Uh, that first picture isn’t a real person. It’s that super-creepy statue that’s causing controversy on the campus of Wellesley College.
But anyway…I’m as pale as they come ,but I had a black great-great grandparent and I hate the cold. Coincidence?
Wow! I just said that “Anecdotes are now facts, didn’t I? because I used a quotation” didn’t I?
Don’t be so quick to be rude; and your “Apparently…reasons”, uh, whatever, it’s certainly no anecdote or fact, is no less preposterous than my post.
Grow up, calm down, and become wise and well-mannered.
Exactly as I swore an oath to the high heavens that it would. Good catch.
Not sure how this is such an unfamiliar stereotype. It’s a stereotype that, as handsomeharry suggested, is commonly joked about by black people ourselves.
Well, it’s more a stereotype about white people inordinately enjoying the cold. Wearing shorts and flip flops during 40 degree weather, indulging in Polar Bear foolishness, standing shirtless in Lambeau Field in December with a K painted across you, etc. The subtext being, ‘Uh uh, not me/us.’
It’s pretty common ‘black people do this/white people do that’ humor really, now to the point of cliche. Not so much that black people desperately flee cold weather but that, according to stereotype, we certainly have no passion for it.
Immigrants from warmer places certainly (and understandably) have less tolerance for the cold, and often pass that on to their children by bundling them up for the arctic when it’s actually quite mild, leading those children to continue doing the same when they’re adults, especially if they live in an area with a lot of other such immigrants. They then bundle their kids up more. There must, however, come a point where that stops, though.
When I look out of my window to try and see how cold it is, if I took notice of the darker-skinned people’s clothing then I’d go out in way too many layers for me. But I live in an area with a lot of first, second and third generation immigrants. God, some of them will be wearing hats and scarves in high summer when paler people are digging out their shorts and flip-flops.
But I’m not sure how this would perist for as many generations as there have been black people in America. In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s false. So it’s not completely and utterly baseless but it doesn’t actually make sense in the context it was used in.
You are telling me to be “wise.”
Really?
The " apparently"represented a vague number of African Americans who are now living in the Northern Tier. That’s an approximation as the number increases or decreases daily. That would not be an “anecdote.” The two terms aren’t even close.
Please learn how to use a dictionary before you comment.
It might help YOU sound wiser.
I grew up in a racially integrated neighborhood in a Rust Belt city that was about 30% black. During my time living there, and on visits back home, I noticed that blacks have more of a tendency to dress in seasonally inappropriate attire – usually heavy winter clothing during the fall and spring, and sweatshirts and long-sleeved urban wear during the summer – than whites. Some whites did the shorts-in-winter thing, but was mostly among the outdoorsy and preppy/collegiate crowds.
Whether wearing parkas in June is just some kind of fashion statement, “to hide guns and drugs” as I’ve heard some say, or a legitimate response to feeling chilly when it’s 70F outside, I don’t know.
Oh, I see…I’m glue, you’re rubber…
Listen, just don’t be rude, and you won’t have to play the silly games.
You must learn to read…I didn’t say you used an anecdote…what are you going on about in re: ‘anecdotes’???
Again, you are too ready to jump on me because you have some bone to pick, and are too quick to jump all over somebody because you think that this will give you some sort of self-affirmation, or something.
Just read, then reflect before starting shit, or being snarky when there is no need.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/75755682@N05/8201745937/
As with most cultures you see mainly the poor and disadvantaged.
As you can see from the picture I’m kinda dark, while my wife is kinda fair, while our daughter is somewhere in between. My wife has some Chinese blood in her, I think, while I’m likely pure Malay stock. I call my kid ‘Diego’ and I often use it as a common noun (‘The Diego’ get it?)
There are mestizas in the Philippines who look European; living in old rich districts, desperately clinging to what’s left of their Spanish/American heritage, and net worth.
No bad blood from me, OK?
How do you know those aren’t all white supremacists?
Posted on non-hate websites? :rolleyes:
Those are the sneaky white supremacists, I guess.