Yeah, I get it but some of my in laws live in Amsterdam and a really good friend in Germany (from there), I made a master race joke that did NOT go over well. But you are correct, mostly Americans go RIGHT towards the implication.
Funnily enough US's canceling culture has taken over Europe aswell. Sinterklaas's help, black pete, got totally cancelled by these 'woke' people. (Has nothing to do with racism or blackface, it was celebrated in our black colonies aswell)
Western/Central Europeans who don't live their lives with basically their hands covering their eyes and ears are fully aware that blackface is unacceptable lol
I think there’s nothing wrong with this, they obviously wanted to represent the German flag with the colours yellow, red and black.
Blackface is not just painting your face black, it was used to dehumanize and stereotype black Americans. These kids do neither of them. That’s just my opinion 🤷♂️
You're right, but people will complain. You can't do anything without people complaining and accusing you of being disrespectful to someone (or worse).
In a normal society everyone would understand that there are no bad intentions behind.
The kids didn't have that intention of course, and everyone understands the 3 of them are meant to portray the colors of the flag, but this is on the parents. They royally fucked up in thinking this would be a good idea when it means painting one of the kids black and no other color.
Youre forgetting that Americans, and the larger perpetually online community, dont care about context. They only care about being offended. I saw another one of these with 3 guys from the Netherlands painted Orange, and the comment section was basically just a shit show calling the Dutch racists... like orange is actually the new black lol.
Yup, like some Dutch guys that painted their faces brown and wore dreadlock wigs similar to iconic Dutch footballer Ruud Gullit.
The world was outraged that they dared dress up like that. Then Ruud Gullit himself reacted that he was "honoured" by the guys dressing up to look like him.
I understand people are offended by blackface and for this reason people shouldn't dress up as such, but I do believe the context matters. If you dress up and colour yourself a little darker to look more like someone to express respect for them, I don't see how that's considered such a bad thing.
There‘s a picture of Obamas sister dressed up in a Dirndl (traditional bavarian dress) at the Octoberfest. I brought that up in an argument about cultural appropriation and apperently that isn‘t that, because it only works against minorities. At the end of the day it‘s mostly white people being second handedly outraged about things they don‘t know shit about
It’s not Americans. It’s a certain demographic of whiny idiots living in America. Complainers are always the loudest even if it’s a tiny percentage of the population.
Right because there isn’t any proof that Germans put blacks in cages and laughed at them for entertainment. Other than the pictures. Let’s not act like we’re uncivilized and you’re some sort of champions of decency.
How about we stop importing all the insane race baiting BS from a nation who calls the beautiful game “ soccer” and let the German kids enjoy a wonderful nation team ( who did get a little bit to much help from the VAR side yesterday but definitely deserve to keep striving for their title).
Gotta say, it's truly next level imbecility to cry about an icecream name that you deem racist because it resembles a racist term in a different language, only to then address the "culprits" by that racist term.
We have celebrities called "Dan Negru" and "Iulia Albu"
Which means "Dan Black" and "Iulia White"
We also have a city called "Alba Iulia" (The White Iulia, the names are not related, Iulia Albu is just a super annoying fashion designer that most people dislike.)
Tbh when I was a youngling I used to think Montenegro and Monaco were the same place lol. Geography is not really a thing that’s taught in depth here. Then again I also saw a TV show where a British girl thought France “was not the continent”.
Few years ago, there was a viral photo from Croatia, where kid was wearing a blackface during carnival week. Americans were shocked, but in reality, blackface in Croatia doesn't have any relations with black people or racism. So it was funny to see all the comments that didn't have any idea what is going on lol
Americans are exhaustingly desperate to call anything racist, and they have their own bizarre definitions of racism that they think apply to the entire world.
I’m not American but I believe it’s seen as racist because black people were not allowed to perform in plays etc. so white people wore black face to characterise them.
Not saying it should be considered universally racist but I can understand why it is in the US
It's seen as racist in America because of what we did with it. It was used to mock Black people in a very stereotypical and dehumanizing way. Since some people here still do it to be intentionally offensive, it's still racist.
It doesn't matter why you do it in the us they will still call you a Nazi and want you to lose your job. We really shouldn't adopt this American craziness here.
The problem isn‘t painting your face black.
The problem is the context. If you do it to imitate or to make fun of black people it‘s racist. If you do it to imitate say a Miner with a black face because of coal or like in this example to paint the German flag there ain‘t any problem.
Surely even Americans can see that this kid is pure black, uniform from hair to skin. There is no effort to look like a black person, they just want to be jet black. In this context I see nothing wrong with this. Cropped out for rage engagement is worse than actual blackface
Absolutely. Globalization but it's only us non-Americans being subjected to American standards, all the while Americans think their own social concepts are universally established realities that they are entitled to export everywhere.
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I understand why people would be upset about this but in this context it’s absolutely fine. People should be more outraged by the two fans doing a Nazi salute that no one seems to be talking about.
There's definitely a picture somewhere of teenager me painted up as Zwarte Piet at an orphanage giving out gifts with Sinterklaas. Now living in the States, if that ever gets out, I'm so done...
They found the loophole