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Not a pick up line at all, lol
People ask me that all the time.....& they're always surprised by what I tell them, lol
A client of mine as she was leaving...was eyeing up my body...
She loved our session, but she stopped & asked what country I'm from lol
(She's from Peru)
I laughed & said this one!
She said that American women don't usually have bodies like mine...
What an unusual comment, but she loved my curves she said.
But anyways I also ask people what nationality they are or where they're from....
It's fascinating
I dunno. I think the spirit of the question is important. I don't see how it could be a pickup line, though. If you ask someone that with no prior conversation, it's just rude. Frankly, it wouldn't occur to me unless we got to talking about our childhoods or something.
I'm from Jersey, so it's a pretty diverse mix of people. Someone who has another skin color or "exotic" features isn't going to cause much excitement. I had a college friend of partly Native American and Mexican descent - she grew up in Milwaukee, and she was amazed when she visited me in NJ how she could hang out with a bunch of white strangers and they wouldn't ask her where she was from. In Wisconsin, she was usually assumed to be a foreigner. I'm not saying I grew up in some sort of color-blind racism-free utopia, but there was some sense of respecting boundaries and an understanding that it wasn't odd if everyone didn't look alike.
Not. I don't guess, as I hear it tons, have people stare at me, due to my unusual look. When I was younger, most people assume I am white. Wrong. I'm black, but have albinism. So, skin has no color, hair i blonde, and eyes are green.
It's mainly annoying. lol Apparently nobody has ever heard of it, then you have to explain it, etc. Or, once again, maybe that's just where I live where everyone is ignorant.
Nobody heard of it??! As you say, I think the people you live near are ignorant.
New England? If I recall correctly from my youth there are plenty of people of Irish and Italian descent. Do you live in cocoon?
Damn! *so close* for an entire relationship thread to go before an insult. Oh well. ...
Yes, New England has many Irish and Italian. AND Portuguese, Cape Verdian and Polish, etc....
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Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth
OP, I"m not quite understanding your situation. Are you saying you're the typical New Englander except for the brown eyes? That seems like a very odd reason to ask someone's ethnicity. A subtle difference like that wouldn't be noticeable or mean anything to most people. There's really no other difference? Do you speak with a New England accent? I can't imagine what the cause of that kind of attention would be. And no, it's not a pick-up line.
That's the thing. I look pretty "white", lost my accent years ago, and most guesses are pretty "bland." (Most often I hear, French, Irish, or Italian. Sometimes if I'm tanned with is a VERY rare event because I'm pasty white at baseline, someone will guess something Hispanic or Asian. )
I guess I don't quite understand what "education conversation" comes from asking an American from New England about their Northern or Southern European ancestry. I accept that it is just common conversation in New England in some circles of people, but hardly anyone ever asked me in California when I lived there for over 5 years. This is the first time it's come up in a while but it came up more than once a day.
Specifically, I'm a mix of Indian Aryan & Indian Dravidian leaning slightly more towards the Aryan side.
Most Indians are some mix of Aryan + Dravidian, but you'll almost never hear any of them mention it. I hope you don't go around introducing yourself that way, in an attempt to ingratiate yourself with white women?
I dunno. I think the spirit of the question is important. I don't see how it could be a pickup line, though. If you ask someone that with no prior conversation, it's just rude. Frankly, it wouldn't occur to me unless we got to talking about our childhoods or something.
I'm from Jersey, so it's a pretty diverse mix of people. Someone who has another skin color or "exotic" features isn't going to cause much excitement. I had a college friend of partly Native American and Mexican descent - she grew up in Milwaukee, and she was amazed when she visited me in NJ how she could hang out with a bunch of white strangers and they wouldn't ask her where she was from. In Wisconsin, she was usually assumed to be a foreigner. I'm not saying I grew up in some sort of color-blind racism-free utopia, but there was some sense of respecting boundaries and an understanding that it wasn't odd if everyone didn't look alike.
This is really weird, given that Milwaukee is 17% Hispanic/Latino (any race), and 40% black, and that Wisconsin overall has a significant Native American population. Not a lily-white situation, where somebody of Native or Hispanic descent is going to stick out like the proverbial sore thumb, by any stretch.
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