[paloaltokid]

> The dialogue here seems foreign to me. Playing a coy game where you realize someone is trying to infer something about you so you dodge the question. It's weird to imagine that people engage in a cultural dance where you need certainty of arbitrary facts before you decide to act like a dick (oversimplified).

Okay but where are you really from?

[klmadfejno]

I'm not sure what you mean to imply here. If you're implying you think I'm Indian and pretending I'm not, well I'm not Indian and I don't follow why you would think that.

[paloaltokid]

I’ll stick my neck out here and say that my assumption is that you’re a white guy like myself.

If you don’t know, many non-white people get asked that question all the time. That dance you say you can’t imagine, well, it happens quite frequently.

[klmadfejno]

I don't think that's the same thing. Yes, people do pester others to determine their country of origin, but it's already plainly obvious that the answer is "foreign", or more realistically, "not white". India or Pakistan? Probably doesn't matter for the purposes of internal bias forming.

The dialogue being discussed here is about a trait which is not externally evident. It's also a direct question. Where are you really from is more or less directly asking country of origin pre-family immigration however far back that is, which would equate to outright asking someone what their caste is.