How to avoid politely replying to : Where are you from?

zulonline — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:52:27 -0800

How to avoid or smartly reply to the question : WHERE ARE YOU FROM ? I am fed up of having to reply to this question, specially because I was born in a Country which infortunately is known for not great archivements like many Countries in Europe. I don't want to feel stereotyped any more when meeting up people , not by educated , either by ignorants , which are the worse and they only end up mentioning nonsense about my Country.

I don't like get into arguments and hate polemics, and I don't feel either as patriotic as to be defending or changing opinions to other people about the conflicts that face the Country I was born. Also many times people when don't mention the most known couse about my country I feel they instanlty make a face which is not like if I said I was born in Paris or in Britain.

I wouldn't care to mention the continent where I came from, but people always keep answering more, like but where exactly? I feel always obliged to answer.. how annoying! I simply want to find a polite/ intelligent prhrase or reply when people ask me where I am from, or where I came from avoiding to say wich is my Nationality. Obviously I don't want to hide it from people in wich I am really interested of developing a friendship, but I don't feel I have to reply to every person I meet , and seems to be that I feel obliged to tell them as a simply reply like: I don't want to answer , would be to rude and I will push people away instantly, which is not my intention either.

So please , send me any ideas to be able to answer in a lovely /clever and polite way to : Where are you from darling? Thank you ;)

What if?

Krrrlson — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:32:40 -0800

What is the origin of the phrase: "what if they had ____ and nobody came?"

Ask MetaFilter questions tagged with came

How to avoid politely replying to : Where are you from?

What if?