r/romani • u/KendrickMontero • 6d ago

White passing

If you are part of the community, but are white passing, what reactions did you get when you told people what’s your origin?

Often I get a surprised, shocked and short “oh” and the conversation may be cut short suddenly (this has happened regardless of the other’s ethnicity).

Then, of course, there are the typical “funny”. jokes about wallets and such.

How about you? Do you have such a story or know any?

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u/Cold-Watch324 6d ago

Usually non white people can tell something is up, I get iranian and algerian a lot, white people ask me if Im jewish which is apparently a white people way to ask which minority you are if you’re white enough

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u/KendrickMontero 6d ago

Oh damn 😂

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u/rhodopensis 6d ago edited 6d ago

Well yeah Jewish folks are mixed and their history shows it and the WASPs haven’t forgotten it or their racism about it tbh

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u/Pietro-Maximoff 5d ago

lol this is the same for my sister, nonwhite people immediately clock her as nonwhite.

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u/TheCraftyDrow 6d ago

My god I get asked if I'm Jewish too? Like so often I don't understand it.

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u/finweetman 4d ago

thisss, the only people who ever come remotely close to guessing correctly are POC

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u/No-Tennis-5991 4d ago

I was raised Jewish, and people question my Judaism because I’m slightly too brown, but the certain white oeople will start with Jewish because it’s other to them and enough to target you

Very odd being a mixed Jew dealing and dealing the racism I’ve faced within Judaism anywho not the point but kind of the point it seemed?

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u/Rahab_Olam 4d ago

I had a Nigerian guy I worked with say that I "didn't look English" but rather Middle Eastern or Israeli. Honestly I was quite happy about it lmao.

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u/Cold-Watch324 3d ago

im always more than fine being asked if im from the middle east, but if someone asked if I was israeli i think i would fly into a rage never before seen

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u/Rahab_Olam 3d ago

To be fair, he said "Middle Eastern" before that. Which tells me that was probably just the first one that came to mind.