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By Anonymous - 07/07/2014 01:27 - United States - Gournay-sur-marne

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, 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

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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

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By Anonymous - 03/09/2021 02:01

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

Monday 7 July 2014 8:53

I hate the human race sometimes

Alikia96 20

Monday 7 July 2014 8:56

The racism is strong in this one

Comments

Suaria 38

Monday 7 July 2014 9:51

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

Monday 7 July 2014 10:45

People can be so ignorant. Sorry op.

missyfiona89 28

Monday 7 July 2014 12:09

Chinese don't speak Chinese, we speak Mandarin. Just like Indians don't speak Indian, they speak Tamil.

stargirl_95 24

Monday 7 July 2014 12:41

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

Monday 7 July 2014 15:21

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

Monday 7 July 2014 16:20

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

Tuesday 8 July 2014 2:02

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

Tuesday 8 July 2014 9:53

你不普通, cause you don't understand 普通话!

missyfiona89 28

Tuesday 8 July 2014 9:55

Regardless of what dialect different Chinese speak, we definitely don't speak Chinese. Chinese is a race, not a language!

PizzaDeliveryGrl 19

Wednesday 9 July 2014 15:38

No, 111. Chinese is not a race. Please clear that up in your own head--it's not.

sbxqz 7

Monday 7 July 2014 12:23

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

Wednesday 9 July 2014 8:30

What

abraybro 27

Monday 7 July 2014 12:31

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.