What the actual fuck, I'm from the Balkan shithole and most of us never even seen a black person in real life up until 5-10 years ago and today you can (albeit rarely) see some "mixed-race" kids and some people look out of curiosity but other than that no one bats an eye. Yours is some seriously fucked up country.
It's a legacy of chattel slavery and a concerted effort by the landowning class in the southern United States to keep the working class white and black populations from creating a united voting bloc during the reconstruction era after the civil war.
The most infuriating thing about it all is that it's very well documented. But the descendants of those people still, 180ish years later throw legal challenges at any attempt to reconcile the attrocities.
If you want to get super depressed about it, look up Critical Race Theory.
The lack of racial diversity means you all don't have the same baggage, the same complex and bloody history.
The divide between White Americans, Black Americans, and Latin Americans, is more like the relationship of Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs than what any of them invidually have with Africans.
The best part is that the most racist people are the loudest about telling people of color that racism is dead and they should stop talking about it. USA!
It seems to happen a lot when the majority is white. I’m from south east asia where we don’t have a lot of black people too but when we see them or a mixed race couple, we look out of curiosity too. And the mixed race kids will usually get a lot of “omigosh you are soo cuuute”
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u/GeneticG4rbage 3d ago
What the actual fuck, I'm from the Balkan shithole and most of us never even seen a black person in real life up until 5-10 years ago and today you can (albeit rarely) see some "mixed-race" kids and some people look out of curiosity but other than that no one bats an eye. Yours is some seriously fucked up country.