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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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)
CanadianNarwhal 13
Only in America are you extinct and I live in an igloo.
MsJoyfull 4
we club baby seals with beavers too
broomhildo 19
How big is your igloo? Do you have a pet moose or a polar bear? Which form of transportation do you take to work, polar bear or moose? Don't you guys up there just LOVE maple syrup and poutine? This is all said to go along with 29's igloo comment, I'm not really ignorant. But I'm sure some genius would see my post and take me seriously.
Euphoriah 0
Was she blonde?
mchakkiwala 0
like you
Cereal_Is_Good 5
that was a stupid question.
Cereal_Is_Good 5
That was a stupid question.
Blakers2 0
three words. bitch. slap. her
AmethystRain 20
Oh yay, the America haters are starting to congregate. There are morons in every country, not just the US.
tona01 16
yes but in USA they become famous like snooki
stacianichole 2
we not only feed into the stupidity, we thrive on it. look at our popular entertainment...millions upon millions spent on worthless, mindless nonsense entertainment because Americans are content to be cogs in a capitalist machine. that's how we grow ignorant...distract ourselves with celebrities and material possessions...
rezzel 0
tell her to go to walmart she ll see lots of us ( native american) lol
Tapdivaaa 0
hey hey hey, take it easy on the U.S. yes the majority of us are arrogant, but we're not ignorant.... for the most part lol
XxDancerGirlxX 17
Wow. Some people are just ignorant!
SadinSherman 16
Wow people can be very stupid
tona01 16
you're wrong, we see tons of shitheads, like bush, hanna montana, jonas brothers, bieber, charlie sheen, lindsay lohan, paris hilton, most of the hillbilly population, the ones that live in our countries aren't that smart either or a lot of youtube videos like the tron guy or the starwars guy, even chocolate rain. then we think you are morons
lanamarie2011 0
I agree, our lives do suck.
KiddNYC1O 22
Hey now, don't throw your culture under the bus.