• Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    “Asia is the most racist because I went there once and people stared at me and asked me for photographs”

    It’s funny but I remember when I went to an Asian country once I was actually eager to get myself photographed with a mall security guard all because he was a mall security guard armed with a combat shotgun; it was the coolest thing my eighteen year old self had ever seen. My sister was originally like “<evilsandwichman> no!”, but then she also wanted a photograph with him. Dude was a mall security guard with a combat shotgun, honestly coolest thing I’d seen by that point in my life.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      I’ve seen mall security guards with full on submachine guns and assault rifles like the Beretta MX4 and various Galil/R4/R5 variants, along with body armour.

      South Africa is something else at times.

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      I swear, white people made that shit up just so they can mental masturbate about the idea of other humans viewing them as literal gods.

      I have never met a single person from anywhere in Asia do that while in college, and the university I went to is pretty popular for international students.

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        Maybe if you go to tourist sites in China and it was 15 years ago? Considering tourist sites are visited by people from the countrysides

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        As an average looking mayo, I had tons of people asking to take my picture in the middle of Xi’an around 2016. I wasn’t there as a tourist though so we weren’t anywhere near the terracotta army or anything and were probably the only non-Chinese people to be at the rural temples and stuff we were visiting. I thought one guy was asking me to take his picture in front of a big mural, but he pulled me in for a selfie instead. I don’t think it was like “omg a white person” though as much as “omg a foreigner in my part of town”. If they weren’t so racist, someone in rural Arkansas (or wherever) would probably get excited about a Chinese person in their town just because its a rare circumstance.