At least once a day I get some customer asking what my nationality is. I'm full blooded Puerto Rican with a little bit of African American thrown in the mix too. So I have what you can say are "exotic features".
People have sworn up & down that I'm Iraqi, Indian (From India), Chinese, Japanese or anything else BUT Puerto Rican! OR I get the clueless idiot who says that because I don't have an accent like Ricky Ricardo then I can't possibly be Puerto Rican. Both of my parents have accents or what's commonly refered to as "broken english". See, I was born In Puerto Rico but raised in the states. My parents were both born & raised in PR.
Then from time to time I'd be helping a spanish speaking customer who speaks little or no english & the customer near them gets pissed off cause I'm speaking in spanish! They tell me I have no right to talk in spanish & I'm like "WTF????"
I'm proud of my heritage but I find it amusing how some people react to the way I look. It gets annoying at times.
Then I get people who ask me if I know a certain spanish person & I say no & they insist that I should know them cause we're both spanish! I try to point out that there's a lot of hispanic people in this area-I don't know all of them!
People have sworn up & down that I'm Iraqi, Indian (From India), Chinese, Japanese or anything else BUT Puerto Rican! OR I get the clueless idiot who says that because I don't have an accent like Ricky Ricardo then I can't possibly be Puerto Rican. Both of my parents have accents or what's commonly refered to as "broken english". See, I was born In Puerto Rico but raised in the states. My parents were both born & raised in PR.
Then from time to time I'd be helping a spanish speaking customer who speaks little or no english & the customer near them gets pissed off cause I'm speaking in spanish! They tell me I have no right to talk in spanish & I'm like "WTF????"
I'm proud of my heritage but I find it amusing how some people react to the way I look. It gets annoying at times.
Then I get people who ask me if I know a certain spanish person & I say no & they insist that I should know them cause we're both spanish! I try to point out that there's a lot of hispanic people in this area-I don't know all of them!
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