I offended someone while texting on accident

7 comments

1. Nah that’s fine. Not on you.

2. That’s okay! You weren’t assuming anything, just asking. You wanted to be respectful of the fact that he might do something different, and I think that’s a very kind thing to do. I’d just laugh it off with him and be like “yeah I know, just didn’t know if you had any different cultural practices! haha”

3. I don’t think he was offended to be honest

4. You didn’t offend anyone with that.

5. On purpose. By accident. I had to throw that in there 😃. On accident is a saying from the Midwest. And no you did nothing wrong

   Your follow up is, what generation are you? Given a lot Hmong came over in the 70s (Vietnam war), he’s probably third generation. Definitely he’s American at this point. The ‘rents are tweeners

   Instead of explaining, which he’s probably tired of doing, he went with a go to defense

   Since he’s defensive, you can also throw in a, yeah I guessed that part, I was just curious if there’s anything from your grandparents culture that is on the table, or said, or done. My family is …. and relate a short thing that’s always done in your family that might not be typical American. If that’s not the case, declare your family is commercial American and you find family things that are unique to the family’s culture/beliefs to be very interesting

   The positive thing about being American is that it means so many different things to so many different people

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7. It’s fine! I’ve been asked the same question several times this week but I’m Spanish and we don’t celebrate.