NOTE, iām still not sure how to hide (blurout) images or blocks of text on this platform.
If someone decides to find my post offensive. Iāll happily take it down. Its never at all my intention to offend absolutely no one. I love you all!
Oh my! Me too, I love to explore other minds and challenge mine to see if I can understand beyond my cultural blockage, perhaps I am way too much detached from a single mindsetā¦
Is a tad long, and you donāt have to waste your time reading all this, but iāll leave it here as I do enjoy talking to someone. This covid has kept me all year without meeting people, I take all the talk I can lol, here we goā¦
I donāt completely dismiss what you are trying to say.
I was born in a super small town on the country side of Mexico.
Grew up hating gay people, we would yell offensive crap to anyone who was even just a little feminine looking or not the āmachoā image we were all supposed to be, thinking that a girl who had sex with someone before me was worthless of my respect, etc, etc, etc, all the macho thing, never seen an Asian or Black person in my life. Rarely any blondie in town.
The first time I actually meet a black person was a church minister that was traveling trough our town. He shake my hand and to be 100% legit honest I felt somewhat disgusted, not even kidding, I literally gagged a little, like 4 real. He was very tall and his hands where so big and his skin very thick, his voice tone, the facial hair, damn even his body odor was a whole different thing, not that he smelled bad, but not pleasant either, my body reacted so strange automatically and my first thought was, I donāt know what happened here but I need to go wash my hand. He saw my freaking shock reaction obviously. But then he look at me with the most kind eyes ever, and touch my shoulder and asked me with his deep voice while smiling, āhow are you brother?ā DAMN FML, I felt like a complete damn ass completely ashamed of my own damn reaction. He was working with a group of people in building schools for poor people. And holly F, poor āhardworkingā mexicans couldnāt keep up with him. I saw a straight up leader, someone with passion and compassion for people that wasnāt even of his own ākindā, hardworking as hell, kind, warm hearted, gentile and loving. Then I heard other guys making jokes and talking behind his back about how black people this and that, and I couldnāt feel more disgusted to be part of that ācultureā.
Then moved to Texas, the fake cowboy crap, horses, big trucks, all the fat people and the hardcore ākarensā everywhere. Moved to California to become a photographer, buahahaha one of my best friends there was a designer who was gay!!! he took me to damn pride event in SF and saw friken body builder dudes who could squeeze me with their pinky finger holding hands walking completely naked (except shoes) on the street, I thought to myself, (hahaha go ahead and try to yell something offensive to those two??? hell no, I wanna live). The designer was a super funny dude, and patient to explain me all my ādoubtsā about āhis kindā. He loved to have fun of me and to freak me out every time he could with his shocking comments. We worked in many amazing projects together and love him like my own family.
And now in Japanā¦ canāt even start to tell you how many āculture shocksā iāve had. And absolutely, to become āsomewhatā accepted, I had to drop many ways of thinking that I had when I was in mexico, or america, and I had to learn to understand their culture (in each place I go). And pretty much forget about my own concepts of what I think is right or wrong, learn to see people for what they feel their are, and not for what I think they should be.
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You asked me what do I think about a person with a āGolliwogā tattoo, well, first of all, thank you for the link cuz Iām almost 40 and I just learned that that old cartoonish image of a black person is called that. What do I think? Nothing really. Iām not offended or really cared for what that image means to some people. I get it if someone wants to see it offensive, but to me, I donāt mind, I can just step aside and let the one who wants to have that tattoo have it and the one who wants to get offended be offended. Depiction of mohammed? the boxer? the god? oh no, thats mohamma?, the guy who was in jail or something? idk. Probably would think is a relative or a singer they like? I think the peopleās actions matter more than what they wear on their bodies or whats painted on their skins.
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I mentioned on a post up there, the Asian Swastika (å and å) are not angled like the Nazi one, but I get your point, when I came to Japan and saw a map where it showed temples depicted as Swastikas I was shocked until someone told me, lol noooo nazis tilt theirs 45 degrees.
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Poop image is not āde-culturizedā in Japan at all. Itās still called Unchi, and is a cute word for kids, the character or references to it, still keep appearing with the same meaning as they did before the emoji was invented even up to this day in anime, movies, tv drama and games.
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I donāt know what means by āsupport of african-american communityā by using an image of a cartoonish exaggerated black peopleās features.
There was a pokemon Jinx that when it appeared in Japan had the exact same features.
To bring the franchise to America they decided that this pokemon ācouldā be considered racist and they decided to change the color to purple.
More even, a lot of Japanese anime depicts black people like this.
Just look at the work of Akira Toriyama, even in Dragon Ball with the character Mr Popo (bottom middle) who is basically a āservantā of a āgodā like figure dressed up like a āgenieā which was a slave.
Is he āracistā? In the meaning that he believes that the āblackā race is inferior and the ā¦ what? yellow race is superior and all that crap? I donāt think so. Can some people be offended? Probably yeah.
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I think that before accusing someone of what we perceive their intentions are, we should really learn what they are coming from. Someone with a Nazi swastica, I would be more insterested in knowing why he has some symbol that many could consider offensive? If his answer is Hail Hittler then ok, he is a fanatic, perhaps dangerous? or just a fool who wants attention.
Same with the āblackfaceā?
All asians look alike, fuck, some of them even think so themselves. All mexicans wear sombrero, all Japanese know karate, all people with a certain tattoo means this or thatā¦ is all pre-judging and Iām not in favor of that.
If their intentions are really to harm or offend, then thats another story.
My ex is Vietnamese and her father who barely knew english used to call me āburritoā.
I felt kinda offended, or like I should be offended, but many days he would bring me something from the store, or cook something special for me, or chill and drink a beer and offer me one. He meant absolutely no harm, at the contrary he was always supper supportive and I learned to push away my own mental blockage of what I think calling me āburritoā supposed to mean.
In spanish a āburroā is a donkey and is usually referred as an idiot, burrito is like saying ālittle idiotā, so you can imagine how āoffensiveā that was supposed to feel every time that he calls me āhey burrito, you, beer, with me?ā, u know what, F my real name, lets enjoy a friendly company I decided, and it was fun and very enjoyable our time together.
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So after all those experiences, I canāt judge someone just for having a nazi symbol or exaggerated featured black face tattoo, much less for having some design he liked from somewhere else.
I was accepted and loved even with my āoffensiveā behavior countless times. I learned to stop being so ādelicateā with how I perceive other people.
meanin, thatās ranked up by google in an instant.
The stress in the last few weeks has been off the charts
was there the whole time! Thank you!
this much of tattoos.
I donāt know about it.
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