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
I’ve been there this summer. There’s a sign asking you to tell your nationality while passing the person. It’s just for tourist demographics and completely voluntary.
That ruins the outrage!
I am outraged by this!
They come here, to this country, and they take away our outrage!
Lemmy’s participants, by and large, make me happy. Thanks, guys.
Stop being so easily outraged, it outrages me.
Alright this is getting out right outrageous.
Lemmy users sure are a contentious people.
YOU JUST MADE ME OUTRAGED FOR LIFE!
Imagine a NK General in uniform walks by and he clicks Japan lol
Poser racists think all Asian people are Chinese, all Hispanic people are Mexican, and all Black people are African. Professional racists can identify your home region by the minute traits that they loath about you.
“The slight trill in their accent and the width of the bridge of their nose tells me that they are from the Cassidian Provence of Blahgistan just north of the Arno Mountain range… bloody Cassidians taking our jobs!”
GeoGuessr, but with people.
“I can see that the hair has split ends so we can narrow it down to 45 degrees of the equator, that hair clip that has 3 black stripes in the middle so that means we can narrow it down to Southeast Pennsylvania. Actually that scar looks like it was made from the fence surrounding the Walmart on Driver Road…”
That and absolutely nobody wins.
I learn more about other cultures so I can be racist more accurately
I mean, being racist is such a huge part of your life. Why wouldn’t you want to do it well? Anything worth doing is worth doing right.
Seriously, racists are so lazy nowadays. Judging people based solely on skin color? Back in the day, they treated that shit like science.
British people hate people from the next county over more than they hate Gypsies and foreigners combined
It’s like a regional version of “better a heathen than a heretic”
As an American, in Tennessee, I don’t understand it. It’s not like the Brits have to deal with fucking Kentuckians, the cousin banging weirdos. Why do they hate on their neighbors so much? I mean, I have to live next door to yankee posers who fuck their sisters and made meth the state bird. And you don’t see me hating on the neighbors like that!
made meth the state bird
where’s this joke from? it feels familiar.
If I got it from somewhere I’ve forgotten. Closest similar joke I know is mosquito is the state bird
Next county? What about those swivel-eyed, inbred, sister-marrying, six-fingered, funny-talking loons from… the next town along?
It’s more sibling rivalry than hate. It’s far more terrifying. It gets even more so when something actually threatens either one. Anyone who’s seen the result of picking on the youngest of 3 brothers knows exactly what I mean.
Doesn’t even have to be the next county over for Newcastle and Sunderland
Scousers’ opinion of people from Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens: yeah, sound, bit odd but whatever. Scousers’ opinion of people from the Wirral: plazzy Scousers, the dark side, woollybacks… It must be something to do with rivers.
Gateshead is just getting caught in the crossfire
FYI loath vs loathe if you’re interested (unless it was a typo)
Typo
Icelanders can definitely tell a fellow Icelander from a foreigner just by looking.
I married one, so it always amuses me to see Icelandic shop staff look at us both and struggle for a second to work out which language to use.
I wasn’t aware nationality and race were indistinguishable. Yet.
Being Danish and intimately acquainted with my neighbours, I actually think you can tell Norwegians from Swedes fairly easy by looking at them. Not based on science, but… nevertheless.
Norwegian here: Yes. There are definitely some people that look very stereotypically Danish or Swedish, to the point where I feel like I know where they’re from before they say anything. Once they start talking, any doubts are of course out the window.
This job does not take your casual racist; no this takes a competitive racist to identify them.
Exactly what I hoped it was
Surely that info is freely available on the passport they are using to go through the airport.
Probably, but they figured out they could save time by just hiring Björn here.
His name is bernd!
Björgúlfur or something, surely.
Also, is Iceland falling so far behind in racial stereotyping that they’d bring in a German to do it for them?
It’s a german inside joke, explained in this video (in german).
There is a far right politician named Björn and who was mistakenly called Bernd by a local newspaper and got angry. To annoy him, a satire show calls him Bernd all the time. This caused enough confusion, that a public broadcaster messing up.
Edit: spelling
Who burnt it?
How’d it get burned!?
All they need to do it check all of the passports to make sure his selections are accurate!
Iceland’s in the Schengen area so there’s a lot of flights coming where they don’t even ask for your passport. That’s how it was done when I was there in 2019 or so, anyway.
Passports are checked by some government authority, they don’t give you access to the data, so the professional racist is there for statistics used by whomever.
Surely they can extract just that data. Though it might depend on that country’s specific regulation.
Palli, hahah
Pyytäisitkö palliasi lopettamaan twiittailun, Matti. Vähintäänkin voisit pyytää siirtymään Mastodoniin.
What if you are VERY mixed race? Is that an automatic “American”?
Assuming someone very mixed race is American is definitely an automatic “America”.
Believe it or not, straight to the detention camp.
That’s what he picks if you tell him you’re Irish.
Brazilian, I guess? Ethnical diversity is a known characteristic of the Brazilian history.
I like to think of myself as European, thank you very much.
Are we gonna talk about the fact that this is clearly an Asian dude? Hair this black is practically nonexistent amongst the native population.
hol up, whats wrong with his face? is it melting? is his eyebrow below the top of his ear?? lol
I’ve self diagnosed with face blindness, so I’m not certainly not the greatest expert on this subject, but I think that might be an eyelid combined with an odd camera angle.
I assume this is to select the country the passport is from or something?
