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Originally Posted by jamesqf
That works both ways, though. Why do parents give their kids names that will immediately mark them as members of a minority group, if not their own racism? Suppose that young woman had been named Sally or Sandra instead?
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Gotta have to agree on that. Some irresponsible parents, not only blacks, give embarassing names to their kids, sometimes doing that as some sort of "political" statement which sounds like they don't really want to integrate into mainstream society and would rather lock their kids in a bubble. Anyway, the problem is not "
looking obviously black", it's
acting obviously stupid and then trying to put the blame on others for their own misfortunes.
But anyway, and back on topic: some years ago I was talking to a Brazilian black guy who was heading to Texas, and we got into food stereotypes. It was quite surprising for us as Brazilians to find out that fried chicken is often depicted as a stereotypically-black staple (I'm a white/native Brazilian mestizo and eat it regularly), while here in Brazil other foods with a black influence such as feijoada and acarajé ain't really so much of a taboo.