“I wasn’t clicking at you I said: Hi I hope you’re doing well, do you want some beer? In your language!”
Which reminds me of a situation I was in… I don’t like to assume people don’t speak English based on their appearance so when I was working as a technician I was at a place I’m unfamiliar with and saw a group of people and heard them speaking Spanish, but I started with English.
“Hi! Do you know where the bathroom is?”
“No, no Ingles, no Ingles.”
“Ok, donde estas el bano?”
“No Ingles, no Ingles…”
…but I’m speaking your language now! Lol
Yeah, but if the accent isn’t right, it doesn’t trigger your brain to realize it understands the words its hearing.
Where are you, the bathroom?
Todo el mundo pregunta dónde está el baño, nadie pregunta cómo está el baño.
Por qué es el baño?
Me amo
Is it because they were right? They know more about the geography of Africa than most folk in their region, and made an accurate, and importantly, educated guess? I have no idea what finale the reaction face is supposed to convey.
I interpreted it as shock that the dude who was making fun of him wasn’t the usual ignorant racist, but a surprisingly informed one.
professional racist
Oh man whats that Cotton Hill quote
This one? I was just thinking about this scene too.
Casual racism vs ranked competitive racism
Oh my goodness he’s like the Abed of racism
The guy who took Racism 102, perhaps even as an AP class while still in high school
Given the time difference, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s Dr. Racism, PhD. now.
Ah, like Daniel Radcliffe’s character in that one movie. When you believe all haters and bigots are ignorant, then bro drops, amid slurs, the most intricate background knowledge of Judea
measurehead
Cotton Hill.jpg
Same friend. To me it expressed “This dude really got it spot on” but im not entirely sure
Imagine it turns out he was using a racial slur against you in a click language, tho that still doesnt work cause as every person who reads a wiki page or two about click langauges should know that hadza and sandawe are the most northern ones and theyre spoken in tanzania which is much too southern for eritrea. Also theres dahalo but from what i undeestand it actually only uses clicks very infrequently. Please correct me if im wrong, i only read about language stuff on wikipedia in my free time lol
relevant Trevor Noah standup clip:
Who doesnt love some trevor noah. Xhosa is also another case(or more accurately isixhosa) where it is a full click language but it is a part of the atlantic-congo langauge family(proposed to be a part of the niger-congo family). Most click languages you hear in pop culture are from this family but many theories claim that these mainly borrowed clicks from the khoisan languages. The khoisan languages are contraversial because they used to be classified as the same language family but that was only based on very surface level analysis and they are much more correctly classified into seperate families but khoisan is still a usefull term for their sprachbund(linguistic area where languages interchange vocab and features). Point is khoisan languages are much cooler, often possesing vary cool grammar, phonology or both. Many early classifications basically distinguished the languages in southern africa based on this. “Oh this language has clicks but other than that is pretty tame, must be an atlantic-congo language” and then “This is unhinged, why are there 80 consonants, 30 vowels, 2 tones and 20 genders(noun classes) in this language, lets just say its khoisan and call it a day”. But yeah thank you for reading, or not reading my rant.
That’s right, dont ever accept that bs excuse of ignorance. They have an education and are choosing to be racist because they hate people who don’t look like them.
