“On a deck in Boston, seven friends recently gathered for dinner. At the table was a white American man; his wife, an Italian woman he met in Switzerland; a Swiss citizen raised in Kenya; a German of Korean origin; a woman with Haitian, Chinese and European ancestry; the son of a black American and a German Jew; and an American with Indian blood.
It took a while to get through the where-are-you-fromming, as it often can these days.” (The Struggle of the Global Placeless)
Now this is a good question … While this is one of the most common questions, it can also be one of the trickiest. Click on comment if you feel like revealing where you’re from! (No indiscretion intended!)