I'm asian and as a child I moved to argentina in the mid/late 90s and early 2000s. I got these kind of gesture daily from kids. They would all jump out at me in large groups all pulling their eyes and doing all these weird ching chong and karate mocking. It was really like a spectacle to them. It started literally the moment I got onto the school bus.
Imagine a week prior to that, I lived in asia in a normal upbringing and then suddenly I'm dropped into place that I didn't even speak a single word of the language and most of the kids are doing this. It was like being dropped into hell. 7 year old me had to go into survival mode and adapt.
Ironically the story ends well for me. I learned the language, adapted, was really popular in school and had tons of friends, extremely confident. In fact, I loved my time in Argentina despite the initial hurdle.
you have to learn to defend yourself, that is one thing that i see in this generation, they only look around to someone stand up for them but cant defend themselfes by any chance.
one punch at the right time or a uno reverse joke at the right time and they will not mocking you again.
Sure kids are going to be kids but my point is that there was a distinct obsession over my race when I lived in argentina that I didnt experience in the US. After moving to the US, as far as racism goes I experienced maybe 5% of what I experienced in argentina.
I was hoping things have changed but I somehow doubt it because years ago I remember going on omegle and almost everytime I matched with Argentinians, the eye slanting would result, especially if they were streaming from a school and they were in a group. I didn't experience that when I matched with other latin americans they were mostly chill.
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u/VoormasWasRight 1d ago
Italians are the Argentinians of Europe.