People of the northeast past a certain age will remember that there were ethnic blocks throughout the northeast and asking people where they were from or what was their ethnicity is (asked as What are you?) was commonplace.
so lets live in the past...
this guy has opened the door...to some necessary discussion
a Statesmen he will never be
Ah yes...we all did that! And the answers ranged from which county in Ireland, Scotland, England, France, northern or southern Italy...where in Portugal. .or Poland or Scandinavia. It was fun, it was interesting and harmless. We were diverse, but no one told us we HAD to be. In the end, we were just happy to be American.
The best part was how well we ate when someone’s grandmother from the old country started cooking.
‘People of the northeast past a certain age will remember that there were ethnic blocks throughout the northeast and asking people where they were from or what was their ethnicity is (asked as What are you?) was commonplace.’
This reminds me of the museum curator in Ghostbusters II who spoke with a weird, heavy accent, looked foreign, etc. One of the Ghostbusters, probably Vinckman, eventually asked the guy where he was from.
The curator stared at Vinckman nonplussed, and said, “Upper Vest Side.”