‘Go Back to Your Country’, a Phrase Heard by Many Americans

Washington, Jul 16 (Prensa Latina) Many Americans share on social media some moments in which someone told them to ”go back to your country,” even those born in the United States, as an example of racist expression against black people or people of other ethnic groups.

The issue has been unleashed in the wake of President Donald Trump’s attacks on four foreign-born Democratic congressmen, of whom the president hinted they were not born in the United States and who sarcastically suggested ‘go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.’

Nothing leaves deeper cuts than listening to ‘go back to your country’ -a phrase closely linked to adolescence and adulthood. Recently, in Santa Monica, California, two supporters of #RacistPresident shouted those words to me, Indian-American actor Manish Dayal posted on Twitter.

I have heard ‘go back to your country’ more times in the United States than in any of the other five countries in which I grew up. I am a US citizen and white people have always told that to me, Pakistani-American actor Usman Ally said.

Anyone with non-white skin born in the United States has been told to ‘go back to your country’ more times than we can tell. Now we have a president who, as expected, tweets his racist remarks, Versha Sharma, said editor for NowThis News.

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