The other week at the resthome, my one (Tibetan) coworker with an edgy sense of humor asked me for some help.
"I'm filling out a form," she was like. "It says nationality, what do I write, Stateless?".
We then had a long conversation about her current citizenship (U.S.) and her previous country (born and raised as a stateless person in India, but not a citizen of there).
Finally, I was like, "Put Stateless, with Tibetan in parentheses right after it," and I made a cupping motion with my hands, like putting parentheses around a word.
"But I already wrote Stateless," she was like.
"Okay, then that's fine," I was like, "But maybe just be ready to change it if they have any questions."
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