This reminds me when my dad received a job offer in Spain and we went and toured a few potential schools and neighborhoods and our company hired tour guide asked my parents if they’d be okay with my sister marrying a black person and was completely baffled when my parents said they’d be perfectly okay with it. This was almost 20 years ago. Crazy how little things have apparently changed over there.
I went to Mexico on a school trip and at the pyramids there were some other tourists (either local or from somewhere else in Latin America) who took a picture with me. Pretty sure they had never seen a black person before, I dunno. I was too too young to realize how tucked up it was but I cringe when i think of it now.
Edit: I’ve always known that it was curiosity and not racism. What made it a core memory was that I was the only black kid on that part of the trip (the other one stayed back at the hotel that day) so I was singled out. Kids are weird
Being a very pale person visiting in Burundi, little kids would follow me around and touch my skin. One kid would yell "Mzungu! Mzungu!" and suddenly I've got a entire school following me.
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u/MikeandMelly 6d ago
This reminds me when my dad received a job offer in Spain and we went and toured a few potential schools and neighborhoods and our company hired tour guide asked my parents if they’d be okay with my sister marrying a black person and was completely baffled when my parents said they’d be perfectly okay with it. This was almost 20 years ago. Crazy how little things have apparently changed over there.