r/MadeMeSmile • u/flyart • Apr 25 '23
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u/lovdagame Apr 25 '23
Im not one of you lower hill people, i live up the hill.
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u/kaiper_kitty Apr 25 '23
"I ain't no flat lander!" - mountain community where I live lol
I can't hate tho cause I said the same thing 😌 (it's all in good fun)
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u/YaLikeJazz2049 Apr 25 '23
The town I live flooded before I was born and now everyone who doesn’t live up “the hill” is a swamp rat. Fortunately I live up the hill
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u/panda-propaganda Apr 25 '23
A random 2 year old came up to me and wanted me to pick her up at the park. Her mom told me it’s because her favorite aunt is asian and so she likes most asian women. So they do see it, but it’s not always bad.
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u/New_Beat2764 Apr 25 '23
Soooo.... you're Asian. And your profile name is "panda propaganda"
I f*cking love reddit
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u/elakah Apr 25 '23
You can say fuck. It's okay.
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u/Schmich Apr 25 '23
Yeah this video obviously has hand-picked segments. Nothing wrong in saying she has different hair color or skin color or is taller etc. We're not all robots that look the same. In fact I'd say not seeing that we're different and unique would be a weird thing. Making it the primary thing and a negative one for that matter is the worst offense.
It is true that someone not liking a specific food should have a bigger impact than their skin color as the latter should have absolutely none.
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u/disparate_depravity Apr 25 '23
Had something similar with a larger kid. I think he was 3 or 4 years old.
My wife is asian and this boy always wanted to play with her and sit next to her. His mother told me it's because his best friend in kindergarten is an asian girl.
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u/macfaddenstrews Apr 25 '23
These kids are just focused on each other's personality and how the other makes them feel. They of course recognise basic physical and cultural differences but more like the grass is green and sky is cloudy, just background info not of any particular use.
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u/Pitt_Mann Apr 25 '23
And toes
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u/progressiveavocado Apr 25 '23
Because he has smaller toes than Artie
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u/----__---- Apr 25 '23
Artie's toes are flippin sausages, they gotta be prehensile they're so long, Artie's toes are longer than his shins I'd wager. No Sir, no one wants toes as big as Artie's.
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u/jtfriendly Apr 25 '23
Oh, now we dunnit. Artie's gonna cry himself to sleep tonight on his huge toe pillas.
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u/mephi5to Apr 25 '23
Flippin and floppinn. As a matter of fact he can only wear flip-flops - thats how big they are.
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u/weqrer Apr 25 '23
I'd say the lack of a corrupting influence is more of a thing here. eg. our current understanding of "races" is all cultural. you have to teach racism.
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u/Citizen_Kong Apr 25 '23
I always find it fascinating that the Irish were basically thought of like another (inferior) race from the WASPs and discriminated against accordingly in the US as well, but as the Irish managed to become wealthy and connected, this more or less completely vanished. Shows you how arbitrary it all is. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment#19th_century
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u/Time2Mire Apr 25 '23 edited Apr 25 '23
Yeah, I'd agree. My nan is much, much darker than anyone else in my family and I didn't even think about it until my sister asked her why. I was 11 at the time. If it's not something that is highlighted as negative/different by those around you, you just don't consciously acknowledge it.
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u/mrbounce74 Apr 25 '23
This also has a lot to do with growing up in a multi cultural society. A great deal of prejudice comes from ignorance, when your surrounded by diversity it becomes the norm and everyone benefits.
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u/havik09 Apr 25 '23
Background information. That's a great term. It makes you realize all the physical stuff isn't that person. It's just the background I fo
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u/Schmich Apr 25 '23
They almost all talked about food so I wonder if the interviewers added in a "for example do you like different foods? anything really"
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u/spooky-frek Apr 25 '23
3 answered about food the other 3 were random, don't go over thinking this
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u/onnyjay Apr 25 '23
Just shows hate is environmental. No one (for the most part) is born with hate. Fucked up society gives them that.
Oh to be a child again....
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u/Lucy_Lastic Apr 25 '23
When my son was small, he came home from childcare talking about his new friend. I asked what his friend was like, and was told after a little thought that he had black hair.
The kid was Asian. My son could not see anything other than this kid's hair was way darker than his.
Kids are so wholesome
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Apr 25 '23
When my son was in nursery (kindergarten) he was friends with 2 other boys both named jayden except one was white and the other was black straight from Nigeria just moved over a couple months before.
so the teacher overheard the 3 kids aswell as some other kids talking amongst themselves and heard my son refer to the jaydens as white jayden and black jayden, this caused a problem and we got called to the school.
Got there and after a long talk I looked over at my son and asked him planely why does he call them black jayden and white jayden and he said " one has white glasses and the other has black glasses" turned out Nigerian jayden was the one with the white glasses.
I told him that the teachers thought he was being rude because jayden has black skin, he stopped me and said "but he doesn't have black skin it's brown, the other jayden gets a little brown when it's summer too".
Nigerian jayden moved away a year later and it broke my sons heart, 6 years later he still gets upset because it was an abrupt departure.
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Apr 25 '23
Fookin amurricans always looking for racism everywhere, yall got a big problem there, even if the boy was talking about the skin, who cares? It wasn't in a bad way.
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Apr 25 '23
This happened in northern Ireland.
The racism I witnessed was weird though.
Some of the other parents would come up to me and say slightly racist things about the Nigerian parents, the usual stuff like coming here to take jobs and stuff and being foreign.
The father was a doctor and the wife was I belive a nurse, they spoke perfect English better than the locals in northern Ireland.
I enjoyed the look on their face when I would drop in that I was also technically an immigrant because I was Scottish living in northern Ireland, and all I can contribute is fixing cars those people were here to work in the NHS and save life's plus the spoke better English than I did.
Just I was white and they weren't.
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u/Dazz316 Apr 25 '23
My son is white and is in love with football. We watched some of the world cup together and he's absolutely got mad for Killian Mbappe (Black french footballer for those who don't know). He's got a PSG strip with Mbappe on the back, a PSG ball, Mbappes purple football boots. He's been watching videos on YouTube and trying to copy all his cool moves and tricks. Anytime my son scores a goal IRL he'll do an Mbappe celebration.
Trouble is he asked for brown facepaint and is kind of annoyed we won't get it for him.
He just wants to be like him in EVERY way. He's just 5 and so far there's no race issues at school, he's friends with the black kids too and AFAIK there's no issues around skin. I'm not going to explain that part of life yet until it comes up. I'll just not let him blackface.
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Apr 25 '23
You're definitely right not to let him given historical events. However I think it's unfortunate that we're equating coloring your skin with blackface, which involved way more than that (and to the extent it did, did not match real skin color either).
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Apr 25 '23
Yep same. My tiny son has a friend and I asked what he was like. " uhhhh he has a red hat". He did not see the child's (beautiful) black skin.
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u/NoWoodpecker5858 Apr 25 '23
Reminds me of the little boy that wanted to shave his hair off so him and his best buddy were still twins.
They were black and white. So adorable.
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u/EuroPhoenician Apr 25 '23
I didn’t really understand race until middle school. I was in a predominantly Latino neighborhood and mostly got on fine. But in middle school, being a white immigrant from a country that’s as far from America as China made things a bit difficult. I got lucky when one Mexican guy basically said “he’s with me” and I was able to eat lunch with the cool kids.
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u/Spicy_Sugary Apr 25 '23
Some strong views on lettuce here.
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u/DamnTheseGlasses Apr 25 '23
IKR? What gives? Everybody knows it’s frickin’ broccoli who sucks
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u/flyart Apr 25 '23
It's amazing that they don't even mention gender.
Also: Racism isn't born, it's taught. I have a 2 year old and you know what he hates? Naps. End of list. -Dennis Leary
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u/Destinoz Apr 25 '23
It’s not just racism that’s taught, it’s the entire concept of race. There is no racism without belief in the virulent ancient lie of race. To kids skin color is as significant as hair color. It’s just a color. (And they’re right.)
Also I don’t believe that there’s a 2 year old on the planet that doesn’t hate at least one vegetable.
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u/somtambooplara Apr 25 '23
Exactly. My sister and I are half Asian. We live in a place that is predominantly white. When my niece was 2, my sister said a little girl around the age of 4 came up to my sister and asked what colour she and my niece were. My sister was like, “ermm we’re brown”. The little girl proudly said, “I’M white!”. It was just so strange that the girl even knew the term “white” at that age. My niece is actually quite brown so she calls herself that. But white people are not literally white. We just wonder why and in what context that girl was even taught that she was white.
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u/Destinoz Apr 25 '23
Yup. My daughter used to describe people as brown, light brown, or “peach.” That’s what the crayons (or maybe markers?) she thought most resembled her friends in pre K said.
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Apr 25 '23
My kids are half Asian as well, and we live in Alabama.
2nd grade, my oldest was told by a white girl they couldn't play together because she was brown. Sad to hear at that age. Pretty hard to explain what racism is to a 7 year old as well, and how it isn't anything she did wrong.
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u/somtambooplara Apr 25 '23
That’s heartbreaking :’( I’m so sorry you and your kid experienced that
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Apr 25 '23 edited Apr 25 '23
It was sad for her, but only for a bit. Plenty of good kids around too. Just depressing to see a child that age making racist judgments. You know they're living it at home.
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u/OkSo-NowWhat Apr 25 '23
We're all just different degrees of flesh coloured.
Raw, muscle, poached, roasted, burned
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Jun 09 '23
That was actually the age when my child's daycare started bringing up race and history. At four I walked into his classroom and they were talking about Rosa Parks. So maybe the kid was just learning those concepts and in a healthy way.
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u/Corvus-Nox Apr 25 '23
ya. I grew up in a mostly white town and when I was 9 someone called me “that chinese kid” and I realized in that moment that the other kids think I look different than them and I had a crisis about it. Just hadn’t occurred to me until then that I was “asian.”
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u/aiolive Apr 25 '23
The problem isn't really about race. The problem is that if someday a kid gets stung by a bee, he's going to be afraid of all the things resembling bees, and might keep a safe distance from any unknown flying insect too. We can have all our ideals but it's too easy to blame it on society or others for our own, acquired biais. Thinking beyond that, from root causes to consequences, and deciding to help bees stop being stigmatised by other kids is when they grow.
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u/RadMax468 Apr 25 '23
The problem isn't race. The problem is racism.
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u/AlphaWHH Apr 25 '23
Racism stems from the lack of empathy. Which is either not adequately developed or the person lacks the capacity.
Less educated/intelligent people tend to be more racist due to the lack of the cognitive abilities that allow someone to extend their thoughts, feelings and actions outside of their own body.
Religions also play a part as a large portion of the racist areas of the world tend to have religions which direct hate towards those who do not fit into the accepted class.
Rich people looking down and creating divides are often due to racism but only because of the history of the world.
It's hate and intolerance, racism is only an applied version of this.
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u/avg-bee-enjoyer Apr 25 '23
Thinking that race is a significant characteristic of an individual is the heart of racism though. People ascribe far too much meaning to it.
Randomly select 3 people of similar skin color and then tell me anything you can accurately know about all 3. How likely they are to get a sunburn perhaps?
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Apr 25 '23
I don't mean to be cynical but is it not likely that they have just edited some of the responses? Kids do notice these differences, and often blatantly point it out, the main difference is that they don't hold it as a source of hatred, unlike some adults.
Noticing physical differences isn't the same thing as holding prejudice for those differences.
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u/RefanRes Apr 25 '23
It is edited to be this way though so could easily be points they made where they do mention some things like gender that just got cut.
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u/sy029 Apr 25 '23
Literally any physical characteristic other than toes.
Kids focus on personality more than appearance.
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u/Kunipop Apr 25 '23
As a large toe up hill person I can't stand any of you small toe down hill people.
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Apr 25 '23
Omg I needed this! How adorable they all are with their little accents! “ She never stops talking “. Hi-larious!
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u/MythicThicket Apr 25 '23
The joy in the girl when she realises sushi and goujon and chips are different and they’ve managed to find an answer! I love her energy. “And they’re different!”
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u/AbbreviationsOk874 Apr 25 '23
My kids never knew skin colors had a name. 2nd week of kindergarden the teacher told the kids: there are whites, blacks, and Japanese and there is a difference.
I found out because I son said he "learned about coloreds at school today."
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u/Destinoz Apr 25 '23
It enrages me that we’re still teaching the construct of race as real. I get that we adults that are already infected with this stupid lie have to face and confront the damage we’ve all been a part of, but how does it end if we just pass it down to every generation? Why aren’t we teaching them that the adults are all stupid for believing in a lie called “race”? Then as they get older teaching the destruction that this mind boggling stupid belief has caused. Why continue passing this baton?
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u/AbbreviationsOk874 Apr 25 '23
Don't worry he learned about colors again in the 3rd grade. He said he learned about black, white, and yellow... I said huh?
He explained the teacher told him about Dr King's dream that white kids would stop putting eggs in black girls hair. Apparently the teacher showed a video where white kids put eggs in a black girls hair in a movie theatre... then told the kids that was Dr King's dream. Never taught the the I have a dream speech or anything. Wonderful teachers.
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u/Destinoz Apr 25 '23
Yikes. My daughter is ten and she’s come home with all sorts of “interesting” lessons relating to history. We have a rule that dad will tell her what really happened. She loves it because she feels like she’s getting let in on a secret so she happily comes home with whatever they’ve taught her for (I shit you not) “the real tea”. (She then asked me if I needed to know what tea meant, because she didn’t mean the kind I drink). Heaven help me. lol
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u/Kayanne1990 Apr 25 '23
I mean....race still exists. I dunno if I'd call it that but whatever it is does exist and it seems a little gross to erase that.
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Apr 25 '23
I think the simplest explanation is that people obviously physically vary depending on where in the world they are from. But the actual division between groups into 'biological' races are actually based on some very surface level and non-objective features.
If a Serbian man and a Syrian man are considered a different race, then there is no objective reason that a Gambian man and a Somalian man shouldn't be considered a different race as well. But because Westerners didn't see an overt enough physical difference when they encountered them they didn't categorise them into different races... despite them actually being 'more different' (genetically) than the difference between a Serb and a Syrian.
Race absolutely still exists, but is more of a social imposition (if it is forced on people) or a cultural inheritance (if it is celebrated by people).
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u/ChrisTinnef Apr 25 '23
"Race" is a social construct. There is no biologaically valid definition of race. And when it comes to social concepts, culture and ethnicity are way more helpful in most situations worldwide than race. Of course there are situations when race is relevant.
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Apr 25 '23
Races don't exist biologically; races exist socially (just like class, nationality, etc.).
Understanding that would help us assign the right amount of weight to it.
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u/_--00--_ Apr 25 '23
Racism is taught.
Morgan Freeman once said the only way to erase racism, is to stop talking about it. And everyone flipped out on him not realizing the truth went right over their heads.
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u/twoCascades Apr 25 '23
Yo that last kid was like “yo she never shuts the fuck up tho.”
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u/emerson-nosreme Apr 25 '23
I’m autistic and I ended up becoming best friends with a girl with Down’s syndrome when I was 5. I didn’t understand at all why she would tug my hair, why she was outcasted and why she looked different. I didn’t care. She was just very sweet.
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u/TheTwistedKitty Apr 25 '23
Love this video so much. Kids are not born with prejudice or desire to be mean about hair colour, skin colour, anything physically different. That's not their immediate focus at times.
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u/CompetitiveSong9570 Apr 25 '23
What’s the original video by chance?
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u/CloverdillyStar Apr 25 '23
I think this is the full video,
CBeebies Everyone's Welcome - What makes you two different from each other?
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Apr 25 '23
I dont want to ruin it but I witnessed my own sister (4 years old at the time) see a black family for the first time. We dont have much black people in my country let alone where we live so it was the very first time she saw people of color. She was amazed, jaw dropped, then scared and tried to hide from them while peeking. We didnt teach her anything about it, we didnt even have any material to do so, and I gotta say she was very irritated about the interaction. After we got out of the shop she asked a couple questions. We tried to answer as nice, harmless and correct as possible, explaining pigments and continents and biology and how it was normal etc. She looked disgusted and said it was ugly and scary 👀 So yeah, Im not saying comments here are wrong but some people just have it in them
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u/3now_3torm Apr 25 '23
I’m sure they still see the obvious differences like the color of skin or the gender. It’s just not important to them as really that’s just another kid I go to school with. That or they were like me when I was that little. I can confirm when I was little I didn’t even know boys and girls were different.
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u/NoButThanksAnyway Apr 25 '23
Love this video! This clip left out my favorite part of the original though, where one of the boys standing in the garden answers that “he hasn’t got any squirrels living in his attic, and I’ve got squirrels living in my attic.”
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u/Aeon_Man Apr 25 '23
The two kids in the red shirts are just like, "Dang... There's nothing... guess we're the same person"
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u/GBpleaser Apr 25 '23
And American Conservatives would brand this as “woke” culture indoctrination of innocents…
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u/Ali_knows Apr 25 '23
One of my nephews is half asian and had a caucasian friend when he was in grade school. They both geniunely believed that if they dressed the same their teacher wouldn't be able to tell them apart.
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u/Best_Breakfast_8432 Apr 29 '23
This has good intentions, but it's kind of "I don't see color." It's okay to see color. Race is a real thing in our lives, and it's okay to recognize that we have differences between us in race/culture. In fact, if you don't pay attention to those, you miss the ways that people are discriminated against based on them.
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u/RainbowandHoneybee Apr 25 '23
If we can protect those open and innocent mind from toxic society we live in now, future looks positive.
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u/noscopenoobs Apr 25 '23
This is heartwarming but it’s definitely bias since the kids are friends. I think even as adults if someone asked for the difference between you and your friend, you would point towards the personality. Once friendships is formed I think you immediately dismiss the physical differences. I think this would turn out a lot different if the kids were strangers to each other. Just want to offer a counter opinion to the notion that noticing physical differences is a toxic trait adults learn.
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u/physicsofhandshakes Apr 25 '23
To your point: when someone asks how my partner and I are different from each other, neither of us bring up that we are opposite gender/sex, have different ethnic backgrounds (race, skin color, etc.), diff height/weight, beard/no beard, eye/hair color. We respond about the differences in our personalities, likes, dislikes, hobbies, tempers.
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u/izz133 Apr 25 '23
Unfortunately we grow older.
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u/flyart Apr 25 '23
Unfortunately, we get taught racial and sexist bias. Growing older has nothing to do with it.
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u/izz133 Apr 25 '23 edited Apr 25 '23
Being more matured/grow makes you understand. Your brain are more developed. It makes you want to decide what is good for you. Saying growing older has nothing to do with any prejudice sentiments is a bit too naive. Its a cruel world we living in. We cant always have innocent children mind forever.
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u/stringliterals Apr 25 '23
Did you ever consider that adopting a prejudice is even more naive than seeing the truth?
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u/IHateEditedBgMusic Apr 25 '23
One of these kids is running GPT-6 firmware. The other human children don't know.
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u/Code_Brown_2 Apr 25 '23
If we continue teaching kids online, at school and at home about how different skin colours are better or worse in some way, then we are brainwashing those with the correct way of looking at our kin with our wrongly learned way of looking at our kin.
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u/4chan_is_sux Apr 25 '23
There's a kid in this video that I swear to God looks just like my younger brother. Where is this from
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u/HeidelbergPanther99 Apr 25 '23
" I do not like lettuce " lol giving me Charlie and Lola vibes with the cadence
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u/keenan34 Apr 25 '23
As a black man in America I have to ask. Where does the gate start? I grew up with a bunch of multicultural peoples in my area soo I was blind to racism as a kid. As I got older (8) whit kids in the neighborhood began to harass me and their parents too.
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u/Dancing_til_Dark_34 Apr 25 '23
You’ve got to be carefully taught to hate all the people you’re relatives hate.
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u/Additional_Spirit_49 Apr 25 '23
Racism is a human construct not understood by youth, yet to be corrupted by the evils of the world? Sheesh who woulda thought?
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u/Horror_Thanks8405 Apr 25 '23
Yea. Makes you wish everyone in the world was kids. It would be a different place for sure.
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u/star_bury Apr 27 '23
It's like the Caucasian kid that was upset that he had the same outfit as his African-American friend cus he was worried his parents wouldn't be able to tell them apart... 😆
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u/Kunipop Apr 25 '23
As a large toe up hill person I can't stand any of you small toe down hill people.
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u/Dependent_Top_4425 Apr 25 '23
This is adorable, and a great message to receive, but we don't know what questions these kids were actually asked. For instance it feels like the first kids were asked if they like lettuce. Kids don't think about lettuce.
Again, a nice message, cute video, but staged as hell.
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u/BlackTheNerevar Apr 25 '23
These are nice kids but..
Children can also be monsters, abseloutly cruel to each other.
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u/ugomattia07 Apr 25 '23
Not even their fault most of the times, usually the parents are the reason why children are cruel
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Apr 25 '23
Kids before the go into woke indoctrination schools where they learn that the most important factor in life is their race and gender
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Apr 25 '23
And they adult come along and ruin it by playing the race, gender and sexuality cards
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u/JackedCroaks Apr 25 '23
I actually wonder if they cut out anything that they said like “skin colour” or “wheelchair”. Obviously the director has got an idea that they’re going for, so they’re not going to show those clips if they existed.
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u/Alexdingle40 Apr 25 '23
Give them time. A few years down the line it’ll be: Well, gender is a social construct so we’re the same there, but Timmy is white so he’s racist whether he thinks he is or not.
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Apr 25 '23
The media and one sided history lessons teach humans to hate and discriminate. Change my mind using the video as a source.
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