My (caucasian) sociology professor went to Nigeria awhile back and the place she visited had never seen a white person before and many children acted fascinated and called her "blanca" , so yeah they're barely educated let alone well versed in racial sensitivity
She was probably the first white person they ever saw in their entire life, and they don't really have access to the internet or books or tv, so there is no way they would be able to know that there are white people in the world. They probably thought she had some sort of illness or something. Besides, it's just kids being kids. Children really don't have a lot of tact and are pretty blunt on what they feel or think, and they tend to not really understand if they said something offensive.
You do know that they got that from somewhere right?
like,They were educated by their parents who called blank people blank people
Do African adults have the excuse of beeing children?
So don't give children an excuse
I do however still excuse the children as well as the parents
***** do you not remember the 1st time you met a slanty eyed asian when u were a kid?
we didnt need to see no damn adult doing that **** for us to automatically do it ourselves as an obvious joke to perform. i think for me and my little school friends it came from the simple idea of wondering what its like to see with slanty eyes.
Yeah when my Nan (who is Irish) went to my grandfather's birth place (which is a village in the Dominican Rep.), all the children there under around 16 came running up to all my family with white skin and tried rubbing their arms as if they were covered in white ash or something.
Isn''t that what they would call themselves. Blanca meaning white and the other way negro meaning black. "Words aren't worse than you make them out to be" Is something my mom used to tell me as a child.
I was one of about 12 white people in a Chinese city. I got stared at like hell when I walked around the street, kids would point at me and say 'Mama look, a westener!'
It's not racial insensitivity, it's just that they've literally never seen someone like them before. Everywhere isn't like America.
God, the pictures.
It eventually ****** me up a little. Even now, when people ask me a question I'll just ignore them, because that was my instinct when everyone was staring at me.
It was worse for someone else I knew, they were bright blonde. Stuck out like a dick in a christmas cake.
Except that's not necessarily a matter of trying to make fun of her.
That's a matter of them legitimately not knowing hardly anything from outside their usual bubble, that's not "racially insensitive" that's just human curiosity.
well i suspect that pretty soon that shirt wont be entirely wrong.
since the euro countries moved out of their african colonies awhile back, countries like china have started moving their people in recently to exploit the natural resources and treat the locals like a pestilence to be shot at if they get in the way.
Just judging by the photo I don't even think they're really making fun of him. Maybe playful teasing, but not trying to insult him.
To them that's one of the distinguishing phenotypes they happen to see when they come across an Asian person who they have never seen anything like before in their lives. That's just what happens when people who have never been exposed to something different come across it for the first time in their lives.
Maybe they are trying to be rude, kids can be assholes sometimes, but you can't just assume based on the picture. But anyone who would go somewhere where the people there have never seen anything like them should know "Hey, the locals are going to treat me differently to begin with, and that it's probably not a matter of disrespect but a matter of curiosity stemming from lack of information."
Or if you mean white kids, then if they're white kids from somewhere in (probably) Europe where they never see Asian people and an Asian guy came in that they'd never seen anything like before, they'd probably do the same thing and I would still say basically the same thing I did here.
If he was white and they hadn't seen him before, they would likely call him a ghost or something similar, depending on culture. It's not that uncommon to hear something like that as a white person going into a culture like that. Not sure what hand gestures they would use since white people don't have that obvious thing going for them (slanted eyes), but the point stands.
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It's amazing to see how ****** up countries with real problems don't have to worry about being offensive.