Never heard of it either (another black person checking in) but then I only have three first cousins. My kids on the other hand have cousins coming out the Wazoo.
Nope.
Most rich people make jokes about how any- and everyone who could possibly be a cousin will indeed clasim to be.
Count me as yet another person who’s never heard this or anything resembling it before.
Apparently you were the only person who thought of it. I’ve been accused of being oversensitive before, but my only reaction to the ad was “I sure don’t buy or receive gifts from all my cousins!” I’ve got so many first cousins I’m not even sure exactly how many there are…more than 14, though. In my family we just draw names.
I’ve never heard the cousins thing.
I’m from a white, agnostic family and 19 first cousins.
I saw that ad and it never crossed my mind that it was anything other than a bid to sell more fleece.
I didn’t think the woman being sung to was black either - I thought maybe she was latina or mixed race, but only now when I thought about it.
Never heard that stereotype. I have exactly 14 cousins. My husband has 24 – 31, if you count his 7 double cousins twice.
I haven’t ever heard it either. I’m white, and I probably have that many one each side of my family.
Never heard of this stereotype either.
FTR, I’m a white girl, with well over 30 cousins.
Another black person who has never heard the stereotype. But then, I only have 5 first cousins - only 2 of whom I have seen in the past 5 or so years (and only for a few hours, each), so I’m probably not buying presents for them.
Though the girl in the commercial looks, to me, as though at least one of her grandparents would have identified him/herself as black (or the equivalent for that time period).
I either missed the satire of your post or don’t understand why the actress needs to maintain some ethnic level of “blackness”. What are the requirements to join the self-loving black girl club?
Missed it, I’m sure. That entire post is satire, mimicking and mocking the OP, by going ridiculously further in finding racism where there wasn’t any.
‘Cuz’, or ‘cousin’ is actually a black culture reference to non-black people. The term is analogous to ‘Gentile.’ Black people use the term ‘Brotha’ or ‘Sista’ when referring to a fellow African-American, more or less. The phrase could only make sense literally.
Ditto. I would just like to add that the family isn’t Catholic or Mormon, either. Some people just have large families.
I haven’t heard of the stereotype either. The only people I know of who go around calling each other cousin when they’re not even related are characters in Shakespeare’s plays.
I thought it was the “american” indians that loved the uniball
I guess I’m out of touch.
I knew a guy in high school who thought Asians couldn’t hear crickets. Really. As far as I could tell, he was dead serious about it, and repeated his belief to several people. Including a Japanese friend of mine, who didn’t miss a beat in replying “What’s a cricket?”
As for the OP, count me as one more person who had never heard that particular stereotype about blacks. I’ve always heard that as a Catholic stereotype more than anything else. And, in my family’s case, it’s entirely accurate. My Irish Catholic mom has over one hundred first cousins.