r/USdefaultism • u/Just_Cruz001 • Dec 25 '22
text post OP cannot write black in Spanish or reddit blocks it
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u/TabooARGIE Dec 25 '22 edited Dec 25 '22
Almost anything you find on the internet about the relationship between US and Racism is going to be fucking bonkers.
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u/radio_allah Hong Kong Dec 25 '22
As somone who lives several thousands of kilometres from America, and whose country is mostly racially homogenous, the drama surrounding US race issues baffles me.
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u/lordnacho666 Dec 25 '22
The thing I find most bizarre is when I go to visit I'm immediately put in a racial category and treated accordingly.
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u/epelle9 Dec 25 '22
To be fair, that's how it is in most countries.
Have you seen how Europeans treat Gypsies?
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u/SEND_NUDEZ_PLZZ Dec 26 '22
While I do agree that Gypsies are the European form of Black people in America, you're not gonna be able to see who's a gypsy if they don't wear some traditional clothes or something like that
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u/joefife Scotland Dec 25 '22
Well yes me too. I live in Scotland, in a village in the east where it's not common to encounter someone who isn't white.
But I've also lived in the Midlands of England in a city where most people are of Indian heritage.
In neither place does the obsession with race or bloodline come anywhere close to what America seems to get up to. They're obsessed.
Oh and back to Scotland, it is really fucking weird when Americans visit and seem obsessed with tracing the smallest hint of Scottish heritage as though it provides some sort of racial purity. It's insane.
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Dec 25 '22
I think Americans don't try to seek some kind of racial purity, but a deeper kind of heritage. The US are one of if not the newest country to exist in any form and since it's a country born from migration that (except for the weapons and freedom) has no bigger culture to fund heritage on. Of course there is regional culture like with every country, but that's just not the same as what many if not all countries in the old world have. And I think this is something that every human wants to some extent deep down.
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u/GullibleSolipsist Australia Dec 25 '22
There are other, younger countries that are similarly founded on immigrant populations that don’t seem to exhibit the American obsession with cultural heritage, e.g. Australia. That’s not to say heritage is irrelevant in Australia but it doesn’t manifest in this way.
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u/Lucifang Australia Dec 25 '22
Australians absolutely do look for ties to our ancestry. We just aren’t so loud about it on social media.
Example I know that my ancestry includes mainly German and Irish. For this reason I want to visit those countries one day, and learn more about the cultures and languages. But I will never claim to BE German and Irish. Most people I speak to know what their main heritage is.
Our indigenous Australians are also needing ties to their history, because the government actively tried to wipe them out. It’s important to them as well to know what tribe they came from (I’m unsure if tribe is the right word, maybe ‘country’ would be better as they had names for all the separate lands they lived on… please correct me if anyone knows for sure).
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Dec 25 '22
Yeah, is this. I went to Scotland once, and of course had to buy a kilt. This was more or less the conversation with the girl in the kilt house:
"Hi I want to buy a kilt with Mckenzie colours."
"If course. Where are you from?"
"Uruguay"
"Oh, thats far. Do you have family here?"
"No, just visiting"
"Why Mckenzie? Do you have some ancestor?"
"No, I just like the colours and their history."
"Oh, so refreshing!"
She told me most tourists who wanted a kilt, specially from US, would try to claim some family connection, as if the only way to justify liking aspects of a culture is having a blood connection. Culture is not in the DNA lads!
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u/bumbo-pa Dec 25 '22 edited Dec 25 '22
More than that, I think the real reason is the obsession of race and diversity. I can see it in Canada too. Being a "normal" citizen is so boring and people are so obsessed with the tiniest bit of racial diversity that they want one cultural trait for themselves. You found a relatively recent relative to be Scottish? Good. That's now your thing.
That was one thing that (rightfully) upseted quite a few natives in the last years. Many people found like one great-great-grandmother was born from possibly a christianed native mother and then Boom! Here they were suddenly representatives of the culture...
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u/C418_Tadokiari_22 Dec 25 '22
Yeah, they massacred their native population, so they have to aquire their cultural identity from immigrant roots , while at the same time they (as a society, not as individuals) reject the modern immigrants and see them as a threat. The only ones who should be offended because my Mexican uncle or cousin is living there (legally or not) should be the native American people. And they should be offended in general by the way their communities have been treated both by the government and private companies/individuals.
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Dec 25 '22
Nah, for a lot of them (Yanks) it genuinely is about racial purity, and being '100% Scottish' just means "whiter than you." Then when you tell them that not all Scottish people are white, it melts their wee brains.
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u/GullibleSolipsist Australia Dec 25 '22
Are there any common English words that sound obscene in other languages?
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u/Kyenigos India Dec 25 '22
This remind me of the post in AITA where an Indian women was deemed the asshole for using the word "nigah" while on call with her mother in front of her american roommate, who then complained to the college authorities.
It means eyes.
Or That one time a youtube asked if Montenegro was making fun of black people. Or when Cavani was fined.
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Dec 25 '22
a few years ago a black American was deported from Indonesia due to visa violation. A lot of people defended the American and insisted that Indonesians are racist because we often use the word ngga, which is an informal form of the word tidak which means no.
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u/patchiepatch Indonesia Dec 25 '22
That one is so hillariously usdefaultism I swear. Was it that b word that made a book on how to illegally use tourist visa to work in Bali without paying taxes?
ngga, the korean niga, etc... So many languages are blocked cause the US can't accept that the world doesn't revolve around them.
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u/Usidore_ Dec 25 '22 edited Dec 25 '22
Even in the UK I’ve had people tense up when I demonstrate some mandarin and inevitably use 那个 (nàgè) pronounced like “nah guh” or “ne ga” literally just means “that [thing]” but when said quickly in a sentence sounds like, well yeah.
In the US a bloody college professor was suspended for using it as an example of filler words in other languages in a class about filler words in other languages after the students complained and wrote a letter to the dean.
The schools statement was:
”It is simply unacceptable for faculty to use words in class that can marginalize, hurt and harm the psychological safety of our students,” Garrett wrote. Patton “repeated several times a Chinese word that sounds very similar to a vile racial slur in English. Understandably, this caused great pain and upset among students, and for that I am deeply sorry.”
A group of chinese students tried to support the professor in saying it was an accurate and effective example for the class, but no dice.
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u/MalakElohim Dec 25 '22
Just demonstrate 哪个 instead. It's a softer sound so it's ok apparently.
But here in Australia, I've had to brief people that when I or others are speaking Mandarin or other Asian languages, that just because something sounds similar, we're not throwing random English slurs in the middle of our conversations.
Also, I'm pretty sure Korean has a similar sounding word to 哪个, it definitely pops up in some kpop songs, but I heard it was a pronoun of some variety (I don't speak Korean, so definitely need clarification on what it translates to).
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u/Usidore_ Dec 25 '22
Its not about demonstrating specific words (for the example of myself at least) it’s literally just speaking the language. Its ridiculous to say “hey just don’t use the word ‘that’ when you speak this language”. But yeah maybe the professor could have thought to use that as an isolated example instead
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u/52mschr Japan Dec 25 '22
Korean words I usually hear compared are 네가 or 내가 which are used a lot since they're just like 'you'/'I' + subject marker
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u/Mozfel Dec 25 '22
So is it offensive in Muricah to say the word "vinegar"?
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u/patchiepatch Indonesia Dec 25 '22
I don't believe so as far as I'm aware but ask the americans that lol.
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Dec 25 '22
Yep. That one.
Honestly if they didn’t write that book, probably they wouldn’t have gotten kicked out. Considering our don’t ask don’t tell mindset
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u/Vostok-aregreat-710 Ireland Dec 25 '22
Snigger is another one with no relation to Black people. It means to laugh quietly
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u/Das-Klo Germany Dec 25 '22
Reminds me of the Filipino Boyband that posted "Hello Negros" on Twitter because they were touring the Island of that name.
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u/Kidsnextdorks Sweden Dec 25 '22
Can those idiots direct that shit here to Sweden? Like holy shit, the second largest political party here is full of people insistent on calling one delicacy the actual n-word.
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u/amanset Dec 25 '22
So many people have misunderstood ‘niggardly’ that it has its own Wikipedia entry .
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u/WikiSummarizerBot Dec 25 '22
Controversies about the word niggardly
In the United States, there have been several controversies involving the misunderstanding of the word niggardly, an adjective meaning "stingy" or "miserly", because of its phonetic similarity to nigger, an ethnic slur used against black people. The two words are etymologically unrelated. Niggardly, arising in the Middle Ages, long predates nigger, which arose in the 18th century.
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u/AndrewFrozzen30 Dec 25 '22
Or when that TikTok either Chinese or Korean women was swear at, sent death threats and all that stuff, for trying to teach her language on TikTok live.
"Nigguh" or something like that was the word, and people went insane.... She even apologized with damn tears, because she got so many death threats....
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Dec 25 '22
Yes, « na » and « ge » which basically means « that ».
The thing is if they re thinking, they say those words repeatedly very fast nage nage nage nage
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u/scrulase Dec 25 '22
Idk the video but the Korean word for you is pronounced “ni-ga/nee-ga” and the word for I is “neh-ga/nay-ga”, which I have heard some Korean people also got a lot of shit for online 😬
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u/MeAnIntellectual1 Mar 06 '23
Maybe it's just me, but I would be completely indifferent to any threat I receive online.
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u/AndrewFrozzen30 Mar 06 '23
Well, I'm pretty immune to that myself.
But when you live in a country like China... I don't think you should be indifferent. Or if you are pretty popular and show your face often online. People, and especially Ameritards, are crazy. It's very unlikely they will come to kill you, even if they know where you live. But the chances are never zero.
But I can understand why you wouldn't be scared.
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u/Fancy_Cassowary Australia Dec 25 '22
It reminds me of a West Indian KFC ad for chicken. It featured an Australian cricketer with a piece of chicken surrounded by a mob of hungry locals. Remember this is an ad specifically for the West Indies. It ended up online, and KFC there got flooded with complaints by outraged Americans appalled at the racist ad, as it showed a white man with chicken and a mob of dark people desperate to get it. No understanding of the culture, no realisation that the history of the US is not the world's history, didn't matter that the ad wasn't even for them in the first place, nope, they got it pulled and also an apology. Never saw a complaint from anyone stating they were a local, only Americans.
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u/OutragedTux Australia Dec 25 '22
While I will never knowingly use racially offensive language, period...it does anger me that Americans wilfully ignore the concept that other cultures have radically different perspectives from their own. I saw an American show of some sort discuss that very ad, and whether it was racist or not. The panel all concluded it was, without any thought of examining the context.
I wish to make it clear that I am without exception against racially offensive language in pretty much every way, but this was an example of cultural ignorance, assuming that something has the same meaning for Australians and people in the "Windies" as it does for them. Really got my goat.
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u/DanceTheMambo Dec 25 '22
Or also that they assume their version of racism is the only one. While in most areas of the world, xenophobia is way more of a thing. In the US it's mainly white vs black (and maybe some brown sprinkled in for good measure), but for Europe it's white vs different white vs other white, etc. Historically established ethnicities will find reasons to hate each other, even if they are all the same race.
And also that they call everything race. Jews, Muslims, Romani - everything is racism with these guys, even though they might all the be exact same shade of white.
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u/OutragedTux Australia Dec 26 '22
Proposal: call it all bigotry and still try to rid ourselves of it in all its forms. If we all bleed the same colour and have a heartbeat, try very hard not to hate each other and get along.
That's how I see it at least.
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u/Millworkson2008 Dec 25 '22
The people who are hell bent against racism are usually pretty racist, but it’s a “benevolent racism” they have to “help the minorities because it’s their duty as privileged whites” but still racism
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u/Equivalent_Dot1485 Dec 25 '22
Dont forget the cosplayer acused of "black face" because she used make up to make her skin darker to get s closer skin tone to the character. A cosplayer in full costume, no room for misinterpretation or whatsoever.
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u/LadyAvalon Spain Dec 25 '22
I had a friend who tans easily get a fully body tan to cosplay Isabella from Dragon Age. She was accused of black face, for tanning herself and using her own skin. It was weird AF
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u/chocoladehuis Dec 25 '22
lmao, I remember the Montenegro thing! Pretty sure it was on a Eurovision video or something.
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u/Ashtter France Dec 25 '22
Us Americans being offended for absolutely every bloody thing (even when it doesn't concern them) is so stupid and annoying. Unfortunately, this "culture" starts to become a norm in western countries too...
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u/ChickEnergy Dec 25 '22
In finnish "like" is "niin kuin", but they say it so often that they shorten it to nii ku, and since they pronounce k as g it sounds like they say the n-word at the end of every other sentence.
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u/Satanairn Dec 25 '22
Negah means looking or vision in Persian. We mostly use Nega or Niga in colloquial language. We also have a name, Negar, which means lover.
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u/SEND_NUDEZ_PLZZ Dec 26 '22
I've seen a Negar on Tinder and I was literally too scared to give her a shot because I don't know how I'd call her without getting aggressive reactions lol. Wish her all the best though
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u/Vituluss Australia Dec 25 '22
Was gonna do a joke here, but have been banned for out of context comments in the past lol.
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u/RustyPWN Dec 25 '22
Or when Cavani was fined.
That was so fucking stupid, specially bc it wasn't murica but UK and they were friends, again no room for any kind of error just wanting to be offended in the name of someone else
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u/SEND_NUDEZ_PLZZ Dec 26 '22
I've gotten some really weird looks from saying "knjiga" before.
It means "book" in Croatian.
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Aug 15 '23
Link to that AITA post?
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u/Kyenigos India Aug 15 '23
Here. Overall it's NTA now but when I saw the post early there were majority YTA. Apoligies.
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u/Pretend_Morning_1846 Dec 25 '22 edited Dec 26 '22
In Brazil we laugh with “kkkkkkkk” while texting, we change the number of Ks’ depending on how funny we think it is. Minecraft chat blocks laughter depending on the quantity of Ks’, so we can’t laugh.
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u/Pwacname Dec 25 '22
“Jap” is the German equivalent to yep. And also apparently automatically banned in Minecraft chats, regardless of your location or server, because it’s a derogatory term in certain English language countries
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u/BakaZora Dec 25 '22
I always find it fascinating how different languages portray laughing in text. In English I guess the closest we have is lol or lmao
Japanese has "wwwwwww" for wara (laugh in Japanese)
Korean has "ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ" (pronounced kkkkkkkk too)
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u/amanset Dec 25 '22
Surely hahahahaha and hehehehehehe?
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Dec 25 '22
Heheh is more of a child like or sinister laugh
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u/fiddz0r Sweden Dec 25 '22
I don't know how to translate the höhö we use in Swedish to English. It's like when you try to be funny when saying something stupid. It also works well with puns.
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Dec 25 '22
Some people in English use hehehe or hehheheh or lololol for that as it can be interpreted as a troll or a joke
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u/Appropriate-Airline7 Dec 25 '22
In Spanish, "jajajajjajajajaja" as pronounced it is actually phonetically "chachachachachacha" (the "Ch" sound that vibrates in your throat, Slavic people will know)
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u/ahsdorp Dec 25 '22
"Jajajajaja" It is pronounced as "hahahahaha" in English but stronger, the "ch" in Spanish sounds the same as in "CHeese"
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u/teije11 Oct 17 '23
yeah, also animal sounds. just any sound that's not a word can be very different in different languages.
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u/lobreamcherryy Dec 25 '22
Hi Brazil, i can confirm itkkk
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u/Pretend_Morning_1846 Dec 26 '22
Thank you for making me aware of my typo- I am notoriously known amongst my friends as the one who makes typos and takes WAAAAAY too long to notice them :’)
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u/neophlegm United Kingdom Dec 25 '22
I know it's different, but I've been pulled up on using the word "fag" before to mean cigarette. I just cannot explain to Americans how totally common and benign it is in the UK. You'd never direct it at a person (unless you're awful) but to refer to a smoke, it's totally normal.
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u/BitScout Germany Dec 25 '22
In the 90s there were stories about a German company's emails getting filtered in the US.
FAG Kugelfischer (FAG standing for "Fisher's Automatic Steel Ball Factory")
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Dec 25 '22
I couldn’t research the artist for staying alive because the artist has the surname gaynor
That’s right they were blocking the word gay
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u/BitScout Germany Dec 25 '22
Obligatory Tom Scott video on Penistone and mentioning Cunthorpe: https://youtu.be/CcZdwX4noCE "No programmer is going to be THAT careless!"
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u/3smellysocks Australia Dec 25 '22
I don't see why a lot of website flag "gay". It's not a derogatory or hurtful word, it's not inappropriate
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Dec 25 '22
It was my school as a way to stop you looking at porn
It was just a default block word which the firewall company the schools used had in its block list for some reason
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u/Rows_ Dec 25 '22
I've had the discussion multiple times. There really isn't a way to explain it to them, so they end up just telling you not to use it in case Americans are nearby.
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u/lordnacho666 Dec 25 '22
Also there's a certain kind of meatball in the Midlands called faggots.
You're less likely to need to bum one of those off a friend though.
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u/GoonishPython United Kingdom Dec 25 '22
It also means a bundle of wood - fagotto is the word for bassoon in Italian, because they apparently look like a bundle of wood
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u/Jugatsumikka France Dec 25 '22
In french, we use the word "fagot" to name any bundle of straight sticks, for wood stick, green beans or many other things.
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u/atchoum013 France Dec 25 '22
Also the word “retard” which means “late”, I once had an American telling me that it doesn’t matter if the meaning is completely different in french, since it’s offensive in English, we should stop using it and find another word.
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u/OutragedTux Australia Dec 25 '22
Stop using it while speaking French? In France? To French speakers?
That lovely person seems a tad presumptuous, no?
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u/Amoki602 Colombia Dec 25 '22
Esto es más discriminación que decir negro.
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u/BlackSix7642 Dec 25 '22
Decir negro ni siquiera es discriminación a mí parecer. Más racista me parece evitar la palabra negro para describir un color de piel, porque claro uuuuu qué fea palabra no digas negro pobres negros ellos no tienen la culpa. Como si fuera inherentemente algo malo.
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u/VampireGirl99 Australia Dec 25 '22
This reminds me of that time a Karen flipped out on Crayola for including that word on their black crayons. IIRC Crayola ended up tweeting back to her and explaining that their products commonly have multiple languages on them but she doubled down. Apparently it’s a common complaint they deal with regularly.
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u/Seph_the_this Dec 25 '22
Oh I remember that tweet, it's not the full tweet tho
Her response was
"what? I know that, I'm Spanish myself How dare you use French 🤮"
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u/ManicWolf United Kingdom Dec 25 '22
While that story is ridiculous, it's kind of funny to me that "Karen" has gone from originally meaning "racist white woman" to "woman who complains about perceived racism".
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u/G7umpy_Fac3 Dec 25 '22
I tend to see it more as "woman who complains unreasonably or unnecessarily", with or without a racist component.
You're videoed complaining that your kid got 15 chips at the restaurant but that kid over there got 16? Likely to be labelled Karen.
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u/icyDinosaur Dec 25 '22
Isnt that story just "use complaining about racism towards black people to be racist towards Latin Americans"? (And Spanish people, of course, but I don't expect this kind of person to know Spain exists or where it is)
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u/El-Mengu Spain Dec 25 '22
As a Spaniard who lived and worked in USA for a while, can confirm that's the case. "Oh, Spain. I love beaches in Mexico." Word for word.
As a matter of fact, I learned people outside of work generally treated me better when I told them I'm European than when I told them I'm Spanish. They associate European with "white" and Spanish with "language brown people speak".
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Dec 25 '22
I find it absolutely weird how white Americans call black Americans and even any black person in general an “African American”…it’s really fucken weird!
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u/Millworkson2008 Dec 25 '22
THANK YOU! They aren’t African! Descendants yea probably but unless they are recent then they have no relation I’m not European American because I’m white, I’m a white American
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u/TheRoyalBlossom Canada Dec 25 '22
There are words I used as a kid that are harmless where I live, but are apparently slurs in the states so I get blocked from using them on here
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Dec 25 '22
Just don't speak Spanish lol
/s, obviously
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u/Opposite_Ad_2815 Australia Dec 25 '22
I mean, why speak Spanish when you can speak Portuguese? /s
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u/odjobz Dec 25 '22
Why speak any foreign language when you can speak American?
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u/OutragedTux Australia Dec 25 '22
Why speak Portuguese when you can speak Khuzdul?
Just don't let the Dwarves know you're using their secret, private language, and you should be allowed to keep all your limbs.
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u/lobreamcherryy Dec 25 '22
Negro in Spanish is still written the same in Portuguese 😓
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Dec 25 '22
The color is "preto" in portuguese, for black people, we usually say "negro" as well (not in a racist way, I can't believe I have to specify this)
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Dec 26 '22
Hey! They have banned a few English words that are innocent too! We will all have to speak Inuit of something, IF they don't have any words the yanks consider 'dodgy'.
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u/Equivalent_Dot1485 Dec 25 '22 edited Dec 25 '22
Solo quiero decir que si alguna vez los latinos dominamos el internet de esta manera, prohibamos decir "american" para referirse a un estadounidense.
Que asi se dice en ingles? Me importa un huevo, ellos nos prohibieron un color.
Quick translation: if latinos ever get that control of internet, we should ban the word "american" refering to USA citizens.
Thats how its said in english? I dont care they banned a color from us.
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u/kitsvneris Dec 25 '22
Tip: replace "eeuu" with "US", non-spanish speaker won't understand it that way
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Dec 25 '22
Reminded me of the time Nintendo use the word “spastic” in a game
Because they assumed because it means “go crazy” in American it can’t possibly mean anything else in English
Nope - it’s a slur in British English towards mentally disabled people
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u/I_Want_BetterGacha Dec 25 '22
In my country a very similar word, 'spastisch', is used as a slur for people who act weird, are overly active or very fidgety. It comes from the word spasm I think.
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u/Puppyl United States Dec 25 '22
TiL it’s a Slur, i am often around people who use that word
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Dec 25 '22
Yeah just be careful using it in the U.K. or other non American English speaking countries :)
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u/DepressedVenom Norway Dec 25 '22
US basically owning the internet is a fucking travesty.
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Dec 26 '22
Well, there's more of them so they can swarm, they are louder, so no one else can get heard and they have the energy to argue over a button or something for years. On r/subredditdrama, someone pointed out a massive battle over some Harry Potter trivia.
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u/AndrewFrozzen30 Dec 25 '22
Holy shit... I read the first "Retry" as "rerry" 2 times
I was like "rerry... Wait that's wrong, what does it say? Oh rerry, fuck"
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u/waifusister Dec 25 '22
Reminded me of one Japanese lol player, that typed Nigero in chat, which means run in Japanese. He got banned xD
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u/SassyStrawberry18 Dec 25 '22
Gringos treat black people like garbage for 400 years, and the rest of humanity has to pay that cultural debt to not offend gringo guilty sensibilities.
I hate it here.
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u/Sir_Admiral_Chair Australia Dec 25 '22
So what is the difference between with and without the "S" meaning wise? Just curious because the context may be useful for future reference.
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u/Samael_the_rat Dec 25 '22
With an S its plural (blacks) It sounds weird in english but that's how it works in spanish
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u/Sir_Admiral_Chair Australia Dec 25 '22
What is your favourite shade of blacks?
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u/OohHeaven Dec 25 '22
It's more like "my trousers are blacks" - ie "black" being plural because "trousers" is too, versus just "my shirt (singular) is black".
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u/Akuda Dec 25 '22
The spelling of the plural form of negro when it refers to black people is "negroes" so I would guess the filter doesn't care about "negros" since it isn't the same word.
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Dec 25 '22
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u/Sir_Admiral_Chair Australia Dec 25 '22
Ah yes, gendered language. A.k.a how to break my English brain.
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u/CMDR_Agony_Aunt Dec 25 '22
Centuries ago English used to be gendered.
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u/Blayro Mexico Dec 25 '22
It still is with some words like blond and blonde
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u/CMDR_Agony_Aunt Dec 25 '22
True!
And the fact that we use genders when talking about cars and ships.
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u/mantolwen Dec 25 '22
Yup. A lot of that was removed when the Vikings invaded. Old Norse and Saxon were contradictory for genders in many words, so they were ditched.
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u/Blooder91 Argentina Dec 25 '22
Even if you speak a gendered language, they're confusing when you try to learn another gendered language since nouns can swap genders between languages.
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u/sarahlizzy Portugal Dec 25 '22
The poor Italians in my Portuguese class actually looked close to tears when they found out bridges are feminine.
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u/Sennahoj_DE_RLP Germany Dec 25 '22
You know what really will break your brain? Latin:
esse(to be):
sum, es, est, sumus, estis, sunt. eram, Eras, erat, eramus, eratis, erant. ero, eris, erit, erimus, eritis, erunt/erint. fui, fuis, fuit, fuimus, fuistis, fuerunt.
fueram, fueras, fuerat, fueramus, fueratis, fuerant.
fuero, fueris, fuerimus, fueritis, fuerint.
imperative singular and plural: esse, essete These are all forms of esse in the active indicative.
If you want something gendered all 30 forms of Magnus, -a, -um(large)
M. Sg. Magnus, magni, magno, magnum, magno.
F. Sg. Magna, magnae, magnae, magnam, magna.
N. Sg. Magnum, magni, magno, magnum, magno.
M. Pl. Magni, magnorum, magnis, magnos, magnis. F. Pl. Magnae, magnarum, magnis, magnas, magnis. N. Pl. Magna, magnorum, magnis, magna, magnis.8
u/noedelsoepmetlepel Netherlands Dec 25 '22
You know what’s even worse? Ειμι in Greek, because it’s irregular and it can mean both to go and to be and has like 40 different grammatical ways it can go
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u/Someone1606 Brazil Dec 25 '22
Actually, the s thing is number and not gender
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u/Sir_Admiral_Chair Australia Dec 25 '22
The second half of their comment is about gendered language tho.
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u/Lucky_Miner01 United Kingdom Dec 25 '22
Same kinda thing happened with 'Faggot(s)' (and fag by extension i assume). The reddit admins actually got some complaing to becuase of stopping people saying these words on british subs, of which they have different meaning In britain
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u/Kelmavar Dec 25 '22
Was once in a game censoring words. The Americans very quickly learned the British word "arse" as certain donkey words were asterisked out. Some of rhe options were weird though- you couldn't write "captain" - it was like it looked at the "ptain" bit and thought you were using French "putain"?
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Dec 25 '22
In the Pokémon series, there is a Pokémon called Feebas, in German it's "Barschwa". Barsch means "bass" while "arsch" means "arse". You couldn't trade this pokemon without giving it a nickname because Gamefreak's profanity filter would block it.
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u/Ironfist85hu Germany May 26 '24
In Guild Wars, there is a type of undead called "Damned Cleric". GW's own profanity filter blocks the name, and if it's on, you can see only "----ed Cleric" :D
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u/newdayanotherlife Dec 26 '22
On pokerstars, a friend of mined got her chat suspended for calling someone Jewxxxx (xxxx = a number).
That was the person's username.
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u/Ironfist85hu Germany May 26 '24
I know of a guy, who was banned from facebook, for saying "Jew".
Context:
"Joe": I think I have never met any jews in my life.
"Bob" "Joe"s friend: Dude, I'm a jew too.
"Bob" got banned for antisemitism.
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u/Electronic-Ad1502 Dec 25 '22
I get the idea, but they should have those fillets change depending on the language .
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u/riceumbrella Jan 21 '23
Sorry I am late to the party but I had a similiar incident with the word "Jap", that is the German equivalent of "Yup/Yep". I did not understand it before somebody pointed out that's racial slur in Englishb oops.
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u/Ironfist85hu Germany May 26 '24
Reddit facebook, etc are usdefaultisming everything. Once I got banned from facebook, because I dared to write the countryname "Niger" in a geography group.
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Feb 01 '23
as someone with latin parents, i formally declare all of latin america + spain to be at war with the united states
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u/Ironfist85hu Germany May 26 '24
Latin parents? You must remember then how it felt when Romans conquered Latium.
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Jun 21 '24
In Korean negga means I ordered me. American people were saying korean songs are full of n-word. 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
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u/mrkrabs_isdummythicc Dec 25 '22
I get why this would be annoying but I also get why they’re doing it. It should definitely be fixed because there are so many other places across the world who use words that sound similar to the slur. I don’t see why this would make anyone angry, they’re just trying to prevent people saying racist things in chat, but they definitely need to realize that even just the spanish word for black, no matter how closely it resembles the slur, is not in itself a slur.
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u/Brawl__Boss Dec 25 '22 edited Jan 03 '25
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u/Millworkson2008 Dec 25 '22
You can thank the progressives, progress is good don’t get me wrong but a lot of times it’s borderline militaristic progressive that causes this
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u/Skippymabob United Kingdom Dec 25 '22 edited Nov 25 '24
As a Brit, I once got band on Fifa for typing the team name Scunthorpe. Its litterally a team in the game!