Almost no kid in the netherlands ever thought that way tbh honestly i hope they just get it over with and go with soot covered piets cuz they go through a chimney that would fix it all. As in soot/ash spots over them instead of a full black face. Cuz these days that whole discussion is ruining it for children just change it and move on done.
Same here. In Spain this kind of costumes (with the painted face) were quite common during the carnival party in February (maybe they still are, I haven't attended to the party for a few years). The same way we have another public holiday on December where 3 disguised guys give presents to the child, one of them is black-skinned and as in many little towns or cities there's no volunteer to do the job, most of the times someone paints his face (the role is always a male, at least traditionally).
Same thing for me, in my country (Chile) I'm sure that pretty much no one knows about this topic, here that would just be considered a "normal" cosplay, I understand why this is bad, but not everyone knows about stuff.
Nope. Here in Panama seems to be a tradition, something I didn't know until today. And we were basically a US colony while the gringos still had the Canal.
I dunno, I've seen too many people do dumb as hell shit for views. I could be being too cynical ofcourse but it's hard to shake the feeling it's a stunt.
Guys, I know it's so easy bringing a torch up but come on.
If you are cosplayer you should have heard about it. I'm not american either and I know what blackface is
Children don't think like that because children aren't born racist. Zwarte Piet is not the only example in the world, but it keeps coming up because there is an innate refusal to acknowledge and modernize it to the benefit of minorities and harmed groups.
Of course there is racism in all over of the world.
Russia is one of the most racist countries on the planet, a super Nazi country where black men that date white women are living in fear of their life, fucking nonsense
People keep saying this, but if there's no cultural conception of why something might be bad in a country where there is much less awareness of what this is in the first place, why would someone look up the cultural connotations and history of something which, to them, is just a random element of their cosplay?
The problem is that a lot of them get super defensive when it's explained and continue to do it, they pull the "well, it's not racist in my country"(why?) even when it's explained to them
I wasn't refering to you. I'm talking in general because this is very common for europeans, especially eastern europeans for some reason
well that explains why the dude is still single lol despite being kinda rich.This is the liberal Dutch prime minister next to someone with the traditional 'black pete' face paint. Not a cry was heard.
A lot of educating has to be done.
That's one of the dumbest, most imperialistic shit i've ever read. No, the world isn't magically linked to the United States, and mainstream american media that gets exported doesn't usually address blackface, no. No, the random average Lithuanian won't have any idea whatsoever of what blackface is. The ban is absolutely fair and hopefully she has been sucessfully educated about it now.
It's only every week we have a thread on some idiot ding blackface
There's been dozens and dozens of stories of this exact same damn thing happening over and over and over again and people have the gall to say oh but people in other countries don't know! Sure.
Plenty of non americans know and have learned that it is bad. It's not some super obscure thing and cosplayers should know about it since is a discussion in the community
Sorry, but I have a few black acquaintances in Moscow who date Russian girls. And they had as much problems as their Russian colleagues. They just don't blame it on racism as people get punched / stabbed / hit a lot in Russia no matter what nationality you are.
The whole world isn't on Era. It wasn't until I got on Reddit that I learned what blackface was, most people in the rest of the world legit don't know. You can still surprise some people today by explaining that the n word is offensive.
