[ SECRET POST #2150 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2150 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Where I live, it is usual for kids to paint their faces with black paint when playing a black character in school plays. There were black people involved in our independence, but the African population almos dissappeared in the 19th century, so there are literally almost no black chidren in school. And so there is "blackface". And no one thinks it is offensive because the concept of blackface doesn't even exist.

[(Anonymous)]

Or, you know, no one thinks it's offensive because there are very few people of the group who would be offended present and thus no one fucking tells you about it?

[(Anonymous)]

no

[(Anonymous)]

(DA) "Blackface" is a caricaturization and because of that, in certain countries carries a very negative baggage.
Meanwhile in some other countries, doing something like painting their faces for a school play is just to represent a non-white character; this is not done as a mock and doesn't have any negative connotations. Hence, is not offensive in those countries, even if in America and some other few countries it is.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Some things just literally don't have the baggage attached in different countries.

Like the n-word. In America, it's a horrible slur. In Russia, what we call black people is really close to it - as in, it comes from the same root. I feel a little uncomfortable saying it sometimes, because I've lived in Western countries since I was seven, but it's just not offensive in Russian.

Or, I don't know, I've heard that the Polish word for Jew is a slur for Jews in Russian.

[(Anonymous)]

Truth. (There is no еврей in Polish, only żyd.) Both examples felt weird to me when learning them, and I still feel strange using the word in Russian, though I know it's not inappropriate.

/cool story.

[(Anonymous)]

Or the word homo. Apparently it's really offensive in America, but here it's just a word (the "official" word, even, the one all media uses) for a homosexual person, usually a man. True, it can be used as an insult, but pretty much all words can depending on your tone and intent.

[lovelycudy]

In Spanish, the word "black" is "negro" and it is used as an endearment. I am white and there are people who call me "negri", "negrita", etc. So, yeah, words mean different things in diffrent places.