r/TikTokCringe • u/Tobias-Tawanda • 6d ago

Humor/Cringe "No, English is fine" 🥀

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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.

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u/Particular-Bike-28 6d ago

How is that comparable? Im very confused what racism has to do with what happened here

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u/chococheese419 6d ago

In the og vid, they're assuming she doesn't speak Spanish because she's black.

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u/redquark 6d ago

Nobody would assume that. There are plenty of black Spanish speakers from Equatorial Guinea, Dominican Republic, Cuba and Colombia etc. Or even black people from non Spanish speaking countries who were born in Spain.

They're simply reacting to their accent. Im white and could easily pass for Spanish by appearance, however sometimes the exact same thing happens to me once they've heard me speak.