Who else plays the “what ethnicity can I pass for” game when traveling? ✋🏼 What do you usually get?
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Well, less a game and more seeing in which countries people turn and casually address me in the local language, then get surprised that I can’t understand a word they’re saying. It’s happened to me in a few places, and now I can add Bulgaria to that list, as everyone I met on the awesome bar-and-cafe-filled Vitosha Boulevard assumed I was local until my confusion at being handed a menu in Cyrillic letters proved otherwise.
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By the way, this is a game I almost never win in the country I am actually almost 100% ethnically from, Greece. Why won’t you accept me, Athens? Stop giving me English menus.
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Photo of me chilling on Vitosha Boulevard.
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