#me: *wears flamengo shirt* someone: are you from sao paulo me: no me internally: be glad i'm not brazilian bc if i were i would have killed | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

lokigodofaces · 2 days ago

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well, managed to go all day wearing a brazilian soccer shirt without anyone asking me if i'm from brazil/asking if i'm from a specific brazilian city that doesn't have the team of the shirt i wore. that's a first.

#this will forever be a mystery for me #it happens with brazil a ton now but people have always assumed i'm not white/parents are immigrants #people have thought i'm hispanic brazilian jewish native american & wildest of all pakistani #& always for weird reasons #me: *learns spanish in high school and enjoys it* everyone: oh are you latina? are your parents/grandparents latina?#answer: no i decided to learn spanish bc i thought it could be useful. no i'm not fluent bc i only learned in hs (but portuguese does help #me understand some)#me: *does an english project on antisemitism* everyone (INCLUDING MY TEACHER): oh are you jewish? religiously or ethnically?#answer: nope #me: *exists* this one guy i met in brazil: you must be pakistani i used to work with one and you look super similar #answer: also no me: *confused as heck seriously the others i can maybe see this one makes no sense*#me: *exists* someone: you look like you have native american ancestry #answer: no i do not #me: *has lived in brazil speaks portuguese etc* others: *assume i was born there*#answer: no i lived there for a while though #me: *eats at brazilian restaurant knows basic knowledge about brazil & wears a soccer shirt* everyone: OMG YOU MUST BE BRAZILIAN #like i get that i can be confused as brazilian for knowing portuguese and having lived there that one does make sense #what gets me is that people seeing me eating rice and beans or wearing a brazil team shirt are more confident that i'm brazilian than the #people that literally hear me speaking in a foreign language sometimes which is wild #me: *wears flamengo shirt* someone: are you from sao paulo me: no me internally: be glad i'm not brazilian bc if i were i would have killed #you for assuming that i'm from sao paulo while wearing a flamengos shirt that team is from rio de janeiro!#liv won't shut up #idk all of my ancestry pre-going to the us is from western or northern europe #& like my skin is darker than average for a white person but not dark enough to think i'm from a different race #i look like someone that can go outside without burning up. that's literally it #people are weird

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