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By crazygirl12 - 29/07/2011 15:18 - United States

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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Asshats are everywhere

By hardtotell - 22/01/2010 00:45 - United States

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

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By shrutisoma - 12/05/2016 04:54 - Australia - Strathfield

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

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Ironic

By Anonymous - 27/03/2021 02:01

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

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By tempted to become single - 21/10/2012 16:00 - United States - Atwater

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

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Insensitive

By okaythen - 02/03/2016 23:50 - United States - Arcata

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

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By ok then - 31/10/2016 15:55

Today, my sister called my Native American friend a bigot for saying he had no problem with the name "Cleveland Indians". FML

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America, **** yeah

By BrazilianGal - 12/08/2021 02:01

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

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By isabellam0426 - 02/11/2016 02:55

Today, while teaching my history class, a girl asked me where North America was. She lives in North America. FML

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By Anon - 26/05/2009 17:45 - United Kingdom

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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Office embarrassment

By mog - 07/11/2019 08:00 - United States

Today, the girl who works at the liquor store came to where I work. She recognized me. FML

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Friday 29 July 2011 19:05

omg... can you spell idiot.??

YayorNay 8

Friday 29 July 2011 19:10

Idiat...nope I can't.

Comments

jaff23 11

Friday 29 July 2011 23:27

aren't native Americans the first ones there anyway? some people are ignorant

tona01 16

Friday 29 July 2011 23:30

well the mexicans that do live in mexico don't like USA that much, why? because of the racism against mexicans like the joke before you and truth be told there is a secret plan to take back all the states USA took from us, we send waves of mexicans to live there, until we are the majority there. That's the only reason why mexicans breed like rabbits

sexy_geek 5

Saturday 30 July 2011 0:10

thats just ****** up

BaconLover5 6

Saturday 30 July 2011 0:12

Woooooow..... sad.

raveypoo 4

Saturday 30 July 2011 0:33

I'm native too. This very thing happens to me just about every day >.>

santarosakid 5

Saturday 30 July 2011 0:40

are you now residing in a zoo?

cbponcho 0

Saturday 30 July 2011 0:43

Extinct? Should've said..."yea we still live in teepee's & hunt buffalos"

pntbllmst2007 0

Saturday 30 July 2011 0:44

You should be proud to live in such a great country as America and to be able to be called an AMERICAN! Why do you have to be called a "native american"? You should be proud of Old Glory and be thankful for all the men and women who gave thei

anythingmustbe 18

Saturday 30 July 2011 1:15

Yeah a country that killed almost all the red Indians a country who proudly enslaved black people for century taking a country that isnt yours causing countless foregin wars what a great country

CyonideCyns 0

Saturday 30 July 2011 4:39

yeah Americas a great country, where everything that is unfamiliar to us we kill and anything new we perform tests on until they die, who wouldn't wanna live here?!