{"id":195,"date":"2007-12-17T01:47:02","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T01:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntucat.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/17\/satisfy-your-curiosity-the-right-way\/"},"modified":"2010-02-06T22:49:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T02:49:17","slug":"satisfy-your-curiosity-the-right-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/satisfy-your-curiosity-the-right-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Satisfy your curiosity the right way"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a previous entry<\/a>, I ranted about people asking where I’m “really” from. <\/p>\n

Well, a few days ago, I had the good fortune to come across a white person who asked me (without my prompting her) how one is supposed to ask the question. I was actually taken off guard and didn’t have a ready response. I often get so annoyed at people asking “Where are you really<\/i> from?” that I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about what they should<\/i> be asking. <\/p>\n

I thought about it for a while and came up with “What’s your background?” or “What’s your ethnicity?” I guess probably putting the two together might make sense: “What is your ethnic background?” So there you have it. If you want to know what someone’s ethnic background is—surprise, surprise—ask her what her ethnic background<\/i> is. Don’t ask where she’s “really” from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a previous entry, I ranted about people asking where I’m “really” from. Well, a few days ago, I had the good fortune to come across a white person who asked me (without my prompting her) how one is supposed to ask the question. I was actually taken off guard and didn’t have a ready… Continue reading Satisfy your curiosity the right way<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-class-gender-sexuality","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}