Kids say the.....

xglitter-me-upx · 30th September 2005, 09:32 PM

funniest? things.

I was in the elevator in the Wellgate today, and there was a black lady with a buggy.
These two women and a little girl got in just as the doors were closing and they started cooing over the newborn in the buggy. One of the women was pregnant, and the other one said to the little girl, "oh you'll have a little baby like that soon."
The girl turned around and said back "Well I hope it's not a black one"

I didn't quite know where to look.

Keerin · 30th September 2005, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by xglitter-me-upx

funniest? things.

I was in the elevator in the Wellgate today, and there was a black lady with a buggy.
These two women and a little girl got in just as the doors were closing and they started cooing over the newborn in the buggy. One of the women was pregnant, and the other one said to the little girl, "oh you'll have a little baby like that soon."
The girl turned around and said back "Well I hope it's not a black one"

I didn't quite know where to look.

kids these days eh...

thing is, she has to had learned that from somewhere eh...

invisible_girl · 1st October 2005, 10:40 AM

Kids are wee gits!!!

They're always spilling the beans, they say the most stupid things.

Chavez · 1st October 2005, 06:33 PM

A few years ago I saw a kid pointing at a couple kissing (an asian girl and a white guy) and the kid shouted : "theres a packi kissing a human!"

I couldnt believe it. Who the hell brings children up to think like that?

Scotty · 1st October 2005, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Chavez

Who the hell brings children up to think like that?

Aliens

Keerin · 1st October 2005, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Scotty

Aliens

must be.

Downie · 2nd October 2005, 02:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Chavez

A few years ago I saw a kid pointing at a couple kissing (an asian girl and a white guy) and the kid shouted : "theres a packi kissing a human!"

I couldnt believe it. Who the hell brings children up to think like that?

that's disgusting! i hate it when children are innocently racist. can't blame the kids of course, but number one source is generally the parents. i have a young girl who comes to my work who is quite racist(but loves black rap artists) and we asked why she thinks this way and such and she said her dad speaks the same way and she loves him so much and wants to be like him. he also tells her not to go to school because it's a waste of time.

Lynnie · 2nd October 2005, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Downie

that's disgusting! i hate it when children are innocently racist. can't blame the kids of course, but number one source is generally the parents. i have a young girl who comes to my work who is quite racist(but loves black rap artists) and we asked why she thinks this way and such and she said her dad speaks the same way and she loves him so much and wants to be like him. he also tells her not to go to school because it's a waste of time.

God thats awful but really what can you say to her, your dads racist and also has really stupid opinions?

Thats a tough situation to be in

Chunder · 2nd October 2005, 11:37 PM

Your all working on the assumption that were born not racist and learn racism, rather than the opposite of were born not racist and we learn to be racist..... Im not sure how correct that is...

I used to point at people who looked different when I was younger, because they didnt look like me, and I get it *all* the time over here in Japan from kids, usually with a shout of 'look! a Gaijin!!! Gaijin means 'foreigner' but it has certain racist undertones... I think its quite natural to be excluding of people different from us and we have to learn to get along, rather than the opposite....

Plus its really easy to put a tag that we hear from our parents (such as paki) to a given situation when we are young, meaning that we make a statement that sounds profoundly more racist than it actually is... And lets face it, a hell of a lot of people in Scotland use terms like 'Chinkie' 'Paki' and so in... There has to be a division made between what is said and what is intended, especially with kids

As an aside I used to get sung (innocently enough) a racist nursery rhyme when I was little called 'Ching Chong China Man'... Then one day, in the middle of a busy shop in Chinatown in Liverpool, I burst out full pelt into a rendition of it.... My mum nearly died.... Apparently I started asking her to join in like she normally does

Chunder · 2nd October 2005, 11:40 PM

Oh yeah and people who are learning a language (such as kids) say odd things anyway, because they struggle with the pulling powers of needing to speak to people and socialise/not being able to speak the language naturally, and don't have enough cultural context to not sound like a weirdo....

case in point, some Japanese girl asked me, a couple of minutes after meeting her how many times I go the toilet a day!!!

xglitter-me-upx · 2nd October 2005, 11:55 PM

Yeah I don't think this little girl meant it in a racist way.

I think it was just like her saying "oh I don't want a cheeseburger" or something equally as innocent.
It was just the total embarrasment, you could sense everyone in the elevator not quite knowing what to say.

RealR · 3rd October 2005, 01:30 PM

you cant really criticise a young child for saying something like that because as mentioned they probably dont realise they are saying something quite wrong. Also it isn't always the folks, just they are a likely source. Gohpers. Its a tough situation and i wouldn't know what to do. The parents should be stopping it, even if its not their fault. Tolerance and then acceptance of people can be taught

Hecate · 3rd October 2005, 06:25 PM

That would be an embarrising situation, but it may not have been necessarily racist, or learnt from the parents. Maybe it was just a sensible observation from the child that her parents (I'm guessing they were white?) would not be expecting a baby of a different skin colour from themselves. I agree it could be seen as a racist comment, but maybe that's over-analysing it a wee bit.

azpazzagus · 3rd October 2005, 07:36 PM

i grew up on army camps. and honestly i never really seen black people at all.
my mum tells me that the first time i did see a black woman i totally stared at her.. and my mum tried to stop me.. but failed!
in the end the woman came over and let me touch her skin, she said to my mum that it happened to her all the time and it was easier to let the child touch to understand?!?!

young children cannot be racists surely?

30th September 2005, 09:32 PM	#1 (permalink)
xglitter-me-upx [discothèque] Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Dundee Posts: 1,373	Kids say the..... funniest? things. I was in the elevator in the Wellgate today, and there was a black lady with a buggy. These two women and a little girl got in just as the doors were closing and they started cooing over the newborn in the buggy. One of the women was pregnant, and the other one said to the little girl, "oh you'll have a little baby like that soon." The girl turned around and said back "Well I hope it's not a black one" I didn't quite know where to look.

1st October 2005, 10:40 AM	#3 (permalink)
invisible_girl Goonies never say die Join Date: May 2005 Location: Dundee Posts: 719	Kids are wee gits!!! They're always spilling the beans, they say the most stupid things.

1st October 2005, 06:33 PM	#4 (permalink)
Chavez Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Dundee Posts: 1,891	A few years ago I saw a kid pointing at a couple kissing (an asian girl and a white guy) and the kid shouted : "theres a packi kissing a human!" I couldnt believe it. Who the hell brings children up to think like that?

2nd October 2005, 11:37 PM	#9 (permalink)
Chunder Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Location: 今治、えひめ、日本 Posts: 388	Your all working on the assumption that were born not racist and learn racism, rather than the opposite of were born not racist and we learn to be racist..... Im not sure how correct that is... I used to point at people who looked different when I was younger, because they didnt look like me, and I get it all the time over here in Japan from kids, usually with a shout of 'look! a Gaijin!!! Gaijin means 'foreigner' but it has certain racist undertones... I think its quite natural to be excluding of people different from us and we have to learn to get along, rather than the opposite.... Plus its really easy to put a tag that we hear from our parents (such as paki) to a given situation when we are young, meaning that we make a statement that sounds profoundly more racist than it actually is... And lets face it, a hell of a lot of people in Scotland use terms like 'Chinkie' 'Paki' and so in... There has to be a division made between what is said and what is intended, especially with kids As an aside I used to get sung (innocently enough) a racist nursery rhyme when I was little called 'Ching Chong China Man'... Then one day, in the middle of a busy shop in Chinatown in Liverpool, I burst out full pelt into a rendition of it.... My mum nearly died.... Apparently I started asking her to join in like she normally does

2nd October 2005, 11:40 PM	#10 (permalink)
Chunder Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Location: 今治、えひめ、日本 Posts: 388	Oh yeah and people who are learning a language (such as kids) say odd things anyway, because they struggle with the pulling powers of needing to speak to people and socialise/not being able to speak the language naturally, and don't have enough cultural context to not sound like a weirdo.... case in point, some Japanese girl asked me, a couple of minutes after meeting her how many times I go the toilet a day!!!

2nd October 2005, 11:55 PM	#11 (permalink)
xglitter-me-upx [discothèque] Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Dundee Posts: 1,373	Yeah I don't think this little girl meant it in a racist way. I think it was just like her saying "oh I don't want a cheeseburger" or something equally as innocent. It was just the total embarrasment, you could sense everyone in the elevator not quite knowing what to say.

3rd October 2005, 01:30 PM	#12 (permalink)
RealR Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Dundee Posts: 4,133 Band: They are make believe	you cant really criticise a young child for saying something like that because as mentioned they probably dont realise they are saying something quite wrong. Also it isn't always the folks, just they are a likely source. Gohpers. Its a tough situation and i wouldn't know what to do. The parents should be stopping it, even if its not their fault. Tolerance and then acceptance of people can be taught

3rd October 2005, 06:25 PM	#13 (permalink)
Hecate Don Kate (UGS Mafia) Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: somewhere Posts: 2,477 Band: Vulsellum	That would be an embarrising situation, but it may not have been necessarily racist, or learnt from the parents. Maybe it was just a sensible observation from the child that her parents (I'm guessing they were white?) would not be expecting a baby of a different skin colour from themselves. I agree it could be seen as a racist comment, but maybe that's over-analysing it a wee bit.

3rd October 2005, 07:36 PM	#14 (permalink)
azpazzagus la Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: dundee Posts: 1,806 Band: i used to play cello for the a forest	i grew up on army camps. and honestly i never really seen black people at all. my mum tells me that the first time i did see a black woman i totally stared at her.. and my mum tried to stop me.. but failed! in the end the woman came over and let me touch her skin, she said to my mum that it happened to her all the time and it was easier to let the child touch to understand?!?! young children cannot be racists surely?