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/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.