Buying bananas this afternoon:
Shop proprietor (in Arabic): That will be 2,000 dinar (about $1.60)
Me: Okay, great, hang on just a second (rummage in my bag for cash)
Me: You speak Arabic, not Kurdish. Where are you from?
Shop guy: Syria (names region). What about you, Syrian as well?
Me: No, I'm American actually
Shop guy: ..... Iraqi?
Me: Nope, American, I just learned Arabic.
Shop guy: Are you Iraqi-American?
Me: No, American-American.
Shop guy: But you speak Arabic.
Me: Yeah, I studied in school and lived in Palestine and Tunisia too, and here now, obviously.
Shop guy: You... live here? Where is your family from?
Me: America.
Shop guy: Huh.. America...
Learn a foreign language... It confuses people.
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