Today, I went to see the school counselor to schedule my classes for school. She asked me if I knew how to speak English. My parents are Chinese and I don't even know how to speak Chinese. I've lived in America my whole life. Plus, I even spoke to her in English to ask about classes. FML
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Today, the parent of a student called to ask me about a homework assignment. At the end of the call, she told me that I seem to be losing my "Asian accent" from when she first talked to me in the summer. I was born in the US, grew up in NJ and speak perfect English. FML
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
Today, at a tutoring center, one of the tutors looked at my worksheet and laughed. She then showed all the other tutors my mistakes and they laughed along with her. The best part? They all speak Chinese and they think I can't understand them. I'm Chinese. FML
Today, I had a conference with my dad, my counselor, and my history and English teachers because my dad was "concerned" about my grades in those two classes. We talked for a while and it was going well, then my counselor asked what I wanted to study in college. I said I wanted to be a teacher. He laughed. FML
Today, my parents had a fight as to which one of them is the most cultured. As a result, they've begun writing my chore lists in a variety of languages. If I don't do them, I'm grounded. I only speak English. FML
Today, I found out that my parents don't know the difference between a foreign person and a deaf person. They've been yelling at our exchange student for the past 2 days. FML
Today, my college English teacher told me if I wanted an explanation for my grade I would have to schedule a conference to come to her office. It's an online class. I took an online class because I can't come in. FML
Today, I had a Chinese test. Our teacher decided to wait until yesterday to tell us about it because she "knew" we wouldn't study anyway and she didn't want to stress us out. I'm pretty sure I failed. FML
Today, I found out that I was moving to Germany. I'm going to be put back a year in school because of the system change. I also don't speak a word of German. Why? Because my mother wants to brag about this experience to her friends. FML
Today, my mom hit me in the face after an argument she didn't win. According to her, Mexican and American are languages, and not dialects or nationalities. She even argued with my teachers, and threatened to remove me "from a school full of uneducated people" after they told her I was correct. FML
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RageWolf16 31
I hate the human race sometimes
Alikia96 20
The racism is strong in this one
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Suaria 38
My boyfriend is Chinese and comes from China. We go to a boarding school in the USA. I don't notice any accent when he speaks English. He does have an accent when he speaks Chinese. He speaks English perfectly fine and if he didn't tell you where he came from, you would assume he was second generation Chinese American.
aimzskee 30
People can be so ignorant. Sorry op.
missyfiona89 28
Chinese don't speak Chinese, we speak Mandarin. Just like Indians don't speak Indian, they speak Tamil.
stargirl_95 24
Tamil is just one of the many languages Indians can speak. There are different cultural groups in India and they all speak different languages like Telegu, Hindi, Urdu, Gujurati (I think that's how it's spelt) etc. It's kind of ignorant to assume that all Indians speak Tamil. Also, all Chinese people don't speak Mandarin. What about Cantonese?
missyfiona89 28
All Chinese speak Mandarin. Cantonese is a dialect that only some Chinese speak. For example, I speak hokkien and mandarin, but I don't speak cantonese.
missyfiona89 28
Well, I never said that Indians only speak Tamil. I'm just saying that Indians don't speak Indian, like how Chinese don't speak Chinese.
Mearemoi 14
All Chinese people don't speak Mandarin... Yes, it's the most used dialect, but not every Chinese person speaks it. I, for one, can speak Cantonese and Taishanese , but I can't understand Mandarin.
missyfiona89 28
你不普通, cause you don't understand 普通话!
missyfiona89 28
Regardless of what dialect different Chinese speak, we definitely don't speak Chinese. Chinese is a race, not a language!
PizzaDeliveryGrl 19
No, 111. Chinese is not a race. Please clear that up in your own head--it's not.
sbxqz 7
you should have mumbeled some bs Onlystating The important and see if he noticed it. then call The cops to say he would acting like a racist in School for saying you could not speak propper english ! it would have in Sweden or everyone would just beat The crap outa that teach and see if he would have The balls to do The same thing again:)
yerawizardlizzy 27
What
abraybro 27
I feel your pain, OP. I'm half Chinese and when I pronounce a word wrong, people would always comment saying it's because of my Chinese background. The racism in today's society is appalling.
sabine123_fml 5
Complain to her boss about profiling
strike2867 13
No, yo sólo hablo español.
fantasyworld 39
Report her racist ass.
crashwa 9
Too bad 'Chinese' isn't a language =
Steffi 26
It is. Mandarin, Cantonese, ect. are just dialects of the Chinese language:)
sadistmonkey 19
Under a very loose definition of "dialect". The so-called dialects are about as different from each other as Romance languages are from each other.
simsgirlgem 25
you should have comeback with a sarcastic remark like "No but my you are very good at Chinese"