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<blockquote data-quote="salishlady" data-source="post: 1462132" data-attributes="member: 141971">...or celebrity of your race is? I work in a tribal museum, and often times our guests arent so much interested in learning about the history of my tribe as they are about finding a native to showcase their knowlege of other natives to. I often get people who assume that because i am native american, I know the name and life story of every native american that ever existed. One of my good friends, who is African American, said that often times people assume the same thing with her and African american political figures and celebrities. I was wondering if this sort of unrealistic expectation is made of people from other races too.haha, thats great..but I doubt they get beligerant and start asking about why you have your job for not knowing the preferred diet of Zues. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Today a customer wanted to speak to my boss about my &quot;lack of knowlege in native american history&quot;...it was wonderful.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="salishlady, post: 1462132, member: 141971"] ...or celebrity of your race is? I work in a tribal museum, and often times our guests arent so much interested in learning about the history of my tribe as they are about finding a native to showcase their knowlege of other natives to. I often get people who assume that because i am native american, I know the name and life story of every native american that ever existed. One of my good friends, who is African American, said that often times people assume the same thing with her and African american political figures and celebrities. I was wondering if this sort of unrealistic expectation is made of people from other races too. haha, thats great..but I doubt they get beligerant and start asking about why you have your job for not knowing the preferred diet of Zues. ;) Today a customer wanted to speak to my boss about my "lack of knowlege in native american history"...it was wonderful. [/QUOTE]

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