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Why do people keep asking where I'm from?
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This is often a proxy for a different question.
And that question is "why isn't your skin the same colour as mine?"
Well, if he's from Canada (as I am, no hate!), the answer is "We get like 4 hours of sunlight per day here." I wear shades to block the glare of my own reflection in the snow.
Or she! I don't know.
I'll explain his joke for him.
The comments he's replying to suggest that racism is the answer, but the poster who made this joke has more relevant information than those who assume racism immediately: OP is white as fuck. Since OP is white as fuck, and the comments were suggesting that due to racism those horrid whites just want to "other" the "other white guy" by pointing out that his "skin color is different," but seeing as they're both white, the "skin color difference" is implied to come from going outside and getting a tan. And thus the crux of the joke, Newfoundland gets less sun so the people there are more pale than say, white people in Miami.
It's also a form of othering. You are different and they are establishing why
Why is your skin colour the same as mine?
Fucking poser