What's Wrong With Asking “Where Are You From?”

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by Rakshitha Arni Ravishankar

October 22, 2020Dusty Pixel photography/Getty Images
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Four years ago, I moved to New York to start pursuing my journalism degree at a graduate program in the city. I spent my first week researching and reporting an audio story about the local farmer’s market. When I handed it in, my professor looked down at the script I had written, looked back up at me, and said, “Your English is good. Where are you from?”

RRRakshitha Arni Ravishankar is an associate editor at Ascend.
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