what did you say as a child when you saw for the first time another skin/hair/eye complexion?
7 year old me, got to a sleepover with my family at a friend's house, he and his son were black, and i vaguely recall having this conversation
-"wow, i only saw people like you in the cartoons, how are you so black like this? is the sun really that strong?…if i stand in the summer outside forever will i become like that??? you look scary hahaha:p….why is everybody looking at me?….what??? but why would you feel angry by that?? its not like its a bad thing to look black, its just you! please no angry"
like wise when i discovered yellow hair exists i thought it must be fragile and too soft…i cringe about both of these decades later
Nothing. Maybe I saw different types of people from a young age and never thought much of it.
>>744213yeah, perhaps the TV aswell or saw a neighbor who looked too white or too dark and thought cool but not much else?
tbh i only became vaguely aware of race when a racist preachers son brought it up. prolly never wouldve comprehended it until much later
>>744213it's probably only a striking experience if you grew up in a very homogeneous place
I come from an interracial family, so I didn't have any issues with race before I became interested in Nazism
I'm not a Nazi now>>744231Same
>>744232I don't think so. If it was very homogeneous they would have grown up before meeting a black person and as an adult they would have known enough of the world not to be surprised by it. They have to be common enough for you to stumble upon them in childhood but not so common that they become part of your everyday life before that.