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The more I travel, the more I realize I may have chosen the wrong profession. I should have been a spy given that people from all over the world approach me in different languages in assumption that I am from a certain region. \u00a0I call myself “ethnically ambiguous”. \u00a0When I was deployed in Iraq, our local partners would just start speaking to me in Arabic although my uniform displayed my very Latin last name. \u00a0When I was in Southern Thailand, people spoke to me in Thai like I was their neighbor. \u00a0When I was working in Senegal, the Tuareg nomads we were working with thought my parents came from Mauritania. \u00a0From my years of living abroad in Belgium, South Korea, Germany, and Japan I would get into a similar discussion:<\/p>\n

\"Ghana\"<\/a>
Shopping in Accra, Ghana in 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Local: “Where are you from?<\/p>\n

Me: \u00a0“I’m American”<\/p>\n

Local: \u00a0“Yes, but where are you REALLY from? Where are your parents from?<\/p>\n

Me: \u00a0“I grew up between Puerto Rico and New York, both part of the United States of America. No, really I am American”<\/p>\n

\"Trying<\/a>
Trying to pull off a dirndl in Munich…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I don’t think people do it with ill will, they’re \u00a0just fueled with curiosity on how this brown girl that doesn’t look like anything they’ve seen in imported American television ended up in their part of the world. My circle of friends from college are mostly children of immigrants. \u00a0I travel a lot with my Chinese-American\u00a0best friend, Jaime. \u00a0When\u00a0some folks\u00a0saw\u00a0us\u00a0walking together in Brussels, Paris or Cologne, \u00a0speaking plain, non-accented English… they looked puzzled.<\/p>\n

My most recent trip\u00a0was to Sicily last week. \u00a0On my way back to Amsterdam, I had to make a stopover in Rome. \u00a0The ladies\u00a0sitting next to me on the flight were Moroccan. \u00a0The lady next to me gave me that “I wonder where she’s from” look and started small talk with me, telling me that she’s Moroccan and headed back home to visit family. \u00a0 She asked me where I was from. I said New York because I truly had no energy to break down my ethnic origins, she looked kinda dissapointed. I know she was digging deeper to know if I had Northern African background and perhaps to start a conversation in order to make the flight go faster…<\/p>\n

\"Trying<\/a>
Trying to blend in Thailand back in 2003<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I chat with my other friends who are Asian or Latino in the USA, many encounter the same experiences abroad. \u00a0It starts with a simple “Where are you from” and Queens or Florida doesn’t cut it if you look “other”. \u00a0Like I said before, I don’t see these questions in a negative light, people are just naturally curious. \u00a0 For many outside the United States, America is black and white – this is what they see in TV shows, magazines, and other imported entertainment. The interesting part is that as more culturally diverse we become in our society, our media (especially travel media) becomes less reflective of what the reality on the ground is, especially in my current home city of Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

This year, given the current political climate there has been a discussion of what’s really considered to be “American”. \u00a0Every country I have visited, locals have an opinion, some positive, some negative of what being “American”\u00a0means.\u00a0In many ways I feel I am an informal ambassador to a side of America that many people outside of the country don’t get to see. \u00a0I usually tell them that America is many things, most importantly, it’s a land of 300 million people who have a wide spectrum of customs, beliefs, and origins. \u00a0Those are some of the things that makes me feel the proudest of being an American: the diversity. \u00a0Although it takes a little explaining sometimes, it is fun to share that English is not my first language, that I think both in English and Spanish, I speak both languages without an accent, my parents, although born in Puerto Rico (a\u00a0US territory)\u00a0have been US Citizens since birth,\u00a0and\u00a0I grew up on a little tropical island called Puerto Rico. \u00a0Despite the fact that people don’t get to see that side of America abroad because the media doesn’t care much about it, I am American.<\/p>\n

More about my experiences living and working abroad, read my “Latina Abroad<\/a>” story.<\/p>\n

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