jean pierre

5y

Have you been there?

GoldLink

5y

I'm in china rn, if you ever come here expected to get ur personal space invaded multiple times wherever you go (e.g getting your photo taken without your permission or people constantly staring at you and I mean constantly)

You'll also get refused service from anything from taxis to hotels just not taking you in. When I first came here, the guy who helped me get settled didn't get time to book me a place to sleep beforehand for my first night, his first choice of hotel we get declined cause they flat out said they dont take black people

Last year when I came back I waited in a line with several other people to get taxi's, the taxi's would drive up and people would climb into any taxi they see, the first one i saw literally just shook his head when he saw me coming up to his taxi.. so I had to take the one after

I've heard other stories of people getting their hair or skin touched. Also black people are far more likely to get kidnapped and have their organs harvested than any other race of foreigners.

Abandoned Account

5y

Visited Japan for two weeks. Never encountered any racism just a few stares. The people were very kind and helpful. Beautiful place. I recommend going during spring.

GoldLink

5y

Please OP visit my country Namibia, trust me you'll meet some lovely people over there, my only issue with travelling in Namibia is that you'll encounter more white tourists than black tourists

GoldLink

5y

I really hope so because its on my bucket list, where did you travel in Japan?

Sonyomom

5y

When is the best time to go?

Abandoned Account

5y

Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto. Seeing the ancient temples was something else. Especially as the cherry blossoms started to fall I have some wild stories while I was there. I was going to visit again this year, but the virus canceled that for now.

GoldLink

5y

I'm in china rn, if you ever come here expected to get ur personal space invaded multiple times wherever you go (e.g getting your photo taken without your permission or people constantly staring at you and I mean constantly)

You'll also get refused service from anything from taxis to hotels just not taking you in. When I first came here, the guy who helped me get settled didn't get time to book me a place to sleep beforehand for my first night, his first choice of hotel we get declined cause they flat out said they dont take black people

Last year when I came back I waited in a line with several other people to get taxi's, the taxi's would drive up and people would climb into any taxi they see, the first one i saw literally just shook his head when he saw me coming up to his taxi.. so I had to take the one after

I've heard other stories of people getting their hair or skin touched. Also black people are far more likely to get kidnapped and have their organs harvested than any other race of foreigners.

GoldLink

5y

I was planning on going during the olympics with a friend but we might extend it to late next year

Replica

5y

Rotterdam’s a nice place

Charcoal Baby

5y

Yeah we were finna take a train there too for a day. When do they do that blackface celebration? Im just tryna avoid that

neodogged

5y

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been to China as well i think some of your views are over exaggerated but as far as personal space being invaded and the hair/skin touching more than a handful of times it's due to genuine curiosity and not out of maliciousness you have to remember in PRC they block a massive amount of free information including social media to the general public.

more than half of the chinese don't even have preconceptions of us bc the faint majority has never even seen us in person we're mythological to them in a sense bc the censorship in that country is rampant and if we're seen it's from a western stereotyped standpoint projected from a western film they've probably seen but more so 9 times outta 10 it's out of excitement.

regarding the organ harvesting bit i can attest to that when i was in Kyoto, Japan a dutch woman followed me like 5 blocks in broad daylight and i just thought it was the strangest thing i dipped on her quick and took the JR to Nara.

neodogged

5y

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been to China as well i think some of your views are over exaggerated but as far as personal space being invaded and the hair/skin touching more than a handful of times it's due to genuine curiosity and not out of maliciousness you have to remember in PRC they block a massive amount of free information including social media to the general public.

more than half of the chinese don't even have preconceptions of us bc the faint majority has never even seen us in person we're mythological to them in a sense bc the censorship in that country is rampant and if we're seen it's from a western stereotyped standpoint projected from a western film they've probably seen but more so 9 times outta 10 it's out of excitement.

regarding the organ harvesting bit i can attest to that when i was in Kyoto, Japan a dutch woman followed me like 5 blocks in broad daylight and i just thought it was the strangest thing i dipped on her quick and took the JR to Nara.

GoldLink

5y

which ones were over exaggerated?

Abandoned Account

5y

You have quite a few of them actually...

neodogged

5y

noticed in this thread some of y'all are overly wary of xenophobia in SE Asia that you are infact being xenophobic bc you're not reading the room properly in your environment while being present there i can promise you as a black man living in tokyo and has traversed all over SE asia there's really little to no static in my transgressions as a black man interacting w/ others all around overseas.

neodogged

5y

lol sounds like your friend was exposed to getting finessed in Thailand rather than experiencing racism he fell for something than got strip showed.

Thailand's goat would recommend Pattaya as far as I've been all over there's a huge black military/ex military presence spread out over Thailand so that's an odd deduction to me but ion wanna invalidate what your friend felt but to me it feel like he got finessed for just being a gullible tourist.

would recommend Kandy in Sri Lanka one of the coolest places you can possibly fade.