the fuck is with these comments? yall never leave the united states? this isn’t about race. you can absolutely make a ton of informed observations based on so many social cues, styles, speech, and so on. and as others pointed out, the guests tell you too lol.
Honestly it’s fucking weird you guys think this is racist. makes me wonder if you even understand what racism is
Exactly this… I’ve been called out before for saying that someone (who was french) “looked french”, with the implication that it was racist of me to imply that people from different countries typically have subtly different features.
Of course, you can’t always tell where someone is from based on how they look, act, or speak, but pretending that there aren’t certain phenotypes that are more common some places than others is just ignoring what we can observe. It’s not always easy to pinpoint exactly what it is, but people generally have an idea of what a “typical southern/western/eastern/northern european”, looks like (or any other area of the world for that matter), and often that intuition will be correct. This is not racism, it’s simply the fact that after seeing a bunch of people from some country or region, you build a pattern for what phenotypes are typical in that region. Racism is when you decide to assign more worth to some phenotype or ethnicity than another, which is a whole different thing.
Basically, recognising that people are in fact different is not racism. Determining someones worth or quality of character based on differences in phenotype is.
“Looking french” is an amazing example of this. French people can have skin tone ranging from the palest of white to the darkest brown, yet when you see them they are unmistakably French.
the fuck is with these comments? yall never leave the united states? this isn’t about race. you can absolutely make a ton of informed observations based on so many social cues, styles, speech, and so on. and as others pointed out, the guests tell you too lol.
Honestly it’s fucking weird you guys think this is racist. makes me wonder if you even understand what racism is
Exactly this… I’ve been called out before for saying that someone (who was french) “looked french”, with the implication that it was racist of me to imply that people from different countries typically have subtly different features.
Of course, you can’t always tell where someone is from based on how they look, act, or speak, but pretending that there aren’t certain phenotypes that are more common some places than others is just ignoring what we can observe. It’s not always easy to pinpoint exactly what it is, but people generally have an idea of what a “typical southern/western/eastern/northern european”, looks like (or any other area of the world for that matter), and often that intuition will be correct. This is not racism, it’s simply the fact that after seeing a bunch of people from some country or region, you build a pattern for what phenotypes are typical in that region. Racism is when you decide to assign more worth to some phenotype or ethnicity than another, which is a whole different thing.
Basically, recognising that people are in fact different is not racism. Determining someones worth or quality of character based on differences in phenotype is.
“Looking french” is an amazing example of this. French people can have skin tone ranging from the palest of white to the darkest brown, yet when you see them they are unmistakably French.
Well, according to chronically online Americans race is when you speak, dress, eat, and behave in a certain way