A friend of mine is black and he went to Poland. Well, when he went there all jaws dropped, he said it was like Micheal Jordan had arrived. They were constantly staring at him, taking pictures with him and hugging him. He said it was even hard to eat in peace. I'm assuming these Polish people never saw blacks before.
2007-12-13 02:37:18 · 18 answers · asked by Diversity Girl 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Well Jovi, aren't white people rich?
2007-12-13 02:44:41 · update #1
bongerne, that is so sad and true
2007-12-13 02:45:44 · update #2
A. Roman I'm sorry you had such a bad experience.
2007-12-13 02:49:13 · update #3
Meshel, sorry to hear what happend but,South Dakota is not a country it's a state.
2007-12-13 02:50:47 · update #4
Honest, that is really cool but what is house share?
2007-12-13 02:56:18 · update #5
Not Always Sure, it is cool!
2007-12-13 03:10:13 · update #6
Nursing Student Ed, I am so sorry about what happened and you should have taken this to the next level by contacting the police or going to court. Especially since there are KKK meetings and it’s a shame that people are still filed with such harsh and hot hatred. This sounds like a movie, oh it’s so SICK! But when Satan rules the world I’m not really surprised. But I am really shocked that in Penn they feel this way. I always felt they were really helpful and nice. But you said Northeast, I'll check it out.
2007-12-13 03:23:09 · update #7
Thanks, cafeguru
2007-12-13 03:24:28 · update #8
Wow Moe, that is amazing
2007-12-14 04:37:29 · update #9
At least they were just curious and not hateful.
2007-12-13 02:40:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Let me say that I have found more tolerance and understanding even if there is surprise in other countries than the United States of America. I have been to Mexico, Alaska (yes I know it is a state, but you tell that to some of the Yupik, they still talk about the Lower 48 as if it is another country), to Canada where I have been among non-whites, to southern Spain where I have been among non-whites, and to Iraq and Kuwait where I was among non-whites.
I felt more respect from those who were not my racial composition, even from the Enemy (terrorists) than I get from some Whites in the United States.
I find some of the responses and your own responses to the responses interesting. No, not all Whites are rich. There are some very poor though honest and good Whites. There are some very rich or rather affluent Blacks, Asians, Latin Americans, and Indigenous peoples. To generalize like that is just not clear thinking or logical or realistic.
Don't assume anything.
I have been to the South, and have been stared at by Whites, by Blacks, and by Others. It's just a thing. Don't read too much into it. They may just not have the same "education" which teaches you NOT to stare.
Thank you very much and have a nice day!
2007-12-13 11:03:15 · answer #2 · answered by cafegroundzero 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We went to the Ivory Coast in Africa..(Cote D'Ivoire). rural village area. They obviously have not seen many if ANY white people before and its like WOAH.... little kids run up to you in the street, hard to eat in peace, everyone just stares, gathers around you. Unfortunatley the natrual assumption is also that white people are all extremley rich so you also get a LOT of requests for money, neverending. Its hard, but cool at the same time to be the novelty in town.
*Edit - yes, in comparrison to an African villager, a white person of any status would probably be 'rich' for example $2 would be like a weeks salary out there for working 12 hours days in a field. So even if you gave someone $2 randomly they would be over-joyed.
2007-12-13 10:41:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well... I never went to another country where whites haven't been before so... but I have a similar thing to tell:
I live in South Africa and in SA there are "informal settlements", basically homes made out of corregated metal, cinder blocks, etc... think DIY homes. Basically all the poorest black people of SA live there. One time I went into one. It was the same effect like your story about Poland.
2007-12-13 10:45:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yup. I dated a Polish girl in Greece, and she stared at the blacks for a while when she first got there. Not too many in Poland. So there's a chance they think your friend is famous. Like the time I went to Japan and people kept asking me for my autograph, thinking I was Tom Cruise. I'm blonde and look nothing like Tom Cruise.
2007-12-13 10:41:04 · answer #5 · answered by Juniper McClintock 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
About Poland, that's funny because my parents went to Poland and they didn't tell me any funny stories of people starring at them. lol I'm definately going to ask them now.
I used to live with a Polish guy (house share) and he was completely normal. He didn't stare at me or anything, but I guess he's used to Black people which is good. I even helped him set up his internet so he could share my connection :-)
Edit: House share = living under the same roof, paying rent for the room you live in but sharing the rest of the house with other people.
2007-12-13 10:54:51 · answer #6 · answered by honest 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not a country, a city.
Back in 2002, I was dating a black man, I'll call him Kevin.
Kevin's mother had given him up for adoption at age 5, and he was taken in by a white woman and her Native American husband. So, Kevin is pretty comfortable around all races of people. He attended prdominantly white schools but spent his summers in Philadelphia with his biological father (who was black and lived in a poor area).
Our largest city here has a population of 45,000 people, and the black population makes up about 40% of that, so white people and black people intermix, are friends with each other, are fairly comfortable with each other.
However, the town where I grew up has a population of only about 14000 people, and less than 10 of those people are black. The majority of the white people where I grew up are racist, and the KKK still holds weekly, public meetings throughout the community. Its pretty scary.
The town where I grew up has an auction at their library once a year, and its a fun time to be had. Kevin wanted to go with me when we were dating, but I warned him that it wouldn't be safe for him. Still, he insisted that I was "making it seem worse than it really is, people can't be that bad in this day and age."
Knowing differently, and being very hesitant, I took Kevin to the auction. At first, we didn't seem to have a problem, until it was rather obvious that people were keeping a 30 foot distance between themselves and the two of us. The security guards kept asking Kevin, "Can I HELP you? Do you NEED something?" As if he was going to steal something if they didn't follow us around. Some teenagers threw food at us, and I flipped out on them, but they said, "We weren't throwing it at you, we were throwing it at your n-----." I said to the security guards that we were being harrassed, and he said, "You asked for it, bringing THAT here."
Kevin told me to calm down, he said people were just ignorant because they had little previous exposure to black people, that they would start acting nicer the longer we were there. I said, "That's ********, they should be nice from the beginning!"
I wanted to leave but Kevin said no, give them a chance. Until someone flashed a handgun at us a short while later and said there would be "trouble" if either of us stayed much longer.
REALLY unbelievable that this still goes on in the 21st Century!!!!
2007-12-13 11:02:51 · answer #7 · answered by Barney Blake 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When we visited China, the only other white people we saw were in our hotel. The Chinese stared at us a lot, and the wait staff in one of the restaurant kept looking at us and giggling, but the strangest experience for me was when we were on the Great Wall. My husband left me alone for a few minutes, and several young Chinese men came up to me and showed me their camera. I thought they wanted me to take their picture together, so I started to reach for the camera, and they made it clear that they wanted me IN the picture WITH them! That was fine, and we all smiled while one of the fellows took a picture, they looked appreciative and walked away. Then their girlfriends ran up to me and started yelling at me, but I had no idea what they were saying, so I walked away.
2007-12-15 14:46:10 · answer #8 · answered by Mountain Girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a trip because where I grew up, majority of the population was Mexican. My school consisted 98.9% of the school being Mexican. Then when I attended college, I was surrounded by a diverse community, which was really new to me. I really enjoyed the experience because it made me more of an open-minded person to other races & beliefs. It was really cool.
2007-12-13 10:57:15 · answer #9 · answered by Not Always Sure 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
thats funny haha cuz i am polish and over there u dont have a lot of black people... maybe in some places but it is kind of shocking if u see one in poland... i didnt think poland is a good place to visit...
2007-12-13 10:42:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
im black and living in germany for the next year and i was shocked and pleased by the number of black people here
2007-12-13 12:51:55 · answer #11 · answered by Moe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋