![]() ![]() Post-Soviet states Ĭrimean Tatars are an indigenous people of Crimea with clearly established pre-Golden Horde Scythian, Greek, and Goth roots, but authorities and nativists long have treated them as perpetual foreigners. ![]() Hate crimes, such as the murder of Vincent Chin, are described as the most brutal form of the perpetual foreigner syndrome. ![]() The message conveys a sense that the person is "not supposed to be there, or that it isn't their place," and it is often encountered when the minority person is "speaking out in predominantly white spaces." Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defines workplace comments like " Go back where you came from" as a potentially illegal form of ethnic harassment. In personal interactions, it can take the form of an act of microaggression in which a member of a minority group may be asked, "Where are you from?" It can also take the form of an explicit act of aggression in which a member of a minority group may be told, "Go back to where you came from." African Americans have been told "go back to Africa" as a racial insult, despite the fact that on average, they are more likely to have a multi-generational family history in the United States than white Americans are. It has been particularly applied as a negative stereotype of Asian Americans, but it has also affected other minority groups, which have been considered to be " the other" and therefore legally unassimilable, either historically or currently. A diaspora such as the overseas Chinese is often regarded as belonging to their ancestral homeland rather than to the country in which they live. Some countries have many refugees or other resident aliens. Naturalization laws vary, and some countries follow a rule of jus sanguinis. The perpetual foreigner stereotype is a racist or xenophobic form of nativism in which naturalized and even native-born citizens (including families that have lived in a country for generations) are perceived by some members of the majority as foreign because they belong to a minority ethnic or racial group. ![]()
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