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18 June 2025

Stuff Americans say
Race part 2

Stuff Americans say

Four friends of different ethnicities laughing together as snow falls around them

Twitter/X thread (Mar 12). Three tweets. First (username redacted, Mar 12): "Is that woman actually Asian?" Second (username redacted, Mar 12): "Uhhhh... where is India?" Third (username redacted, Mar 12): "Uhhh, my point is, when you think European guy, you first picture a European guy, not for instance a Spanish guy, though a Spanish guy is technically by your reasoning in Europe. When you think 'Asian lady', that's what you imagine. Not an Indian lady or a lady such as the one" (cut off)

YouTube comment thread with Swedish-language interface ("for 9 tim sedan"). First comment (username redacted, 9h ago): "Imagine walking into a hospital with a broken leg, and leaving with a $20,000 bill!? Poor Americans. Bless their clogged little hearts". Reply (username redacted, 8h ago): "Ok racist." Reply (username redacted, 8h ago): "American isn't a race..."

TikTok screenshot on mobile. For You page. Video of a young black man in a shirt and tie with text overlay: "guys i GUESS i'm NOT black anymore because this african american said in order to be BLACK you have to be african american" with crying emoji. Overlaid comment: "No you're an African Migrant in America its a difference. 'Black' does not include immigrants because its attached to our heritage and history in America. Its a" (cut off).

Screenshot combining a printer specs label showing "Black / Negro" print speed (8.8 ipm, ISO/IEC 24734) and a long rant below. The rant complains about the Spanish word "Negro" on a printer cartridge label, calling Spanish "one of the most racist, sexist and transphobic languages ever", demanding the language be changed, criticising "Latinx friends" for using gendered language, and comparing the word to racial slurs

Twitter/X post with Spanish-language interface ("Seguir", "Traducir post"). DJ Big A (@djbigatexas): "This is not an African hairstyle. This is a Black American hairstyle" with raised fist emoji. Quote-tweeting African Hub (@AfricanHub, 5d): "Your comments on this... Dear African women, African men love this hairstyle so much. Do it more often" with four photos of women with braided hairstyles

Facebook post screenshot. Group: "DISNEYLAND MAGIC KEY HOLDERS". Post (username redacted, 2h): "Members: I have seen a couple of instances of the use of the term 'Karen' in the group. Please be aware that this is a racist term and it will not be permitted any more than any terms stereotyping other races. I won't ban you for it but I WILL remove it. NOTE: I have modified rule #7 to cover this issue." Comments: "Ok Karen" (Just now). "What about 'man karen'?" (6m). Author/Admin reply: "I am not allowing the term, period."

Reddit comment thread. Top comment (username redacted, 15 downvotes): "i dont even get it why that term is so often used in usa. in europe that term is really uncommon and hated". Teleport__ (28d): "Because USA was multi-racial since it's inception while a majority of Europeans wont even see anyone of a different race in their entire lifetime." Ahandleofsomesort (20d): "I sincerely hope you're joking and don't actually believe this". Ahandleofsomesort (20d): "right, but 'the majority of europeans' do not live in tiny rural towns and villages in Eastern and southern Europe. The idea that most will go their whole lives without seeing anyone of a different race is just patently ridiculous"

Twitter/X post (username redacted, Follow button). Post: "every time i'm in the UK i feel this gaping hole in the culture made by the absolute absence of mexicans" 10:41 AM, 2025-04-10.

Reddit comment thread. ThanksObama92 (9h): "Also, Americans bought their African slaves from other Africans so I mean who is really to blame?" Wyatt_Isryte (5h): "If we're being totally honest, the best thing that ever happened to the black race as a whole was the african slave trade. Look at the lives of blacks in the west vs the lives of those in their nations of origin."

Reddit comment (old Reddit interface). Meeker128 (1 day ago, Validated User): "Personally, I don't like being referred to as white. I'm Germanic, Celt, and Saxon. Or more recently, German, Scottish, Irish, English and some other junk. I'd be fine with Northern European American. My roommate's is even worse. White/Other Asian. Bleh. How about they just put up a shade chart and you match it up to your arm. It's such bullshit. They don't actually care unless they can somehow discriminate against you."

Forum post (Pern fanatic, Validated User, Today at 5:26 PM, post #1,002). Text about visiting Austria and Slovenia: "I was quite disturbed by how relentlessly white everyone seemed to be... to be in the middle of it all the time was unsettling for me. I saw groups of tourists who looked East Asian, but I rarely if ever saw anyone I would categorize as black or Middle Eastern or Latino or Native American. And it creeped me out. When I returned home, the only way I could find to explain the feeling was that I felt as though I had wandered into a racist gated community."

Reddit comment. TemperedTorture (5h): "Europeans, Canadians and Australians are all about a century or so behind the US with regards to race relations because at least the US has had a couple of anti-racist revolutions. This doesn't mean that the US isn't racist, but most euros (outside of Germany) literally never had to face a reckoning for their white supremacy and therefore have developed a much more deeply internalized hatred of non whites."

Threads app comment thread. Thread. Replies about Elon Musk. First (username redacted, 8h): "His brother who came with him admitted it on TV. The difference is, Musk is white." Second (username redacted, 7h): "He's not white he was born in South Africa!" Third (username redacted, 7h): "I mean, he's still white though... He's just from Africa. That's like saying Samuel L Jackson isn't black because he was born in Washington DC." Fourth (username redacted, 7h): "Ok. So I was born here in the USA and both my parents where also born in the USA. Does that make me white???" Fifth (username redacted, 6h): "only if your parents are white? have you SEEN musk's parents?"

TikTok/Instagram comment thread. Four comments about a musician. First (username redacted, 3h): "Is he like full white?" Second (username redacted, 3h): "I love his music". Third (username redacted, 3h): "he's irish". Fourth (username redacted, 2h): "is Irish white?"

Reddit comment. Kind-Marsupial-8601 (1mo, 3 downvotes): "I've been to every single state and never ONCE seen or heard ANYONE pick on anyone because of their skin color after highschool. You are ignorant. America is the safest place on the planet for all races and comments like this spread the cancer that is racism itself."

Reddit post from r/AncestryDNA. Posted by u/darkpresence66, 11 hours ago. Title: "If your 10% asian, does that give you the right to call yourself Asian." Tagged "Question / Help". Text asking what percentage of ancestry qualifies someone to identify with a particular racial/ethnic group.

Reddit comment thread. ranked11 (8h, 155 downvotes): "This is Italy. I know a lot of people think America is the most racist country but Europe hasn't had any civil rights/race movements. It's much more racist there". CaptainInsulin (3h): "Americans always talk about Europe as if it's one country". blewyn (4h): "Yeah there's a reason European countries didn't need as prominent a civil rights movement as the US......."

Instagram screenshot. TikTok/Reels video of a black woman with curly hair in a kitchen, text overlay "Oh and...". Caption: "Absolutely guilty but hey, have you seen your kids..." Comment below (username redacted, 12w): "She's not black she's African there is a difference I was born in the USA I'm a black woman she is African that's it and all"

Reddit post from r/AskUK. Posted by ShadowOfDespair666, 5 hours ago. Title: "Do black British people look down on black Americans?" Text: "I'm a Black man from the USA, and I realized that a lot of Black people over here use AAVE. Some people might call that 'ghetto English.' I don't use it, but I have noticed that Black people in the UK don't use AAVE; they all use Standard English with the rest of UK citizens." Edit adds: "Do SOME black British people look down on black Americans who specifically act in a stereotypical way?"

TikTok screenshot. Video of a young white woman with brown hair in a beige knit sweater. Overlaid comment: "ur literally white". Text overlay: "assuming i'm white just bc im white passing" with heart-eyes emojis. Below: "i'm 75% french and 25% belgian :)"

TikTok/Instagram comment thread. Three comments with username redacted. First (Pinned): "I see African culture not black culture. 2 different things". Second: "are we not also Black" with thinking emoji. Third: reply about culture being "born out of slavery and segregation here in the US" and "Africans are not black and blacks are not African"

YouTube comment thread with Spanish-language interface ("RESPONDER"). Two comments with username redacted. First: "Finn isn't African American you silly goose." Second: "His Actor is. His Nationality is British but his race is African American"

TikTok screenshot. Video of a person with a green frog plush on their head drinking from a blue cup. Text overlay: "europeans canadians and australians being glad we were gone and saying tiktok was much more 'quiet' and saying the americans were 'so loud' and 'obnoxious' dare i say this is racism against the blacks and latinos of america". Username: xiv / barb

YouTube comment with German-language interface ("vor 16 Std."). username redacted. Comment: "We know Christianity is correct because you see the other races and their shithole countries and you see Christian America as top G"

Twitter/X thread. Irish Times Health+ (@.., 20h): "Guiding young Irish women, who lack representation in Stem fields, all the way to world finals. (via @IT_HealthPlus)" Link preview with photo of four young black women smiling. Article from irishtimes.com. Reply (username redacted, 12h): "They're not Irish. I'm more Irish and my family hasn't been back in Ireland since The Great Hunger."

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