Current Events > Black posters, do you cringe when white people tell you you look like someone?

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I usually do. I can guarantee when they say that I look like some other black guy they know, I don't look anything like that person.

Usually the only thing we have in common is skin colour

I get told I look like a leprechaun a lot ;_;

im an asian dude but i get this a lot too

and yeah its kinda dumb

"You look just like my friend!"
"You look like this guy i go to my gym with!"

no i dont
he's just asian too and you have a racial bias.
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literally every race does this
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andel posted...

literally every race does this

Every race has difficulty telling people from a separate race apart yes. But best believe white people bring this shit up the most. Likely with people they don't even know.
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Makeveli_lives posted...

andel posted...

literally every race does this

Every race has difficulty telling people from a separate race apart yes. But best believe white people bring this shit up the most. Likely with people they don't even know.

I don't.
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andel posted...

literally every race does this

Not really

In America. White is mainstream. Thus other races are more likely to recognize white faces than whites are to recognize other faces

I don't cringe. I'm typically unfazed by such comments.
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gna647 posted...

im an asian dude but i get this a lot too

and yeah its kinda dumb

"You look just like my friend!"
"You look like this guy i go to my gym with!"

no i dont
he's just asian too and you have a racial bias.

Man. I feel you bro. I hate that shit

I should've made the topic tit'll more inclusive because I know other races go through this too

ShinigamiSoul posted...

I don't

This ain't about you. Just because you may not do it doesn't mean it doesn't happen
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I get it from black people as much as I get it from white people

If anything I can't tell some white people apart, especially on campus because everyone kind of dresses the same and has the same $5 haircut
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Im Hispanic. Looks favor my white side and when people tell me I look like someone I never see it. I hate being compared to anyone in general though. Fuck you for trying to devalue my uniqueness >_>. If you're gonna compare me atleast have the decency to do it behind my back.
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One time at a party I was pretty drunk, and this guy who looked exactly like Idris Elba walked in. I wanted to tell him but I didn't want to bother or offend him. I started getting drunk and was fighting the urge to tell him like I was fighting the urge to shoot out explosive diarrhea. Finally I walked up to him and started to tell him and he was like, "Hey who invited Jonah Hill?!" and fucking everyone looked at me and starting laughing. Then I told him he looked like Idris Elba and he raised his eyebrows and smirked and said, "Trust me, I know."
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there's all sorts of data out there showing that people of one race think people of a different race looks the same.

You just hear about white people doing it most in America because there are lots of white people.
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Eh, people always tell me I look like some random black person. But the majority of us have the same color hair and eyes. Also, if you don't associate with a lot of people of a certain kind, they can all look similar. So, eh. Whatever.
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tbh, I never got it.

either I: don't look like anyone, or don't seem approachable.
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andel posted...

literally every race does this

Im white, and Ive had (white) people tell me I look like certain white people...

People have similar traits that make them similar...
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Are you trying to suggest only white people do this?
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I am hispanic and I do this with everyone including a fuck ton of white people
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been told I look like Esai Morales

edit: from back in his La Bamba days
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Makeveli_lives posted...

andel posted...

literally every race does this

Every race has difficulty telling people from a separate race apart yes. But best believe white people bring this shit up the most. Likely with people they don't even know.

Probably because white people are the majority here, therefore it's whites saying it the most. I imagine I'd be different if another race was the majority.
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#notallwhites

Black people always like to tell me I look like any random white celebrity that looks nothing like me.
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TC what is your main account?
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Na I don't really cringe. It's whatever​
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I used to get told I looked like one of my fellow classmates all the time (probably because we both had lazy eyes)
this despite him wearing dreads and me not, and being about 4 inches taller and being about a good 60 pounds heavier
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meingott posted...

TC what is your main account?

This one

I don't need to hide when no one knows me anyways

Jesus Christ at butthurt white people missing the point and finding some way to make this topic about them
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DuffBeer posted...

Then I told him he looked like Idris Elba and he raised his eyebrows and smirked and said, "Trust me, I know."

Translation : "I slay insane amounts of pussy".
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Verdekal posted...

Black people always like to tell me I look like any random white celebrity that looks nothing like me.

If black people really do this to you then they suck too

DiesMortis posted...

Jesus Christ at butthurt white people missing the point and finding some way to make this topic about them

Or you're missing the point that everyone is just bringing to the light that a topic made disguised as a race issue isn't a race issue at all.
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mexicans keep coming up to me speaking spanish
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I don't fucking look like Nick Cannon.
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Lost_All_Senses posted...

DiesMortis posted...

Jesus Christ at butthurt white people missing the point and finding some way to make this topic about them

Or you're missing the point that everyone is just bringing to the light that a topic made disguised as a race issue isn't a race issue at all.

But people claim other races look the same

Haldol posted...

Lost_All_Senses posted...

DiesMortis posted...

Jesus Christ at butthurt white people missing the point and finding some way to make this topic about them

Or you're missing the point that everyone is just bringing to the light that a topic made disguised as a race issue isn't a race issue at all.

But people claim other races look the same

Yeah. Regardless of race though. It has to do with whatever races your more accustom to. It has nothing to do with a specific race. If a white guy grew up in China he'd probably think all Caucasians look way more similar than asians. And vice versa
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Taharqa_ posted...

I don't fucking look like Nick Cannon.

A girl that I sat next to in French class said I looked like Nick Cannon. If I knew about the chick Nick ran through back then I wouldn't have felt so offended. That girl had some big ass titties too...
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nevermind - when I was in high school, an Asian girl told me I looked like Ray J, and her friend said Will Smith.

I never heard anything from a white person, though.
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Haldol posted...

meingott posted...

TC what is your main account?

This one

I don't need to hide when no one knows me anyways

what was your previous main?
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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Haldol posted...

Lost_All_Senses posted...

DiesMortis posted...

Jesus Christ at butthurt white people missing the point and finding some way to make this topic about them

Or you're missing the point that everyone is just bringing to the light that a topic made disguised as a race issue isn't a race issue at all.

But people claim other races look the same

Yeah. Regardless of race though. It has to do with whatever races your more accustom to. It has nothing to do with a specific race. If a white guy grew up in China he'd probably think all Caucasians look way more similar than asians. And vice versa

This why said America

I get pissed as a white guy when people say I look like Phillip Seymour Hoffman, so I never tell anyone who they look like anymore, no matter the race.
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I used to.
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Dathrowed1 posted...

I used to.

Not any more?

Makeveli_lives posted...

andel posted...

literally every race does this

Every race has difficulty telling people from a separate race apart yes. But best believe white people bring this shit up the most. Likely with people they don't even know.

Gee I wonder why that is. We only live in a 70% white country.
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KillerSlaw posted...

I get pissed as a white guy when people say I look like Phillip Seymour Hoffman, so I never tell anyone who they look like anymore, no matter the race.

does this happen often?
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Haldol posted...

Dathrowed1 posted...

I used to.

Not any more?

I now simply anticipate that someone will say I look like Cuba Gooding Jr. No reason to cringe
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These people on ramdon said was I Etika after I uploaded this pic.
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psvitantifail posted...

These people on ramdon said was I Etika after I uploaded this pic.

Ayy, I love kid and play

Keith_Valentine posted...

psvitantifail posted...

These people on ramdon said was I Etika after I uploaded this pic.

Ayy, I love kid and play

*sigh*
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Skywalker82 posted...

Taharqa_ posted...

I don't fucking look like Nick Cannon.

A girl that I sat next to in French class said I looked like Nick Cannon. If I knew about the chick Nick ran through back then I wouldn't have felt so offended. That girl had some big ass titties too...

Mariah Carey?
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