So solvent90 being asked instead of their friends can be less "no-one cares about ethnicity here" (people here do care a lot, unfortunately) and more it being obvious enough to not ask.
I'll accept that that's likely to be true in Germany. In Britain, however, I don't think that's what's going on; I don't think my brownness makes me less "obviously" non-English than a white person from Russia.
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Re: here via metafandom
Date: 2009-12-19 01:40 pm (UTC)I'll accept that that's likely to be true in Germany. In Britain, however, I don't think that's what's going on; I don't think my brownness makes me less "obviously" non-English than a white person from Russia.