Do I LOOK like I'm from Africa????

Ok, I think that I have tried to be patient with Norwegians up to this time. I understand that they are a newly immigrant country, and blah blah blah ... but I had the last straw today ... Too bad... poor old guy.
But I'm so tired of the same conversation....

Hi. Oh Hello (Of course all of this is in Norwegian) ...
Where are you from?
Trinidad and Tobago
Oh ... What part of Africa is that?
pause pause pause .. breath breath and hide the rolling of the eyes.

or.
Hello.
Hi.
Do you speak Norwegian?
Yes a little bit
Are you from Africa?

eyes drop into halfway open and begin to blink rapidly as I start to formulate the polite response.... which more than often is just ... NO

My brothers and my sisters from Africa, I have nothing against you. I cannot deny my roots because at some point in time my ancestors must have come from Africa .. somew... For that I'm quite frankly happy that it was ... somewhere along the line ... Africa is great .. I'm sure .. I've never been ... but now who really would WANT to live ther? Its become like Iran and Iraq ....  a kind of pity sigh exudes if they say they come from there... Why? I suppose because of all the negative things you hear about it all .. but then again .. Don't we hear negative things about EVERYWHERE? ..
I'm sure it's just the stigma attached ...
But I will not Blab about this ...
The fact remains that I AM in Fact a Callalloo .... A real mix of plenty thing ... I can't help it if the Black genes are perhaps the strongest on earth so that as soon as a Pure black person mixes with a pure caucasion .. the result  is .... BLACK ...
I don't know about you .. but when i mix white and black on my colour palate I get grey ... and knowing the genes as the wonderful thing that they are .... chances are a mixed kid can look nothing mixed with black and vise versa ....
So now my Norwegian people ... who I am planning on living with ... Either you all need to get on the Computer .. in a book .. or something and realise that black people live EVERYWHERE and not just in Africa...

This man came knocking on my door... Poor old guy I'll put it down to that he has not really seen or heard much of the world since he was in fact A Jehovah's Witness ...

Nothing again the people just to make sure I don't get any hate mail ....

He stood outside my door holding up the norwegian pamphlet and asking if I had heard the story about the Bible etc.
I honestly thought to see if I could engage him in Norwegian conversation ... but my stomach was not interested and I was in the middle of preparing Lunch.
I started to pretend that I couldn't understand (oh .. remember the days we used to pretend that we could pretend that we didn't understand?? .. hahaha .. well I got to do it!)
Hmmm ... he said .... Are you from Africa ?
Poor guy. I did contemplate letting all my frustrations of the lack of knowledge upon this poor little man ..
I imagined the scene playing out a little like this.
From Africa you say ....
Africa?
No, I said .....
Are you from somewhere by Hawaii? .
WHAT??? Look ere man .... I tink you need to go home and read a little bit more about the world .
Are you aware that Black people live in the Caribbean, in France, In Italy, In Europe, in America? In Latin America, in Alaska, in Thailand in Australia and I'm sure in China and the Soviet Union .. although I suppose they would be rare as well ..
But COME ON!!!... Just cuz I'm black means I come from Africa?? ..
Oh Get. With. The. Program!!!
And just slam the door in his face.

But I'm too polite ...... sigh .. so it was simply a fantasy that allowed me to get rid of the frustration .... fast enough before I actually just said,
Its in the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago ..... Do you know where the Caribbean is? Let me bring out an Iphone to show you ... What? You have not heard about an iphone ? Why am I not surprised ... It was made in Africa!.
Ok .. no ... I didn't say that either ...
But I politely refused .. got his pamphlet for free and went back inside raving about why people can't get with the program.
Although, truth be told ... Americans do a similar thing...
like.... I'm from Trinidad .. Oh really?? YEA MANN REGGAE! ... No buddy .. yuh wrong.. dahz Jamaica .... Is not the same thing?
Steups....

As I take a breath and just calm down a little bit more ... .and now that my stomach has a little more food in it too... I'm wiser to think that everyone has their faults ...
And Quite frankly ... I can't blame the bigger countries for not knowing about the little ones.... I mean, after all, we who went to school in Trinidad have a pretty good Schooling system and learnt about the countries of the world .... so we ALL know that Norway is some Freezing  cold place up somewhere near the North Pole where people still live in little ice houses, keep animals, ride in sleighs with reindeer, go ice fishing for fish,  see polar bears everyday, it snows ALL the time and everyone is blonde.

Whey yuh say?