Hi I’m from Europe and unfortunately in the past few years I realized how much racism there is in the world which really messes up my mind since that concept didn’t exist for me as a kid and I thought it’s normal that people look different.
Having very pale skin and not having visited too many countries I was wondering if I might encounter any problems in America because of my skin. Can I just talk to anyone or will people reject me because of my skin? (I have blond hair too)
So do Americans actually label people with different skin types as different “races”? That sounds a little radical
Some do. Some do not care. Of course some in europe would label German and French different - in the us both are white.
Categories most would recognize are ‘asian’, ‘black’, ‘white’, and sometimes ‘hispanic’ or ‘middle eastern’. Most people aren’t going to get much more specific than that.
Oh okay. I would call these ethnicities
Well… since “race” isnt a real thing, it is that too.
In my usage, ethnicity refers to somewhat socially-defined regional identities. Basically, what country/group is your ancestral origin. You might call this a nationality, but, to me, that implies I’m assuming you’re not a US national/citizen. This also gives a leeway to include ethnic groups not restricted to a particular country such as certain groups of Jews, nomadic groups like Romani, or sub-groups of countries like Sicilian.
But I really don’t ask often because it’s not really important and can easily be taken as an insult.
Yes that’s why I’m asking because I personally don’t look at people at how they look and just wanna make sure it’s the same in America because here in Europe I think they have quite a lot of racism and I’m not too sure about America