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As a person of a mixed race background, I don't mind if people ask what my background is. I'm interested in others backgrounds as well. What bothers me is when people approach me and before they even say hello they ask if I speak English. The assumption that someone must be foreign because of their skin color seems a bit racist (on an unconscious level) to me.
~Christine
Bend, OR

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