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[–] [email protected] 301 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 211 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 73 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Lemmy's participants, by and large, make me happy. Thanks, guys.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Stop being so easily outraged, it outrages me.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Alright this is getting out right outrageous.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy users sure are a contentious people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

YOU JUST MADE ME OUTRAGED FOR LIFE!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

They come here, to this country, and they take away our outrage!

[–] [email protected] 100 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

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!"

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I learn more about other cultures so I can be racist more accurately

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Seriously, racists are so lazy nowadays. Judging people based solely on skin color? Back in the day, they treated that shit like science.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (3 children)

British people hate people from the next county over more than they hate Gypsies and foreigners combined

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

made meth the state bird

where's this joke from? it feels familiar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

If I got it from somewhere I've forgotten. Closest similar joke I know is mosquito is the state bird

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't even have to be the next county over for Newcastle and Sunderland

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

GeoGuessr, but with people.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

"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..."

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

FYI loath vs loathe if you're interested (unless it was a typo)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loath

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This job does not take your casual racist; no this takes a competitive racist to identify them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Exactly what I hoped it was

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

"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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Well, according to chronically online Americans race is when you speak, dress, eat, and behave in a certain way

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (4 children)

What if you are VERY mixed race? Is that an automatic "American"?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

Assuming someone very mixed race is American is definitely an automatic “America”.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Believe it or not, straight to the detention camp.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I like to think of myself as European, thank you very much.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

hol up, whats wrong with his face? is it melting? is his eyebrow below the top of his ear?? lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Imagine a NK General in uniform walks by and he clicks Japan lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I wasn’t aware nationality and race were indistinguishable. Yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I assume this is to select the country the passport is from or something?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Pyytäisitkö palliasi lopettamaan twiittailun, Matti. Vähintäänkin voisit pyytää siirtymään Mastodoniin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Nm i'm in the wrong place 🙂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Are we gonna talk about the fact that this is clearly an Asian dude? Hair this black is practically nonexistent amongst the native population.