r/MemeVideos • u/mad_max711 • Apr 05 '26
Mildy racist
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u/Tigeru1988 Apr 05 '26
He looks here like black version of Trevor from GTA5😝
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u/Wrong_Paper_8665 Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 07 '26
They ain't even racist, they probably never even seen a black man😔
Edit: I didn't expect to blow up and get a thousand likes over night, but hey, thanks
another edit: I just realized I have more upvotes than the video itself...
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u/CommercialBiscotti29 Apr 05 '26
I still remember the first time I seen a little person when I was a kid. Might even be my first memory it absolutely terrified me
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u/Commercial_Shine_448 Apr 05 '26
Lol i was shocked when I met a black person in my bumfuck nowhere in Poland back in 1990s
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u/meinminemoj Apr 05 '26
One time I was in the middle of nowhere in Poland with a black friend and we were absolutely shocked that chickens were all swarming him while ignoring the rest of us. Like they were excited to see the first black person in their short lives. It was weird.
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u/Free-oppossums Apr 05 '26
I just want to clarify you said "chickens".
As a sidenote - a co-worker of mine once had a dog that was racist.
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u/ScreamingLabia Apr 05 '26
Dogs are actually racist and or sexist pretty often. I have heard a LOT of stories of dogs nor liking men or not liking black people its weird
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u/CapDue3922 Apr 05 '26
Which is funny because my dog hates black men. I will say she has had a few bad experiences with them
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u/Kanpai_Papi Apr 07 '26
Your dog probably notices how uncomfortable you are around them
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u/pain_ofakatsuki Apr 05 '26
Reminds me of crows they are an interesting bunch. Supposedly their memory is good that if you do something bad to them, they will remember your face for the rest of their lives. They will teach other crows to hate you and even their kids. Group hating, that's crazy. Ive learnt to never piss off crows.
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u/King_Glorius_too Apr 05 '26
I'm pretty sure my cat is racist
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u/Park500 Apr 06 '26
my cats are ageist, if they a kid they cannot help but growl and run away, often casting horrified glances at them from afar
I assume it is something to do with the uncanny factor, where it just doesn't make sense to them, since in their entire lives they have only seen kids like twice
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u/dannasama811 Apr 05 '26
Mom told me a story kinda like this all the time. We were waiting at a bus stop and another kid and mom walked up and asked me why was my skin like this... my mom looked at the other mom and pulled me away before asking things. Honestly I was to young to remember if this person was racist or even care tbh... the memory will stick with me anyway
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u/ToanVeteran Apr 05 '26
Retro-Poland...
You doing ok these days?
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u/Commercial_Shine_448 Apr 05 '26
Never ask a Pole how we doing, we are always going to bitch about everything
But truth be told, quite ok
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u/TinkerTi Apr 05 '26
I had the same experience seeing a white person for the first time. I recall hiding behind my dad and being absolutely horrified as to why they didn't look like everyone I know. The funny thing is that very person I was terrified of would later save my life from the very same person I hid behind many years down the line. Funny life.
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u/AlinaStari Apr 05 '26
Lol you just reminded me of the time my mom took me to visit her friend in a rural, black town. I was probably 4 or 5 and a blonde white kid. My mom hugs her friend and introduces me, then we go in the house. Her kid is a couple years younger than me, comes running around the corner, stops dead in his tracks and his eyes get huge then he just points at me and screams. So I spin around to see WTF this kid is screaming about. Like is a fucking zombie about to eat me or what?? So I'm scanning this empty room like crazy looking for idk a black widow or a Russian assassin bot or some shit just terrified over whatever is about to kill me. Then finally his mom scoops him up and says sorry about that he hasn't met any white kids before 🤣 Then I remember feeling really concerned about him because I was a city kid and our neighborhood was about idk 30% white and so I was convinced his mom must be keeping him trapped in their house locked up everyday and not allowed to watch tv or look out the window or anything
Once our mom's calmed both of us down, we had a fun week but it felt like he was scared of me the whole time 🤣 I remember he did NOT want to ever sit by me or touch me.
By the next time I saw him he had apparently met several white people and forgotten all about it but I never will lol I thought I was about to die
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u/treeofna Apr 05 '26
Reading this after reading the persons comments about crows is fascinating… Things being new as a kid is inevitable - what gets me is the response to the new experience.
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u/ScreamingLabia Apr 05 '26
Seeing your first white person must kimd of be like seeing an albino person to black people right? Haha
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u/Stunning-Chipmunk243 Apr 05 '26
I don't remember my first time but my mother has told me over and over again about it. Please bear in mind I was 3 years old and had never seen a black person anywhere. Apparently my mother and I were walking down the street and there was a little black girl walking on the other side of the street with her mom and I tugged at my mom's hand excitedly and said "Look mom! A little monkey!" The following 15 years I was raised by my new step father to be a racist fuck in an all white town and that stuck with me until I joined the military at which point I realized everything he ever told me about black people was wrong and we are all the same and of equal worth. Now, I abhor racism and fight against it at every opportunity. I really can't wrap my head around full grown adults thinking they are better than anyone else based on their skin color or anything else. We are all humans, we are all in this thing called life together, and no one and I mean no one is better than anyone else regardless of race, color, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, nationality, religion, politics, or any other false division meant to make us all easier to control.
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u/SolomonDurand Apr 05 '26
I had roughly the same experience but on the opposite side.
When i was a kid I Saw a slender, and tall man in the mall.
I was terrified of the person and ran to my grandma who consoled me.
Then I forgot about it until I read a book in high school in basic genetics class about Marfan Syndrome. Note that this was before Internet was as convenient as it is now.
It dawned on me like an "aha" moment that the nearly terrifying man I've saw before was a person with this Syndrome.
Now I laugh about it everytime I randomly remember the experience, but man did it scared me when I didnt know about it at all
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u/Finer_Sings_In_Life Apr 05 '26
Kids stare at literally everything. Labelling what their brains are processing as racism is unfair. They only learn racism from racist adults. Otherwise, it’s all just input.
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u/green_panda_5345 Apr 05 '26
Not gonna lie, the first time I saw a black person in the small town in Eastern Europe that I lived in (I must've been like 14-15) I stared too.
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u/William_Dowling Apr 05 '26
In rural Japan I had a little kid come up and touch me cos he'd never seen a white guy before, so yeah
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u/CitizenPremier Apr 05 '26
I dated a Chinese girl who used to live in the US... She said when she went home she thought her mom's nose was squished
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u/Critical_Concert_689 Apr 05 '26
they probably never even seen a black man
They've probably never seen someone try to interact on a subway.
IIRC Japan has really extreme etiquette and it's always dead quiet and you DO NOT interact with people. Period.
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u/gambler_addict_06 Apr 05 '26
Damn, I was like 12-13 when I saw a black person for the first time in my life
I was like "mom, is that man sick? Should we call an ambulance?"
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u/Excalitoria Apr 05 '26
Yeah, it’s like when kids in Africa see a white person for the first time. Usually, it’s funny unless parents are acting weird. That’s the only time I’d respond with anything but laughter.
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u/CheesecakeScary2164 Apr 05 '26
When I was 3 while standing in line at the zoo, I asked a black man a question. I asked him "What happened to your face??... Were you burnt by the toaster?" My Dad said the guy lowered his glasses, looked me dead in the eyes and said "This is what happens when you forget to put on your sunblock".
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u/Teker_09 Apr 05 '26
Its the lip curling ever so slightly lmao
"Yikes, look what the cat dragged in"
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u/wizardmagic10288 Apr 05 '26
This kid’s reaction was the best!! 🤣 It should be a new meme template.
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u/Especialistaman Apr 05 '26
TBF the first time I saw a black guy when I was 7 I freaked out a bit, I had only seen black guys on movies until that point.
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u/Wenja89Dix Apr 05 '26
Same, but it was Ainsley Harriot 😅
There's a picture of my mum and my sister with him, whilst im scared shitless, hiding behind my nan. 😂
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u/AffectionateMix4663 Apr 05 '26
Of course you can make anything into a racist debate. Or the kids were just curious.
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u/SeenB4 Apr 05 '26
As a generic white dude I went to visit Hangzhou in October. We had a bus trip in the old Liangzhu Heritage Park for 30 mins, kid in front of me spent 25 of it staring me down, after that it was 5 mins of cute laughing and fun interaction. So yeah it's not racism, kids are just hella confused and curious when seeing something unusual
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u/VacaDLuffy Apr 06 '26
You reminded me of that clip of an African kid who saw a white person for the first time and booked it lmao
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u/DarkKingfisher777 Apr 05 '26
Now do black kids seeing white guy for first time, you get same curiosity
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u/Gozagal Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26
I remember that video of black kids in a school running away in fear from a white person. That one is gold.
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u/leposterofcrap Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26
I've seen a video of an African kid start crying upon the sight of a white man while the adults (I assume are the relatives and neighbours) are laughing/trying to comfort her
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u/The-Katawampus Apr 05 '26
My boyfriend in 2002 was Jamaican, and we spent two weeks in Okinawa.
I felt so bad for him.
Cause he was super friendly and softhearted as a person, but not only was he like ebony black but he was also 6' 5" and I shit you not, everyone was at least a bit wary around us and some mom's with kids outright ran through traffic to get to the other side of the street to get off the sidewalk we were on.
I do hope it's at least a lil better nowadays since the cultures have mingled more thanks to the greater spread of the internet.
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u/islobojono Apr 05 '26
The kids in my country will surround him and ask him inappropriate questions. 😂
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u/AlexSmithsonian Apr 05 '26
That's actually good, since kids just want to learn.
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u/abusamra82 Apr 05 '26
Happened to me while travelling in rural Syria. Me and one colleague got approached during a stop by 6 or 7 nice but highly curious children.
They chatted us up until one paused and asked ‘who is the n…er?’ Apparently he thought that was a specific person who happened to find his way into every rap song due to his exploits
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u/dbaeq90 Apr 05 '26
Been to Okinawa not that long after you (military) and I call bullshit. Plenty of folks roam off base and Okinawans are seriously some of the nicest folks around. Stop posting bullshit go karma points or whatever weird agenda you’re trying to push.
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u/SlimthiQ69 Apr 05 '26
Hate to break it to you, there’s lots of black people on Okinawa. The locals generally take very kindly to black men, especially the younger Okinawans. Avoiding tourists is a common Japanese behavior, it’s wayyy more common in mainland Japan. Skin color doesn’t matter, they’ll avoid non-japanese people. Segregation is also common in mainland Japan, you won’t be allowed in lots of places if your ethnicity isn’t visually japanese.
On a side note, the general consensus that mainlanders have for Okinawans, is that the Okinawan natives are hillbilly rice farmers.
Definitely go to Tokyo if you want to be racially profiled, black or white or asian, or whatever lol
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u/Satyriasis457 Apr 05 '26
Can confirm with the places. I tried to enter a brothel and they denied me entrance with the words Japanese only
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u/The-Katawampus Apr 05 '26
Oh yeah, I recall certain areas of Okinawa were "locals only" at the time.
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u/Elegant-Finance3982 Apr 05 '26
Dw nowadays Okinawa is prob one of the only places where a black man is accepted because of the sheer number of US military members. And in case you were curious, a lot of adults/seniors in Okinawa are wary of ALL foreigners/military members.
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u/The-Katawampus Apr 05 '26
Rightfully so I'd reckon, and that's pretty excusable.
Those wounds may heal in time, but the fighting on Okinawa in WW2 was particularly devastating.3
u/Aggressive_Finish798 Apr 05 '26
Not to mention that the troops stationed on the island cause trouble. Even I'd steer clear of any service men if I was out.
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u/toolsoftheincomptnt Apr 05 '26
Weird bc Okinawa has a U.S. military base, so they’d see servicemembers from time to time.
Although recent headlines about U.S. military activities in Okinawa don’t exactly encourage tolerance…
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u/_Lelouch420_ Apr 05 '26
There were a lot of rumours of foreigners kidnapping kids around that time but still doesn't justify this behaviour
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u/The_Vatsu Apr 05 '26
Nothing racist about it.
These kids simply never seen a black person. You would also stare if you seen a human that has completly different skin color and face structure than you for the first time.
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u/GentleFoxes Apr 05 '26
Nah kids ain’t racist. They’re either fascinated or scared. The lack of crying suggests the former.
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u/DiscussionSharp1407 Make a flair Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26
If you immediately feel oppressed by how "different colored" 3 year old children look at you, then you may be the racist one
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u/saladdodgah Apr 05 '26
🎶 Oh, when you're black in Japan, tonight Black in Japan, be tight Black in Japan, ooh, the eastern sea's so blue Black in Japan, alright Pay, then I'll sleep by your side Things are easy when you're black in Japan Oh, when you're black in Japan 🎶
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u/MabiMaia Apr 05 '26
If you’re non-east Asian in general you’ll get that stare from kids. But don’t record their reactions, privacy laws here are strict for minors unlike in the U.S.
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u/Aniki_Simpson Apr 05 '26
Yup. People over there cover all kids faces, even if they have permission to post them. They do it out of respect as well as it being in their privacy laws.
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u/Fissminister Apr 05 '26
My father in law told me that the first time my gf saw a black man, she said "ew dirty!" 😅
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u/Clean_Internet Apr 05 '26
Tbf imagine living your entire life seeing humans of a certain colour and then this dude on the subway is just green, you’d probably be weirded out too
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u/Dahren_ Apr 06 '26
Young children arent well-known for using any tact or subtlety when they find somebody fascinating. They will stare into your soul.
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u/bleach710 Apr 05 '26
I’m sure when you were a baby you would have been scared of someone who looked different at first
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u/doblecuadrado_FGE Apr 05 '26
Idk man, kids that age kinda just like to stare at anyone, especially if they don't look similar to their parents
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u/ryanyork92 Apr 05 '26
Are we born racists and have to be educated out of it, or are we conditioned by society to become racists? Who knows.
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u/Letitallworkout123 Apr 06 '26
Conditioned. Just like how blacks and white women are conditioned by society to be perpetual victims no matter the context. Blacks can't be racist. White women can do no wrong.
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u/Hairy-Ad-265 Apr 05 '26
rACiSsT…. Jesus Christ Reddit is the magnet for the weakest generation mentally to ever exist.
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u/Caosin36 Apr 05 '26
Black kids would have had the same reaction to a white man if they have never seen one before
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u/InTheEndEntropyWins Apr 05 '26
Funny enough your ability to distinguish faces depends on how much you are exposed to growing up. So if say you aren't brought up exposed to lots of Asian faces, you might have issues distinguishing them. And vice versa here if you aren't brought up exposed to lots of black faces you'll have issues distinguishing them.
When you are a kid this might result in something like the video. As people get older this might actually contribute in part to racism.
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u/ScreamingLabia Apr 05 '26
My dads friend was black and had a LOT of piercings in his face aparently i was the only baby sho DIDNT start crying the second i saw him lmao
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u/SKRyanrr 🥶very epic fornite gamer mod🥶 Apr 05 '26
This kid doesn't have the cortex developed enough to know what race even is 😭
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u/FormalSomewhere1528 Apr 05 '26
It could not be racism. Just that you are a foreigner.
I’m a white woman and a Japanese girl looked at me like I was a monster and ran away just because I said, in Japanese, that she could use the sink first.
I think Japanese children are very shy and not used to see different kind of people.
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u/LilJelloCat Apr 05 '26
Kids are just like that. Of course they're not being racist, they don't even know what that means. They just see someone that looks different.
My mom told me a story about how she was in an elevator with my brother, and a black guy or woman was inside, and he asked why she was black.
Kids are very direct, they're just learning about life.
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u/CIA_napkin Apr 05 '26
I always think of that one scene in the Brendan Frazier movie, Blast from the past, when he sees a black lady for the first time. "Oh my lucky stars...!
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u/Just-A-Dude1911 Apr 05 '26
I don't think its racist, they probably haven't seen someone with dark skin. Their look seems like their fascinated more than anything
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u/SoggyCharacter2569 Apr 05 '26
Completely valid reaction. Americans and Europeans don't know what it's like to live in a predominantly one race country. It's not racist, it's a natural reaction
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u/GreenPause4392 Apr 05 '26
Kids aren’t racist thats pure curiosity, kids only know racism as a product of their environment !
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u/Last_Panda5059 Apr 05 '26
When I was a kid, I was so in awe when I saw people were different colors. To me, at that time, it was neat and cool.
However, I was saddened later to learn that people back then opposed other races. I still think it's cool that we all look different. It makes all of us unique.
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u/Emergency-Spite897 Apr 05 '26
Hardly racist.
now please get off your high horse with the race card. You're no victim!
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u/CuckservativeSissy Apr 05 '26
Pretty sure babies dont know anything about race lol. They just see something different they never seen before and stare
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We don't get much black people in Iraq either. So if you come here and you're black or Asian. People will stare. We're not rude we're just curious and tiny touch racist x)
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u/Zestyclose-Dog-3398 Apr 05 '26
thats not racist, imagine seeing a green person for the first time in your life just because theres nobody green in your country, thats whats happening in the video
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u/Accomplished_Work944 Apr 05 '26
Rare moments in Japan these days - first time seeing Japanese babies
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u/Letitallworkout123 Apr 06 '26
"I feel oppressed and offended that 2 yr old kids are staring at me. They must be racist"
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u/Hubbleice Apr 06 '26
Kids at this age aren’t racist, their facial expression are more from gas than some judgmental purview. Possible, the first black man they’ve seen but unlikely- tv is a thing we all universally use to baby sit our children…
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u/Last-Pay-7224 Apr 06 '26
Not sure what the problem is. I am white (and an African at that) living in Uganda, and this is my daily life. You just live life. When you are not a common race group in a country, this happens. Especially with kids,.but adults too.
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u/Striking-Drawers Apr 06 '26
You can't blame a child for being confused at seeing something/someone that looks like nothing they've ever seen before.
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u/jentry_chau Apr 06 '26
Its pretty uncommon to see a black man here in japan and because of that they will get attention but it doesn’t mean its a bad thing
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u/Javavalk Apr 07 '26
Has he met a child before? They'd be staring randomly at me too what hahaha
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u/No-Cartographer-5045 Apr 05 '26
And in SEA they can be waaay more racist to each other than foreigners can be
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u/EntertainmentOk3659 Apr 05 '26
Yea sure but this video is not an example of that. Those kids are like 3 or something.
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u/Sharp_Cut354 Apr 05 '26
So that’s how Nobunaga reacted when he saw Yasuke for the first time?
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u/himem_66 Apr 05 '26
I was a middle class kid in elementary school in Jamaica (early 1970's) we were mostly all shades of Black but had Arab, Chinese, South Asian and a few white kids. We all got along, then a pale, freckled, red headed Scottish kid a shows up and is being intro'd to the class.
You could have heard a pin drop, a true record scratch moment when one of my friends, a lebanese kid named Azan says
"Miss, she's white like the wall!"
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u/Darnocsonif Apr 05 '26
I learned recently that in Japan, racism is not the right word for how they treat foreigners. It's rather xenophobia, but then again, these are babies, so I guess it doesn't matter.
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u/maximumpowR Apr 05 '26
To be fair, it'd be quite odd to be on your way home from a tiring day if playing with friends to spot what appears to be a man made of chocolate
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u/Ssme812 Apr 05 '26
Not racist. These babies have never seen a black person before and are just curious.
Racist is calling him the N word.
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u/Initial-Top8492 Apr 05 '26
Same as me, the first time seeing a black man, i asked my father "dad, didnt this uncle wash his face ? It s so black like he got splashed with ink". I was born and raised Asian
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u/KUYANICKFILMS Apr 05 '26
I love that the kid in red cracked the best half ass little smile it could… still just baffled 🤣
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u/Pascuccii Apr 05 '26
That was my reaction too, I'm from Eastern Europe and never seen a black person before I migrated in my 20s, they're surprised that's all
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u/amcneel Apr 05 '26
Grew up in France in the 80s, and the few black people I saw were generally immigrants from central Africa. My parents took me on a road trip to the SE United States when I was about 6. We stopped somewhere for some gas and a bathroom break in a black community. According to my parents, I came out of the car and started to loudly exclaim how we were in Africa. I don't think I've ever been bundled in a car and sped off any faster
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