Seriously? You need me to give specific examples of specific complaints? You are way too invested in this show. Tell me why the pacing is good, or how the dialogue isn't hokey, because your opinions are obviously more valid than mine.

You do go quite out of your way to attack white folks and stereotype them on here, though, so you can pardon me for being skeptical.

But everybody's just focusing on that one time he made a mistake! And it's not fair, because it's like his whole life is being painted by this one thing he did that one time, like they're not even bothering to get to know him or give him a chance, or try to find out what kind of guy he is! They're prejudiced against…

Yeah, sweetheart, they do. Accents are relative — just like the descriptor "the locals". Just because you're among people who all speak the same way you do doesn't mean you're all magically accent-less. And it has nothing to do with "common, colloquial terms" — lexical differences have nothing to do with accents.

You are WAY overthinking this. Are you this insufferable in real life, or do you reserve that solely for your online interactions?

Really I think your comment should have been, I'm an asshole that is incapable of empathsiing with other people's problems. Oh you have had other problems than the article listed above. That's sad, maybe you should talk about it in groupthink or open thread or maybe write an article about it and I'll post to GT if you…

No, actually, it's perfectly fine to ask white people about their ethnicity. People who have benefited from white privilege their whole lives won't feel the same feelings of uncertainty or alienation if you happen to ask them about their ethnicity as a person who hasn't always had racial privilege, so you're in the…

People of my heritage aren't considered white everywhere you piece of shit. My grandfather having to leave the country to avoid gas chambers is testament to that fact.

You're giving people permission to act like assholes just because you sit in a tiny minority of people who don't mind.

First off jackass, this isn't just a PoC issue. I'm white, and I get this shit (and get people telling me that I'm wrong) more often than I'd like once they see how my name is spelled.

I get that one or two people don't mind being grilled about their blood quanta, but for fuck's sakes no one has the right to go around…

Personally, I don't feel outraged - I just feel frustrated at being reduced to just an accent on meeting new people. on dates, at a new job, walking down the street - it seems as if I'm a walking accent. I understand the curiosity - I really do. but I get that same exact curiosity from everyone I meet and I tire of…

Look, as a person with an accent who gets asked at least three times a day where they are from - I will smile and answer the questions and agree that it is so strange and funny to hear my accent in this place and oh! You thought I was from a different other place because its not an obvious accent hehehe - I will…

It's not that I don't like to talk about my origins, it's just that people seem to bring it up in the most irrelevant contexts. My patients can be some of the worst offenders where this is concerned (and granted, this is not the same as being in a social situation, but it's still a situation where two-way…

I'm white with a very non-WASP name. It's a combination of my parents' names, actually, but it sounds vaguely like it could be some non-English word for 'peace' or 'beauty' or something. I just automatically explain its origins after introductions, without being asked, the second I get the blank stare—because it always…

Ari, asking people "what they are" is a question that comes from a very privileged racial position. In the U.S., where being white is racially normative, white people are generally the ones who stumble into these hurtful lines of questioning out of ignorance.

I can only speak from my experience as a non-white American, but my problem is less about the color of the person asking and the fact that very rarely do white people in America receive this same line of questioning. It's America—a salad bowl of mixed nationalities and ethnicities and backgrounds, yet people still see…

Is this really an important thing to people? I can't recall ever asking someone I just met what their ethnicity was. Usually, if you and the person become friends, it comes up eventually, usually from them. What difference does it make, after all?

Being a person of color myself, I sometimes find myself wondering about other people's ethnicities. So you know what I do? I get over it. Unless knowing their ethnicity is paramount, I just get the fuck over my curiosity. Try it white people, it works!

One of my experiences with a guy I once talked to.

Guy: So, where do you live?

Me: Long Island.

I only ask about peoples' ethnicity if I've gotten to know them for a while, as in I've become friends with them and we've hung out. I usually just say, "I'm curious to know your ethnicity?" And sometimes add a disclaimer that they need not tell me if they don't feel comfy about it/it's no big deal or I hope not to…