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Originally Posted by peter12
Does this really ever happen all that much? Most of the time, I think people are perceptive enough to ask because they know the other person is longing to make a familiar connection.
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It happens enough, and sometimes it is pretty offensive to the person be asked. For instance I have a First Nations friend who is asked pretty frequently where in Asia she's from. There's such an obviously more tactful way to ask if it's something you're dying to know where a person is from:
"So are you originally from [insert current city]?"