Current Events > as a kid i thought black people have to get married to black people >_>

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that's how it always seemed to work in tv shows

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how old are you?, ever see the jeffersons?

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R1masher posted...

how old are you?

26

R1masher posted...

ever see the jeffersons?

the what

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there was only one black kid in my elementary school and I legitimately had no idea he was black til an adult brought it up

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Ayy lmao

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Choco, did you know black people can even marry white people?

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As a kid, I always thought that mothers would do the cleaning & cooking.
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CreepySmile posted...

Choco, did you know black people can even marry white people?

Even better is that black people can fuck married white people

People never seem to bring up that little example of reverse racism

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Blighboy posted...

Even better is that black people can fuck married white people

Wow just like my Japanese anime!

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And youre black?

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And then TC married that man
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CreepySmile posted...

Choco, did you know black people can even marry white people?

scandalous

R1masher posted...

And youre black?

what? did somebody say i'm black lmao

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Blighboy posted...

Even better is that black people can fuck married white people

People never seem to bring up that little example of reverse racism

Uh, how is that racism?

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Choco posted...

the what

The Jeffersons, Norman Lear's crowning achievement.

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I never thought any of this And I'm just a few years older but I watched all the older tv shows growing up

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mustachedmystic posted...

The Jeffersons, Norman Lear's crowning achievement.

Sandford and Son though.

Actually those two or All in the Family, One Day at a Time, Good Times or even Maude could be cause for debate. Dude had a legendary run.

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i mean, once upon a time they pretty much did, either because of laws or the social stigma against interracial couples. You see remnants of it today when Conservatives cry about a mixed couple in a commercial.

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Kastrada posted...

Sandford and Son though.

Actually those two or All in the Family, One Day at a Time, Good Times or even Maude could be cause for debate. Dude had a legendary run.

Not gonna argue the merits of any of those shows, but the Jeffersons is my favorite of his. I shoulda put a imho in my last post.

Edit: Maude was great, I loved how she was constantly tripping over herself to show how liberal she was. Like the time didn't want to hire a woman to be her houskeeper because she was white, but then changed her mind when she found out that she was from Puerto Rico.

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VipaGTS posted...

i mean, once upon a time they pretty much did, either because of laws or the social stigma against interracial couples. You see remnants of it today when Conservatives cry about a mixed couple in a commercial.

Yeah I remember you pitching a fit when that Cherrio's commercial came out with the black dad and white mom.

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Look, mixed kids don't eat cheerios. they just don't.

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Colorahdo posted...

there was only one black kid in my elementary school and I legitimately had no idea he was black til an adult brought it up

There were two in my grade and they were identical twin brothers.

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I thought white people was god using white paint, black people was god using black paint, so on and so forth. Some old dude told me that when i asked him why people looked different.


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If it makes you feel any better, I'm older and also felt it was how it had to be. Gotta love growing up with information obscured or altered.

I mostly blame my older relatives flipping out when a neighbor was a black man and white woman. They were so hush hush about it you literally thought they were over there sacrificing goats and all sorts of bad.... turns out it was just an interracial couple in the 90's. Also encountered other instances of 'oh no it's bad/wrong' but seeing as they lived through those days I can somewhat understand their view.

Even to this day if there's a commercial or ad with mixed couple, they vocally go off about it.

mustachedmystic posted...

Not gonna argue the merits of any of those shows, but the Jeffersons is my favorite of his. I shoulda put a imho in my last post.

Edit: Maude was great, I loved how she was constantly tripping over herself to show how liberal she was. Like the time didn't want to hire a woman to be her houskeeper because she was white, but then changed her mind when she found out that she was from Puerto Rico.

I mean it's not bad to say Jeffersons over Sanford and Son. Prime Sherman Hemsley and Prime Red Foxx. It's basically a coin flip.

Also the remake of One Day at a Time on Netflix is fantastic. It's very late 90's/early '00s sitcomy but does it well. Rita Moreno is phenomenal. I mean she's great in whatever she does but especially in this.

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remember disney's weekenders?
there's one episode where they all celebrate different december holidays - lor celebrates christmas, tish celebrates hanukkah, tino celebrates the winter solstice (some explanation and context is given), and carver celebrates kwanzaa.
and i had no idea what kwanzaa is and ended up assuming it must be the muslim equivalent to christmas and hanukkah >_>

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Purple_Cheetah posted...

If it makes you feel any better, I'm older and also felt it was how it had to be. Gotta love growing up with information obscured or altered.

I mostly blame my older relatives flipping out when a neighbor was a black man and white woman. They were so hush hush about it you literally thought they were over there sacrificing goats and all sorts of bad.... turns out it was just an interracial couple in the 90's. Also encountered other instances of 'oh no it's bad/wrong' but seeing as they lived through those days I can somewhat understand their view.

Even to this day if there's a commercial or ad with mixed couple, they vocally go off about it.

yikes

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And usually, it's a Black woman with a White guy. Especially in Black shows, I've noticed.

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Choco posted...

yikes

I've heard that in korea, women are socially shunned if they date men outside of their race.

I know that in the states, people are less upset if they see a white man with a black woman, as opposed to white woman with a black man. Black men don't seem to like it when black women date outside of race, either.

Maybe It's a male issue lol

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Oh right, I should have probably clarified it, but forgot. I kinda clued in and figured out there was nothing wrong with it while at a young age. I only thought it had to be because of the surrounding relatives/people and for a bit thought they were even a different species and thus incompatible.

And yeah, if there's a commercial with a mixed couple then they're apparently pushing some sort of secret agenda... idk what that's about.

Honorable mention goes to that liquid plumber ad with a plumber's crack. They all grouped up and said it was them sexualising tv.

Dyinglegacy posted...

I've heard that in korea, women are socially shunned if they date men outside of their race.

It's getting better apparently. I've had coworkers recently say how they date men outside their race and the families don't care too much. It's if marriage or pregnancies become an issue where the families get upset.

Fucked up but it's better than getting spit on and assaulted in public like I've heard happening.

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Kastrada posted...

It's getting better apparently. I've had coworkers recently say how they date men outside their race and the families don't care too much. It's if marriage or pregnancies become an issue where the families get upset.

Fucked up but it's better than getting spit on and assaulted in public like I've heard happening.

I still bet there's a significant difference in reactions between a Korean woman dating/marrying a Black guy vs. the same woman dating/marrying a White guy.

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When I was super young, I thought all black people were related because it was very common for black kids in my kindergarten class to say they were the cousin of some other kid in the lunch room.

This probably had way more to do with me going to school in the middle of nowhere than it did race.

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pegusus123456 posted...

When I was super young, I thought all black people were related because it was very common for black kids in my kindergarten class to say they were the cousin of some other kid in the lunch room.

This probably had way more to do with me going to school in the middle of nowhere than it did race.

lmao

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i used to think all humans are related because we all come from adam and eve. >___>

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Solar_Crimson posted...

I still bet there's a significant difference in reactions between a Korean woman dating/marrying a Black guy vs. the same woman dating/marrying a White guy.

I think it depends on location honestly. Where I am at people don't care. We have a good amount of inter-cultural families so it kinda makes the whole dating non-Koreans seem like less of a big deal. I think here people just tend to mind their own business too.

But here all the white people are Eastern European labor workers who don't make a lot so if a black guy came to the area for work, I think most people would assume he is specialized and makes a lot more money. So yeah a Korean girl dating a black guy would probably be better looked at by her family. >_>


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Kastrada posted...

It's getting better apparently. I've had coworkers recently say how they date men outside their race and the families don't care too much. It's if marriage or pregnancies become an issue where the families get upset.

Fucked up but it's better than getting spit on and assaulted in public like I've heard happening.

Here in Koreatown, it used to be that you only saw Koreans dating Koreans. Parents were adamant about keeping the family within the Korean churches, and having Korean kids. This was about 15 years back from now. In about 2015 I noticed just a huge boom of Korean/Mexican and Korean/White families.

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Choco posted...

i had no idea what kwanzaa is and ended up assuming it must be the muslim equivalent to christmas and hanukkah >_>

Ha!

What has the Bavarian education system done to you?

:P
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It's funny but I think Korean grandmas are the most progressive about this. I have friends with mixed race children and the old women go fucking nuts over how unique and cute they look.

Source: My white friend married to a Korean dude who was stopped for 30 minutes while a horde of K-grannies paparazzi'd her kids.

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Honestly, I don't even remember having any thoughts on the one black kid in my grade back in elementary school other than having no clue how to pronounce his last name.
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I is smart posted...

Honestly, I don't even remember having any thoughts on the one black kid in my grade back in elementary school other than having no clue how to pronounce his last name.

That wouldn't happen to be me, would it? >_>
My last name was rather infamous at school because it's long and people have a hard time pronouncing it.

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Nah, it was only like 7 letters but I heard like 4 or 5 different pronunciations from teachers over the years lol. Course they weren't near as bad as the one lady who pronounced my friend's last name as Alkaseltzer. His name was Altizer (All-ties-ur... or maybe it was Al, been a decade or two), where the fuck did she see the K or the S?
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Black peoples can even have kids with Asian people. Wow.

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