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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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By Anonymous - 03/09/2021 02:01

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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

Epickitty58 29

Monday 7 July 2014 14:41

Somehow this is the greatest country in the world.

brand125 17

Monday 7 July 2014 22:14

depending on who you ask

gameover18 17

Monday 7 July 2014 15:22

.... I can't think of comment to tell the counselor. I just can't.

B90 9

Monday 7 July 2014 16:11

I can't help but give the counselor the benefit of doubt. Perhaps she meant to ask if you speak Chinese but the word English came out instead.

enu_vastanii__ 9

Monday 7 July 2014 16:22

Stereotypes.. It can be annoying a lot of the times eh

glimmer980 20

Monday 7 July 2014 17:31

I'm Chinese also, but I'm adopted. Everyone assumes that I speak Chinese and can read it. In reality whenever someone starts a conversation in Chinese I just look around awkwardly.

raphanne_fml 33

Monday 7 July 2014 17:50

Haha, one of my best friends was adopted too. He was born in Korea but lived all his life in France, so he doesn't speak Korean. We went to Seoul together and I can speak a little bit of Korean. Everybody was shocked when the Korean looking guy couldn't speak Korean, but the white girl could.

Angeuh_fml 21

Monday 7 July 2014 17:53

And so ? Do you speak english or not ?

lina21 12

Monday 7 July 2014 18:34

I'd say file a formal complaint. You don't need to put up with racist crap from a school official

RedPillSucks 31

Monday 7 July 2014 18:37

Your obvious response should have been "Yes, do you?"

Foxfire15 15

Monday 7 July 2014 18:42

People can be stupid, and it sucks. I had a coworker once though, that didn't speak chinese, but he picked up the accent from his parents and it made him hard to understand at times.