Why not just enjoy the fact someone cares enough to even ask you about yourself? We get it you’re from “here” great. The people asking you are not trying to be funny or mean, no need to find it a sort of comedy or a source of anger. Get over yourself and enjoy the ride!

Eh. I’m from the same land as Abul Layth and my experience has always been the opposite — if not utterly indifferent, born Muslims are much more likely to put the white convert on a pedestal. If he converted in front of them, they praise the trueness of his faith in contrast to their supposedly under-appreciated inheritance. If he came to them a Muslim, they’ll hold his knowledge above their own and make him give a talk, teach a class, watch their kids, etc.

The foolish white convert of course assumes the latter to have something to do with the knowledge his nafs tells him he actually possesses. Trust me now, all of the fresh faced young white converts reading this, that is rarely the case. The nature of your liberal arts education and the process of adult conversion may combine to mean you know more of the ahkam than many of them, but the fact that they offer and you agree to become the khatib or the principal of the Sunday school should be the first clue that they most likely know something that you do not.

That’s really almost the reverse of my experience, but I do live in another land and on another continent.