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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CallMeHush 1
She has never been to a casino before.
Mrtree17 0
that lady is stupid were not extinct we just live in are own areas a way from dumb white ppl
AmethystRain 20
*Our. Please change your name to MrIrony. Thanks. Signed, a "dumb white person".
redmnky21 8
of course your not extinct... someone has to run all the casinos
Glambert_lover 5
WTF is wrong with you?
guitargoddess89 3
lol! I get that a lot too whenever I go outta state or whenever there happens to be a tourist around me. in Oklahoma you see native Americans everywhere but when I'm in another state or whatever it's always "do u live in a teepee?" "ohhh I thought Indians didn't exist anymore" and my favorite "can I touch your hair?" lol
SteelCladAngel 0
yuk!! i might wanna run my hands through a guys hair if it's long and thick and healthy looking....but at least I'd ask haha.
guitargoddess89 3
well 163 I'll be honest native guys with nice hair are at the top of my list too lol. but I don't about grabbing their hair lol.
misabel90 6
wow. u should have told her no we havent but apparently your brain has :)
5t3ff1k4h 47
Every American I talk to, it seems like, believes I live in an igloo. I've given up saying we don't; now I just go along with it and tell them I do.
meirasanya 10
I'm of Native American descent but living in the UK, and believe me, it's not much better here. I often get asked about rain dances and one guy even asked me if that made me a "native briton" instead
r9e7v 7
it's the US baby, love it or leave.
Tesaatje 12
I think her brains are extinct.
tona01 16
*not ohh and maybe we mexicans want to go to america to take secretly back the states that USA took from us
iguana13579 0
ignorant americans make us all look bad
tona01 16
you're right i generalized about the hillbilly population and i didn't know about justin bieber, i don't really read those type of things, if don't knowing where justin bieber comes from makes me an idiot, then something is wrong with your views of humanity I was just saying that most of the world sees USA like that Ohh and mexicans want to go to america, not because they like it, because they mostly flee poverty or the drug war going on . yes mexico isn't perfect, but we don't make a lot of our shitheads famous like the crew from jersey shore or the examples i already said.