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)
rattusrattus 19
*facepalm* When I was six I realised that Native Americans a) existed and b) didn't live in teepees and wigwams anymore. And I'm English. Sorry you had to put up with the idiot descendants of our lowlifes, OP.
tona01 16
PS never said america sucked, i just said what USA looks like for other countries
kryxen 14
I'm sorry for the rest of the stupid Americans.
countrygirl987 0
oh my.... I'm sooo sorry :/
mnlc_fml 0
wait till your told my grand mother was an Indian princess.
pntbllmst2007 0
You should be proud to be living in such a great country and to be an AMERICAN! Why can't you just say that you are an AMERICAN instead of "native american"...
AirForce48 2
Hey don't blame this great country because some of it's people are stupid but I think the fact that this took place in Missouri explains the whole story
allerz 0
HOW does the OP deserve it??? ignorant assholes.
neonblue120 6
Even if she thought that WHY would she say that? You should have turned to her and said you're so stupid it's a wonder you haven't forgotten how to breath.
nativepimp 1
your going to be hopping the fence here in a few years