 4
Good old America.
dkcutie92 0
Oh my god. What an ignorant bitch.
sourlunch 3
I'm glad some people are offended! Euro-American history classes forgot to mention genocide survivors from lice-soaked blankets, scalping, and rapes that happened to the locals! (Though they did mention feasting with them! HA Thanksgiving is a joke!)
liy223 6
dear lord...
tona01 16
i already told you, in north mexico, there is 4 choices you can take: join the drugdealers, live in poverty, die or jump the fence. its hard up there, real hard its a shame our country is going through something like that, because some of our last goverment workers, like some governors thought it was a good way to make money. so now that the country is trying to fix that, they get bombed by the news. yeah its a tough fight, and the few that have the brains to flee to USA get discriminated or shot at by SOME (not all) americans. so yeah most don't like USA but they see it as a way to leave poverty or certain death. That answers your question