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I’ve been in the situation in the bottom panel. Yes, it does happen.
typical humans
Wrong, they’re just staring at the little girl because she’s wearing Croks.
my brother had white-blonde curly hair, and we lived in an all black street. we were literally stopped on the sidewalk for people to touch his hair, lol
Except the second one is a joke, most of them arn’t even actually looking at her. I would say somehting about the first once being old and one hopes tourists were better now, but nope. We were on a bus tour in Mexico a couple years ago (we went for the piramids). Part of it was to stop at a “genuine Mayan farm”. I didn’t get off the bus. One woman grabed one of the toddlers, wandered around looking for her companion, got her picture taken with the child, then set her back down outside the yard next to the bus and walked away. It was the equivelent of tossing an empty coffe cup over her shoulder. Didn’t return her to her mom, didn’t make sure she was even somewhere safe. Just walked away after getting her picture with the quaint little native child.
That is truely horrible…
I grew up in a black neighborhood and I am really white with straight red hair. People touched my hair and stopped my mom on the street at least once a week to comment on my hair. Weird. I always hear black people talking about white people wanting to touch their hair but they were petting mine all the time. Goes both ways.
It’s a natural curiosity I think.
Both those photos are really unsettling.
My thoughts exactly.
Not really. I find the top one disturbing because they’re clearly educated adults but the bottom panel shows children. I live in a mainly white country that only really started to get immigrants in the last 20 yrs or so. I remember the 1st time I saw a black person aside from on TV; I grabbed my mum, pointed and shouted “WHERE DID THE BROWN LADY COME FROM?!” in amazement.
The top one makes me angry. “Look, honey, at the skinny little Negro children! Let’s take a picture of them, they’re like quaint little monkeys!”
I hate white-bread old people.
The first photo looks like a still from a movie. Look at their clothes and those cameras…they look straight out of the sixties.
All humans are like quaint monkeys.
You must like whole-wheat-bread old people then?
I think the bottom one is a local girl that happens to be albino…
No, She’s clearly blonde and her skin has too much colour.
I’ve been in the bottom situation when I grew up as a very light blonde girl with blue eyes in North Africa. People used to pinch my cheeks all the time…
“Are those the kinds of shoes they wear in other countries? I’d rather stay barefoot than wear something like that.”
In Turkey when I was a little girl so many people passing touched my blonde hair and one lady even gave me a headband, very strange
At least you got a present out of it XD When I was little and I went to Turkey they just would pick me up out of my pram
My mam very nearly punched them
I don’t blame her. I’ve had my daughter pulled out of my arms before… people seem to think babies are public property. It gets on my nerves.
Ok, that would be serious culture shock for me.
NO WAY! You mean to say that other races have the capacity for curiosity and wonder the same way that white people do? Never would have guessed
I took my blond, blue-eyed son to Kenya and even the grocery store clerks wanted to hold him.
This actually reminds me of when I was a kid and my dad told me a story about when he was younger. This is just how I remember it:
He was an Air Force brat, so he moved around a lot, and once his father was stationed in Japan. He, his sisters, his baby brother, and his mother were heading to the market when this woman became fascinated in my uncle, because he was blonde. It was the 60s and people were pretty chill back then apparently because my mom-mom let her hold my uncle and he ended up being passed around to several people before getting back to mom-mom. Apparently none of them had ever seen a blond in-person before.
My sister-in-law and her daughter are both blond haired down to their butt and around 5’5. They went to Egypt 4 years ago and got lost in Ciro, She has pic of this happening to them. No one tried anything but everyone wanted to see them and touch their hair and if there was a camera it got used.
Both ways? But the second one has Indians, not black people… darn stereotyping Memebasers, not every brown is the same!
This is Failbog, not Memebase
Just wanted to say “both” is a little inaccurate. The folks in the bottom picture aren’t African.
I think you missed the point.
I understood it. I was just saying that in this situation, “both” would imply two ethnic groups when there are three pictured.
Exactely my thoughts! Since when are Asians and Africans the same??!
I am a childminder of a little black boy, and my own three kinds are very -VERY- blonde. When his Dad comes to fetch him in the evening i always call the boy and say: Look, daddy is here!
Once my very blonde daughter (she was 2 at that time) an I went shopping and saw a man who looked quite like the father of the little boy, and she shouted : “LOOK, thats DADDY!!!” *lol* The man was a little embarrassed, looked down to the ground an vanished in the next aisle. The people around us laughed, because it was VERY clear, that my girl ist NOT the daughter of this man ….
But that is a little off topic, I guess.
I have to admit that I like the second picture because the curious crowd are children- and I really dislike the first picture because of the same thing ippi said- They are adults, (hopefully) educated… of course the are allowed to be curious too, but those in the picture see the two children not als children but like something in a museum, some oddities. The children in the first picture try to communicate with the girl, they see the foreign looking girl as a human child.
The demenour in both pictures is quite a different …
I meant my own three KIDS, not my own three kinds
Believe it or not, the situation in the bottom picture DOES happen. There are countries where no one has ever seen caucasians before, so they do get quite a bit of attention. A friend of mine is part Irish, very pale, with freckles and vivid red hair. She was in a situation like that at one point, and the children thought she had some kind of severe terminal disease.
It’s kind of hard to tell because the picture is so small but the first one looks like a still from a film about the sixties. Look at their clothes, look at the cameras they’re holding… it doesn’t look modern at all.
Yeah, just because the example is of children doesn’t mean that adults don’t tread you like that too. I’m very blonde and pale. I studied abroad in Spain one summer and when I went out to the bar one night a bunch of guys started running their fingers through my hair. It was really creepy.
Yes, it definitely goes both ways. I live in Costa Rica, and although it’s very cosmopolitan in the cities, if you go out in the country, people often goggle at me and my kids (we’re all tall, pale, blonde, and three of them have their dad’s blue eyes), they always want to touch my hair or that of my daughter. I think if it’s just genuine curiosity (for instance, if the person has never seen another race in person, it’s acceptable to be curious about how someone’s hair texture feels or whatever, as long as it’s not done in a creepy way) it’s ok. But the older people goggling at the little kids seems very demeaning, like relegating them to some kind of tourist attraction. I’m not a fan of this kind of tourism.
My parents went to Cancun in the late 80′s/early 90′s. Wherever him and my mom went, these dirty , poor Mexican kids were like fascinated with them. He actually has a picture with a group of them while holding $100 bills.
I wouldn’t be certain that child in the bottom panel is a girl. It honestly looks a lot like the little boy of an acquaintance of mine. He’s the right age/size, has the right hair color and curl and happens to be living in India right now, and I know from her blog posts that he does get that kind of attention.
long story short, yes the wonder goes both ways.
I’ve just decided to assume that in both pictures the toddlers were actually in the process of showing off and acting especially adorable. I don’t care what color you are, it’s hard not to be interested in a toddler who KNOWS they have an audience that thinks they’re wonderful!
I don’t really get why this is a big deal. Obviously you are going to be fascinated with something you do not see very often. Where is the harm in that?
My sister has been living in Korea for the past several years. She has curly, blonde hair. She has a large number of horror stories of people treating her like a zoo exhibit. She even had a couple hand her their baby and took pictures as if she was a Disney character.