An entire imgur album and its barely scratching the surface of millions and millions of hilarious stories https://imgur.com/a/msAbb2m
They act all embarassed and awkward when they go and its people wanna take pics of them and hand their babies to them and hahaha im just a blonde blue eyed tall white im just a silly foreigner i dont get the big deal hahaha. But whether they are aware of it or not the Hitler Particles lodged within their bodies vibrate with joy when the wacky Asians hand their children to them and want pictures and say how envious they are of their white skin and do everything but suck them off. They act like the ppl are crazy but they secretly love that shit. Every r*ddit thread about visiting Asia or even even the Middle east, occasionally even Africa is full of people with anecdotes about being treated like royals for being blonde and blue-eyed in Asia. All of them have an anecdote even in completely unrelated topics (like the comment on a post about a kid wanting to pet someones dog) whether its real or fake. If its fake thats even worse because they are fantasizing about it. Japanese call this bihaku, the indians call it fair and lovely just like the name of the skin-whitening cream unilever flooded the country with, theres a million names for it all over asia. Euro/White/CANZUK etc tourists in Asia love the internalized colorism no matter how hard they go chris pratt voice well this is awkward, not only does it make them feel like theyre the ones being treated like circus animals as some kind of equilibrium between them and for example the Phillipines human zoos, they also love how it strokes their egos in that demented way
Have you seen the trend of videos that act like a white person speaking a foreign language is a super power?
WHITE guy AMAZES minority by SPEAKING THEIR LANGUAGE!! :soypoint-2:
Completely ignoring the fact the person theyre talking to is also fluent in English
White guy surprises Chinese kitchen staff by Speaking Chinese!
:so-true:
Latino guy goes to burger restaurant and speaks English!
:wojak-nooo:
my fave meme about this is (warning for self-harm/suicide)
spoiler
“clueless white guy shocks natives with senseless act of suicide”
but yeah tbh on this topic oriental pearl doesnt seem actually genuinely racist or a sexpat just kind of a naive weeb but that vid of her talking to the artisanal soap maker like a teacher talking to a little kid was annoying to watch
edit: one more thing about those videos i feel like half of them basically just know some generic phrases and they say theyre like some kind of polyglot like come on
Whites are pretty common in Asia these days. The movie star days are long gone.
When I first arrived in South Korea the positive and negative attention I got as a white-passing dude distressed me. I coped in some ways, by not trying to get a seat on the subway (since no one would sit near me even when it was crowded and everyone was desperate for a seat), and I would also turn away from everyone and read rather than notice all the old folks glaring at me. When I was in a really good mood I would sometimes greet these people in Korean or wave to them and they would usually warm up immediately. When I moved to a friendlier city that was actually more touristy, things got easier, but after my spouse and I had kids we would still have people sneaking up to take photos with them. (Racism directed toward our Black friends was also much more overt but it didn’t have the same threat of violence it does in the USA.) Kids at the playground would also treat us strangely if my spouse wasn’t around. Being able to speak the local language could make a real difference though. I think in most places it helps to humanize people and also shows a respect for local culture.
I am not white. When I was in China I was stopped by many randoms for photos. Its not just a white person thing.
Broke: staring at white people visiting your country out of adulation.
Woke: not staring at white people visiting your country because they’re nothing special.
Bespoke: staring at white people visiting your country because the last time your people took your eyes off the crackas, they murdered a bunch of your people and stole their land.
