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Post by eufrenio on Aug 5, 2005 8:49:19 GMT -5
Do you remember the moment you realised there were other races, people who were different ? (Hell, I didn´t understand the concept of a foreign country until I was six! )I remember the first time I met someone from another race: there was a Gypsy woman begging down the street and I asked my father what kind of person she was. Other distant races and peoples I heard from my father and neighbours, who had traveled abroad. What were the racial stereotypes you were taught in your childhood in your family circle? They can be positive or negative; they can be physical (e.g.: all Germans are tall) or moral (all Scots are tight-fisted), etc. Please share your stories.
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Post by gelaye on Aug 5, 2005 9:00:35 GMT -5
heres a few -
ethiopians are always late (my dad would go on about this to my mum - it was his way of getting at her when she used to say that scottish people are tight fisted!)
oriental people are schemeing (my mum used to say theyll be nice to your face but you cant trust them....i never believed this though....so don't worry!)
americans are all rich and have nice houses and warm families (from movies LOL)
just a few.........
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Post by henerte on Aug 5, 2005 10:49:19 GMT -5
The first time when I saw a black person was in France in the early 90s. I went there with my dad, as a tourist. I remember that all these blacks were doing the dirtiest jobs (cleaning streets etc). They were also extremely black. It was also the first time when I became prejudiced toward africans - I still heaven't healed from that. ;D
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Aug 5, 2005 11:24:40 GMT -5
I honestly cannot remember when I first became racially conscious. Really the distinction was only between whites and blacks. As for "browns" like mestizos, I really didn't think they were much different from whites, I think, until later on in childhood.
I think at the prime of my adolescence, I recognized the following as "races":
-Whites -Blacks -Hispanics/Latinos -Arabs -Asians -East Indians -Eskimos -American Indians
Of course, I was in error at that point in my life, but it does give you a picture of how race is viewed in American society.
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Post by gelaye on Aug 5, 2005 12:01:08 GMT -5
koreans are the nicest, warmest people in asia - according to my mother, whos best freind is korean. she didnt understand why I became interested in japanese culture - she said that they were 'bad to koreans' and 'not as good looking as korean people' hahaha (i dont think her whole all asians are two faced thing was that strong in her opinion LOL)
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Post by Evan1211 on Aug 5, 2005 12:06:41 GMT -5
My dad told me about Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Negroid when I was 4. ;D
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Post by captainusa1 on Aug 5, 2005 23:49:24 GMT -5
I thought that there were two different races when I was around two. The two races were....blondes and brunettes. Black people were members of the same race as White people in my mind. I thought that blondes were as exotic as extraterrestrials!
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Post by Matthew on Aug 6, 2005 0:02:57 GMT -5
My family's warm, and pretty interesting.
I remember seeing black people when young and asking "Mommy, who are those people?"
I was never taught any racial steretypes, just that there are different races, that are all unique.
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Post by MC anunnaki on Aug 7, 2005 11:53:45 GMT -5
I can honestly say I wasn't taught any racial stereotypes. My mother simply didn't have any to share. When I was younger I thought in terms of nationality and not ethnicity or race. Poles were Poles, regardless if some of them looked more like Swedes than the half-black or half-Asian kids in my school. Those peeps were all Swedish!
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Post by murphee on Aug 7, 2005 12:37:19 GMT -5
From my childhood: My parents told us that 'Goys' were different from us, though not inferior or to be avoided. We needed to be aware that some might hate us unfairly because we were Jews. I was told, and immediately did not believe because it was illogical, that "every Goy has at least once in some point in his life hated Jews." My father's parents were strongly prejudiced against Black people, and quite a few times as a very young child heard mutterings about "The Schwartzes." (Yiddish for Blacks). The grandparents were very old and crotchety and big complainers, and the rants were part of the package.
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Post by murphee on Aug 7, 2005 12:52:14 GMT -5
Also, when I was a child, my parents would talk of how they hated the Germans because of World War 2. My father would rant about how he will NEVER travel to Germany or buy German products such as Volkswagens. A decade or more passed, and he changed his attitude: he travelled to Germany and Austria many times and also bought German products. He overcame his prejudice, and also stopped talking negatively about Germans.
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Aug 7, 2005 12:58:03 GMT -5
Golly, white nationalists would have a field day with your folks, Murph. They'd try to say it's proof that Jews hate the Goyim and are planning to rule the world!
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Post by MC anunnaki on Aug 7, 2005 13:26:59 GMT -5
Well, they got it all wrong. I am going to rule the world. So there!
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Post by Nist on Aug 7, 2005 13:32:24 GMT -5
Being a mulatto, you would think that my mom simply dropped things as stereotypes. Not so, gypsies and Jews were bad. But she had the decency to start ranting after i was 16 and mature enough to form my own opinions.
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Post by murphee on Aug 7, 2005 18:15:29 GMT -5
LOL, Mike!
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