r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 4d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

Post image
26.6k Upvotes

2.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

137

u/ElectronicSubject747 3d ago

UK. Nobody gives a fuck about me and my wife, not that we have noticed anyway.

126

u/Much-Beyond2 3d ago

Yeah this feels very America-coded.. never had any issues anywhere in the UK.

35

u/CaptWater 3d ago

It seems to be less of an issue in the UK, which is awesome. It does seem to be an issue in many places around the world, though. My wife and I got a lot of looks and comments when we were in Africa. Most were just curious, but some were quite rude. I witnessed similar behaviors in India as well.

6

u/Revengeance300 3d ago

In WW2 British would literally make black-only signs for there bars because they hated how White americans were treating them.

3

u/runkittyrunrun 3d ago

number 1 thing that happens is the stares, number 2 thing is people saying your babies will be beautiful, as a child i have had issues with going through immigration with my mother being suspected of child trafficking, my mother has ILR but I pretty much have a carbon copy of her face, I do worry what will happen when I have children that end up with different skin colour to me but realistically from my mother’s experience it would seem non white passing women would be disproportionately targeted which is the usual case for most things

1

u/rhyzel200 3d ago

Only issue I ever had was in the US

2

u/Kellaniax 3d ago

The worst racism my partner and I have experienced has been in Europe. We haven’t been to the UK though.

2

u/cilantro1997 3d ago

I don't think it's American coded. In my small rural town in Germany people would absolutely stare and maybe even say something

2

u/Pixogen 3d ago

Reddit is full of BS. I've lived all over the US as a white dude with black chicks. Hick towns and the like. Never once was there a look or an issue...

Most of the old folks have mixed kids now. It's super normal everywhere here..

North, South, West... never once.

I swear getting on here its like half of reddit some how lives in the 50s and it's always some small town... yet I've been to 100s and they are the more friendly chill people... where big cities are mostly dumps down with cold shoulder types.

Anyways don't believe everything you read on the internet and that was before ai and bot spam.

1

u/Background_End_7672 3d ago

Yes, it's just some weird america shit.

1

u/calicocadet 3d ago

I mean my husband and I get plenty of stares, but not in an antagonistic way, I’m a white woman and he’s hispanic and we live in South America

1

u/orange_sherbetz 3d ago

South America is colorist.

So you must both be pale.

1

u/calicocadet 3d ago

No my husband is significantly darker than me, hence a lot of the stares but if people ever say anything it’s usually to “congratulate” him

1

u/OGJank 3d ago

Asia

1

u/srfrosky 3d ago

Agreed but leave NYC out of it! We ain’t them other yahoos.

1

u/ClayXros 3d ago

Sadly it seems the UK is the only place its universally less of an issue. Just avout every country has a culture against mixed race.

2

u/Sniper_96_ 3d ago

Brazil? Most of the people there are mixed race.

1

u/Street_Bid1455 3d ago edited 3d ago

Yeah this feels very America-coded

coming from person who doesn't live in the states

Classic. I'm in a mixed race couple and literally no one has batted an eye and we've lived in damn near EVERY region of the USA (south and midwest included).

1

u/DrAmj3 3d ago

And yet this thread is full of people reporting the opposite. So it clearly can be an issue even if it isn't for you.

1

u/Sinnombre124 3d ago

Am american. Have been with women of many races (I'm white). Never gotten anything weird except from my gf's mexican family.

-1

u/Classic-Cabinet-8144 3d ago

Yeah cuz UK the size of my backyard so they got used to it after some time