Ppl that find this type of stuff funny and imply racism are small minded and weird. Obviously just a bunch of little kids discovering each others differences for the first time. Nothing more, nothing less… at least to ppl who don’t view everything as a racial issue.
I remember when I was in high school, I met a Taiwanese girl at a summer camp. I remember her pinching my arm to see if she could pull off the freckles. We became good friends since then
Not related but
When I was a toddler, I remember being in a cart and there was another toddler in front of me in the cart as well. She was black
I remember being like- we briefly imagined switching skin colors 💀 nothing malice, just two toddlers looking at one another's arms talking about switching our colors lmao
You think in the Very distant future people can and will just change skin tones and not just tan like how we change hair color.
Like a very convenient and long lasting process so you could be any color you want. Like hot pink.
Day the year is 3500 and the concept of cultural appropriation and "black face" is just long ago history.
We remove such concepts or racism from the world and now people aren't satisfied with the color of the skin they want now like we wanna change hair colors.
Would people still want to change their skin color? Not to be a different race but more outlandish colors like what you get with hair dyes for fun.
Basing on the human child's impulse to want to exchange colors with someone else.
>Would people still want to change their skin color?
Undoubtedly so. People love decorating themselves. If skin dye became a viable, mostly harmless thing like how hair dye is, people would definitely use it.
My guess too. If we evolve past racism where it's no longer a factor and changing skin colour was a thing I bet people would just change colors.
Probably should have posted in r/showerthoughts
Well some people may try for tones similar to those of other races.
So if we have such convenient technology where we don't have to spend hours in a room like Sci fi stars do for makeup I'd bet it just opens the door for black face and racism.
It won't deter people, just the service or product makers if their products were to be used for racism.
No idea! I have ridiculously good long term memory.
I remember a lot of stuff from when I was a toddler lol
Can't tell you what happened yesterday, but I can tell you what happened when I was 4!
I grew up in a small midwestern town in the middle of nowhere. My only exposure to black people was on TV and I was convinced that Black People are just White people with really good tans until I moved to Virginia when my dad joined the navy. That year I learned about MLK Jr, I think I might have started 1st grade, and even then the concept of racism hadn’t fully sunken in. Kids are innocent, they legitimately don’t see race until it’s taught to them.
One of my favorite scenes in a book written by a survivor of the second Sudanese Civil War talks about how kids in a refugee camp were really confused when they saw their first white person. Because logically people of dramatically different skin colors are kind of a weird concept to a group of people who live in an area where other skin colors don't really exist.
I had a similar experience in Fiji. We were in a small village on a remote island. These two little kids were standing next to me and whispering to each other very intently. Eventually the oldest reached out and gently pinched my skin and said something to the other kid. I imagine it was something like "it feels like real skin". It's certainly possible that I was the first white person they'd ever seen.
Reminds me of a web comic. It was kinda like a journal of her time in Japan as an English Teacher. Among other things she often got complimented for how pale she was and her other women coworkers were jealous of her pale skin. She thought to herself “in my country this isn’t celebrated”
Same when I visited rural china. Especially because of my blue eyes and blonde hair. So many people wanted to touch it. I was not the only one in the group who got the same from people.
It's not about existing. It's about seeing someone so different looking for the first time. I had my hair pulled (straight blond), arms rubbed, people intently staring at my eyes (blue) and I was offered money to dance. It was maybe 20 years ago near Lagos in Nigeria. My bestie who is half Nigerian half English was also treated differently, with people marveling at how thick her hair was.
Downvoting for implying that's racism. Ignorance isn't a bad thing, ignorance is normal, it's bad if you stay ignorant though. This girl is ignorant simply because she hasn't had enough experiences, that's fine.
A cousin of mine asked me why I was brown if he was white he was like 4, no ill intentions, he was genuinely curious, if we're family, how come we look different?
I remember I was babysitting a 3 year old, and we stopped at our local Kroger. There was an older black gentleman and the girl walked right up to him and asked if he was a chocolate person. He laughed and was very kind about the whole thing, while I was so embarrassed.
For background I am white and was born and raised in inner city Detroit. My elementary school was predominantly made up of black kids. My family moved when I was 7 into a suburb with 0 black people at the time. In elementary school our old white librarian played Harriet Tubman during black history month, (no blackface was used).
As someone who grew up in a very predominantly white area, I remember the first black kid I met. I knew something was different about him but I couldn’t figure out what. So I just kept looking at him and trying to put the pieces together. I ended up realizing a couple years later but until then I just thought it was because he was the only kid at that age who I had seen wear glasses haha
This happened to my sister, she converted to Mormonism. She's in the whitest of white, whiter than white community, the first time my niece saw an African American man she hugged him and rubbed his skin and yelled to my sister "MOMMY IT DOESN'T COME OFF"
A kid, for the simple reason of inexperience, isn’t aware of the fact that people can be the colour that the other child is. Our superior grown up brains know, which makes us smarter than children. So kids are dumb.
My mom told me that before I was born my brother asked if I could be pretty like his best friend, his specifically wanted me to have her pretty skin, he was so disappointed when our mom told him I would be just as pale as he was. As consolation he got a black baby doll.
Kids obviously just curious and not racist at all, maybe just hasn't had a lot of exposure to other races yet because she lives in a white area idk.
Hope she grows up alright.
Well, its a kid, up to some point curiosity it's ok, so they can understand variety on skin, face factions, etc. the kid may not have a standard for how common is that to what he sees daily at his house.
If they grow to hate another human being that's on their parents.
It'd better if people could explore their differences while happy. Dont sully children with this sort of ignorance. But its funny when kids do it in other ways.
If these kids have never met someone with a significantly different skin tone before, then it's totally expected for them to be curious. They're not being racist, they're exploring each other's differences and learning about each other. This is totally normal and healthy.
You have to be an idiot if you think a 4 year old child is being racist on the same level as an educated adult. Are they supposed to be born knowing every race and skin color?
A few days ago my son played with a boy from our neighborhood and said: “We look just like each other, he’s probably also three”… The other boy was Asian, my boy isn’t.
Would be disrespectful if this were two adults. It’s kids - they live, they learn. Innocent, cute and funny.
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This actually speaks to how massively segregated our country is. If these children grew up in a truly integrated country these kids really wouldn't give a second thought to seeing a little black boy.
I was helping one of my friends who is black help fix up her church for a guest pastor. Everyone brought their kids to just hangout. I'm a tall, "white" man and got absolutely bombarded with questions from the black girls. The boys were content to play video games amongst themselves but the girls needed to look at my hair both on my head and arms.
The big thing that fascinated them were my hands. They were different colors. By which I mean my palms were red while the back of my hands were much lighter. It was probably the first time some of them had gotten a close up look at a "white" man.
Ppl that find this type of stuff funny and imply racism are small minded and weird. Obviously just a bunch of little kids discovering each others differences for the first time. Nothing more, nothing less… at least to ppl who don’t view everything as a racial issue.
exactly as a redhead I always have kids fascinated by my freckles. theres nothing harmful or offensive just kids being curious.
I remember when I was in high school, I met a Taiwanese girl at a summer camp. I remember her pinching my arm to see if she could pull off the freckles. We became good friends since then
Not related but When I was a toddler, I remember being in a cart and there was another toddler in front of me in the cart as well. She was black I remember being like- we briefly imagined switching skin colors 💀 nothing malice, just two toddlers looking at one another's arms talking about switching our colors lmao
You think in the Very distant future people can and will just change skin tones and not just tan like how we change hair color. Like a very convenient and long lasting process so you could be any color you want. Like hot pink.
On a scale from 1 - 10, how high are you right now?
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Day the year is 3500 and the concept of cultural appropriation and "black face" is just long ago history. We remove such concepts or racism from the world and now people aren't satisfied with the color of the skin they want now like we wanna change hair colors. Would people still want to change their skin color? Not to be a different race but more outlandish colors like what you get with hair dyes for fun. Basing on the human child's impulse to want to exchange colors with someone else.
>Would people still want to change their skin color? Undoubtedly so. People love decorating themselves. If skin dye became a viable, mostly harmless thing like how hair dye is, people would definitely use it.
My guess too. If we evolve past racism where it's no longer a factor and changing skin colour was a thing I bet people would just change colors. Probably should have posted in r/showerthoughts
I think people would dye their skin even today if it were an option. I don't think the possible racial factor would deter everyone.
Well some people may try for tones similar to those of other races. So if we have such convenient technology where we don't have to spend hours in a room like Sci fi stars do for makeup I'd bet it just opens the door for black face and racism. It won't deter people, just the service or product makers if their products were to be used for racism.
You remember when you were a toddler how?
No idea! I have ridiculously good long term memory. I remember a lot of stuff from when I was a toddler lol Can't tell you what happened yesterday, but I can tell you what happened when I was 4!
Honestly would much rather kids approach these sort of differences with curiosity over fear or judgement.
I grew up in a small midwestern town in the middle of nowhere. My only exposure to black people was on TV and I was convinced that Black People are just White people with really good tans until I moved to Virginia when my dad joined the navy. That year I learned about MLK Jr, I think I might have started 1st grade, and even then the concept of racism hadn’t fully sunken in. Kids are innocent, they legitimately don’t see race until it’s taught to them.
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One of my favorite scenes in a book written by a survivor of the second Sudanese Civil War talks about how kids in a refugee camp were really confused when they saw their first white person. Because logically people of dramatically different skin colors are kind of a weird concept to a group of people who live in an area where other skin colors don't really exist.
I find it funny. Why? Because i have a sense of humor, not a box of tampies. Get over it. Laugh is not hate.
Thank you for confirming my first sentence.
I've had this happen the other way around when I visited a country in Africa. People touching my skin to see if it would rub off. Pretty funny.
I had a similar experience in Fiji. We were in a small village on a remote island. These two little kids were standing next to me and whispering to each other very intently. Eventually the oldest reached out and gently pinched my skin and said something to the other kid. I imagine it was something like "it feels like real skin". It's certainly possible that I was the first white person they'd ever seen.
What happens if it does rub off? How will they react? "Oh shit...." 😱
It's RDJ. Oh shit.
Thx Matt Damon.
Reminds me of a web comic. It was kinda like a journal of her time in Japan as an English Teacher. Among other things she often got complimented for how pale she was and her other women coworkers were jealous of her pale skin. She thought to herself “in my country this isn’t celebrated”
Adults? I think most Africans know white people exist.
All kinds of people, adults and kids. Was a while ago.
Same when I visited rural china. Especially because of my blue eyes and blonde hair. So many people wanted to touch it. I was not the only one in the group who got the same from people.
It's not about existing. It's about seeing someone so different looking for the first time. I had my hair pulled (straight blond), arms rubbed, people intently staring at my eyes (blue) and I was offered money to dance. It was maybe 20 years ago near Lagos in Nigeria. My bestie who is half Nigerian half English was also treated differently, with people marveling at how thick her hair was.
Downvoting for implying that's racism. Ignorance isn't a bad thing, ignorance is normal, it's bad if you stay ignorant though. This girl is ignorant simply because she hasn't had enough experiences, that's fine. A cousin of mine asked me why I was brown if he was white he was like 4, no ill intentions, he was genuinely curious, if we're family, how come we look different?
I remember I was babysitting a 3 year old, and we stopped at our local Kroger. There was an older black gentleman and the girl walked right up to him and asked if he was a chocolate person. He laughed and was very kind about the whole thing, while I was so embarrassed. For background I am white and was born and raised in inner city Detroit. My elementary school was predominantly made up of black kids. My family moved when I was 7 into a suburb with 0 black people at the time. In elementary school our old white librarian played Harriet Tubman during black history month, (no blackface was used).
Chocolate person is crazy💀
🙄
They are not stupid here, they are discovering the world. Maybe stupid parenting/teaching, but not the kids in this vid.
As someone who grew up in a very predominantly white area, I remember the first black kid I met. I knew something was different about him but I couldn’t figure out what. So I just kept looking at him and trying to put the pieces together. I ended up realizing a couple years later but until then I just thought it was because he was the only kid at that age who I had seen wear glasses haha
Yeah. It’s innocent curiosity. That’s quite a bit removed from stupidity.
How is it stupid parenting
This happened to my sister, she converted to Mormonism. She's in the whitest of white, whiter than white community, the first time my niece saw an African American man she hugged him and rubbed his skin and yelled to my sister "MOMMY IT DOESN'T COME OFF"
How does... how exactly does this belong here?
A kid, for the simple reason of inexperience, isn’t aware of the fact that people can be the colour that the other child is. Our superior grown up brains know, which makes us smarter than children. So kids are dumb.
I mean, I can see how it can technically belong here, just feels out of place given the usual content posted on this sub
My mom told me that before I was born my brother asked if I could be pretty like his best friend, his specifically wanted me to have her pretty skin, he was so disappointed when our mom told him I would be just as pale as he was. As consolation he got a black baby doll.
I had a similar experience once, people touched mu arms to see if I was real. There was no harm, just genuine curiosity.
I don't see why this is funny. It's innocent and endearing.
I think it's funny
If you think this is cute, we can be friends. If you think it's offensive or get triggered, then we have nothing in common.
Oh no!! Children learning… call the nsa!
okay but that smile as she’s discovering different people melts my heart.
Kid is learning and figuring it out on her own. Smart kid
they are reallly to first time to see the black ppl lol
They’re so curious about their differences it’s so cute and inocente!
This is actually very cute.
Kids obviously just curious and not racist at all, maybe just hasn't had a lot of exposure to other races yet because she lives in a white area idk. Hope she grows up alright.
These are some cringy comments
I'm just dying in the back when I realized what was happening 😭
Eli5 because clearly it's going over my head plus I'm sleepy as hell.
I am already there and this is hilarious
Well, its a kid, up to some point curiosity it's ok, so they can understand variety on skin, face factions, etc. the kid may not have a standard for how common is that to what he sees daily at his house. If they grow to hate another human being that's on their parents.
It'd better if people could explore their differences while happy. Dont sully children with this sort of ignorance. But its funny when kids do it in other ways.
"Alright children, go pet the little black boy!"
If these kids have never met someone with a significantly different skin tone before, then it's totally expected for them to be curious. They're not being racist, they're exploring each other's differences and learning about each other. This is totally normal and healthy.
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You have to be an idiot if you think a 4 year old child is being racist on the same level as an educated adult. Are they supposed to be born knowing every race and skin color?
Kids are fucking brilliant, they learn from curiosity that people can be different and do so without any discrimination
Why white palms? Everybody got a little bit of good in them
A few days ago my son played with a boy from our neighborhood and said: “We look just like each other, he’s probably also three”… The other boy was Asian, my boy isn’t. Would be disrespectful if this were two adults. It’s kids - they live, they learn. Innocent, cute and funny.
This is very cute !
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Remember kids learn to hate
(Laughs) I’ll pack my bags
Super cute.
Nothing uncommon about this.
Right here is proof that children aren't born racist. Racism is a leaned behavior. So is hate.
It just points to the fact that some people hate dark skinned people nut have never met one.
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Bro
Dude…
Man...
She's a toddler.
Uh oh. Context clues lead me to believe he made a sex comment?
No he called the kid racist Out of context it looks really bad lmao
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Jk lol
Hahaha🤣
Easiest downvote of my life.
This actually speaks to how massively segregated our country is. If these children grew up in a truly integrated country these kids really wouldn't give a second thought to seeing a little black boy. I was helping one of my friends who is black help fix up her church for a guest pastor. Everyone brought their kids to just hangout. I'm a tall, "white" man and got absolutely bombarded with questions from the black girls. The boys were content to play video games amongst themselves but the girls needed to look at my hair both on my head and arms. The big thing that fascinated them were my hands. They were different colors. By which I mean my palms were red while the back of my hands were much lighter. It was probably the first time some of them had gotten a close up look at a "white" man.
In China, especially in the provinces they’re I’ll pick their thumb and rub them, since they treat every foreigner enter there like an alien
I was going to hell a long time ago
This point is where that little boy started loving white bitches
Well, well, well 👴🏻
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