Travel Stories from an Asian Man #10
Links to stories #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, and #9.
This story is from a while ago now, but I spent a little bit of time in Berlin with a Vietnamese American friend. This story comes from one night at a reasonably nice restaurant.
Waiter: “Where are the two of you from?”
Us: “America.”
Waiter: “Where are you really from?”
Us: “Well, our parents are from Taiwan and Vietnam respectively.”
Waiter: “Ugh, Vietnam. There are too many Vietnamese people in Berlin, and they all open flower shops.”
Wow, what a really shameful and racist waiter. Was the waiter a white German?
Yep, he was white.
“Yeah, but you don’t look like American. Where are you really from?”
That’s what I get most of the time.
From a fellow American with Asian heritage.