Conversation with 90% of people when they find out I'm studying architecture
IT assistant literally five seconds after I ask him a question: Where are you from?Me: oh, uh.. like originally, or..
Him: yeah, originally.
Me: I'm from Cary; my parents are from Pakistan.
Him: cool! Are you planning on going to work over there? I hear they've got a lot of money and cool stuff going up.
Me: ???
Me: oh, you mean Dubai? Yeah, I guess they do. Not really my thing though.
Tagged as: brown skin = foreigner. over there = dubai. cool stuff = tacky skyscrapers built by slave labor. lesson learned..
