She was asked by those weirdos stupid questions frequently

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Silverobama

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Two weeks ago, I joined a chatroom on TikTok. In that chatroom, I met "Spilt Milk", she's an American Born Chinese so people were interested in talking with her.

However, in that chatroom we also met many very strange people and they asked very weird and strange question which are quite intrusive and rude. And she was asked many times by those people those strange questions. I wrote a sentence to express the idea:

She was asked by those weirdos stupid questions frequently.

I wonder if my italic sentence is natural.
 

Tarheel

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Say:

I met Spilt Milk, an American born in China.

Or:

She's an American born in China ....

We wouldn't say "She's an American born Chinese." Why? You can't stop being Chinese (an ethnicity).
 

Glizdka

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We wouldn't say "She's an American born Chinese." Why? You can't stop being Chinese (an ethnicity).
Michael Jackson would've begged to differ. ;)
 

emsr2d2

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No, your suggested sentence is not natural. Here are the two versions you could use (passive then active).

She was frequently asked stupid questions by those weirdos.
Those weirdos frequently asked her stupid questions.
 
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