[ SECRET POST #2150 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2150 ⌋

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Comments

[(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.