🇸🇪 African American Couple Reacts "Being Black In Sweden"
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A lot of what she shared about racism is more about curiosity than malign racism.
We agree. All of our comments wasn’t just about Sweden. Our community is comprised of people all over the world.
Curiosity IS racism. Lack of curiosity too. Actually, *everything* is racism, or at least microaggression, or toxic. Because, as a "white" person, your are always wrong. Always. Everything bad or evil is your fault, by definition. You need to understand that.
My cousin (white) lived in China during the 2000's people came up to them and pinched her babies cheeks all the time. European looking kids I grew up with that had lived in Africa and Asia and had similar experiences both with hair and skin. So I think people are just very curious, so if they see something new/unusual to them they want to investigate.
It can totally be annoying though.
I'm very curious too, but I wouldn't phrase it like that, "where are you REALLY from", but rather just tell sb straight up that I was interested in their heritage
That's the best description. Curiosity vs Racism. I think there could be a polite way of asking the Swedish black lady for the same information. What is really being asked is, "I thought all Swed's were white. How did your family come to reside in Sweden?" I could be wrong but, personally I think that would be respectful. What else is respected is take the answer that you are given. If it's a short, simple answer or even an IDK, then shut your trap. If they start answering with a narrative then they are open to more questions. Then again that is the basics of communication. Read the room, listen to the manner in which the answer is given.
I mean i understand the hair thing, i have an Asian friend and we both went to africa a few years back, we went to village that was kinda isolated and alot of the kids when up to her and started touching her hair saying its silky etc, so i think its just that some people just aren't familiar with someone that looks different from them i dont think they mean any harm at all or ill will
I think you are right. My brother's Asian wife is really into touching my naturally blonde hair. I'm not sure why, since she try to do it without me noticing. - And I pretend I don't. (My hair is rather long, so I don't always notice what's going on at the end of it.) But I'm 100% sure that there isn't any malice in it at all.
We live in South America in the '70s at which time my little sister was blonde. People would come up all the time, say "Hola!" and touch her hair because it was considered lucky.
I agree that it’s not ill-willed, but it’s quite annoying when it happens all the time, and it’s rude to not even ask for permission. At the very least one should have the opportunity to say no. People should be able to go about their day without having people touching them without consent.
Am from afrika I live in Sweden. Am comfortable. I have always felt included in the society. ❤
Go home. We don't want Africans in Sweden. We want Sweden to be Sweden.
ofc you feel included =) africans are so polite , and really trying to be a part of the society . and therefore you will be liked =)
@@andreas543 No, we don't. Shut up traitor.
Happy to hear it!
Why wouldn't you?
I remember when I was in Greece as a child with my family and cousins. My cousins are blonde and blue-eyed. and many of the Greeks wanted to feel my cousins' hair because they had never seen anyone with such blond hair. They were so blonde that their hair looked white as children.
And this was in the mid 90's😄
Greetings from a Swede🙂
Ha ha yes that white hair draws attention a lot 😂
Greek here, I have cousins that could easily pass as Nordic (blond, blue eyes, pale, etc). We're ...somewhat of a mixed bag. Been that way since antiquity. Me? I used to be almost as tan as a gypsy. These days it's more of a sickly pale.
haha yeah I'm a swede and I had the same experience as your cousins while going to Turkey in the 90's.
"Why are they fascinated by a black person's hair texture?"
It is because it is so unlike what they usually see or touch. Afro hair is its own league of hair, it even has its own hair salons.
My father has the afro hair texture (but I don´t) and I have to admit: my whole childhood I was fascinated by the sound it made when he brushed it, the texture it had, and different care he put into it that I did to my own. His hair could do things mine couldn´t.
Magic gravity-defying hair is a mystery for a lot of people.
I have always been fascinated by the different looks on people, even though I live in a very diverse place. I remember the first time I saw the silky hair of a Vietnamese classmate. Or the platinum-colored hair of my friend during the summer. Or when I realized grey-eyes were a thing. It just made me wonder about the how´s and why´s. I don´t touch people without permission tho, lol.
Hope Facebook translate
Jag tror att det handlar om ankorlunda hårkvalite. Man blir nyfiken på skillnaden. Det är lika för blonda, som besöker tex afrikanska länder. De vill gärna känna på den blondes hår.
Ingen som menar något illa med det
I agree and i feel the same way! Im white Bosnian and my mom almost looks arab/turkish, she is much darker. My dad has blue eyes and is blonde, they both bosnians. Ofc i got the green eyes and light brown hair. I get comments about my apperance and i appriciate it. Im also very tall which people find interesting. From Arabs or Blacks i often hear "theres no way you are muslim, white and european, where are you from man" 😂
I think the hair thing is just curiosity for anything different than what you are used to. When I as a Scandinavian (with long and very blond hair) went to Italy on vacation I got stopped in the streets several times because people want to touch/talk about my hair. Didn't see it as a bad thing but could be uncomfortable since I was quite shy :)
I have had that experience as well, also in Italy 🙂
Saw a video of a little 3 year old girl with blonde hair and blue eyes in China, jesus.. chinese people pulled her and tried to forcefully take selfies etc
Honestly, I think if you would go to Sweden people would first think of you as Americans when they hear you speak. Swedes love when people speak English 😂 And they are quite fascinated by Americans.
About the hair, I think it's because the texture is so different from let's say Scandinavian hair. I know, when I was a kid we did'nt have that many black kids in our school (don't think Sweden had that many black people at all at that time) so it was purely out of curiosity and fascination. I had a boy from Uganda in my class and he always had the coolest hair styles and I asked him once if I could touch his hair and he let me. He did touch my hair too and I think he was a little curious too 😊 People are always curious about things that are new to them.
I love that you asked first. It takes a lot of time to style hair😅. Thank you for sharing:
@@TheDemouchetsREACT Yeah of course I asked, I would'nt dare just touching people! I'm too Swedish and too afraid of conflict to ever do that 😂 I remember that boy used to put pencils in his hair and everyone thought it was the coolest thing ever 😊
You would absolutely love it here in Sweden, especially Stockholm in the summertime! You should come! I will show you the city ❤️
Just so you know, there are approximately 1.9 million people living in Sweden who are not ethnic Swedes. So the Swede does not raise an eyebrow that someone else has a different skin color.
And they are all 1nvaders and will have to go. It's that or War. I hate these 1nvaders with all of my heart.
Im African and have lived in Sweden for 11 years personaly i have never experienced racism. I love and respect this country. I even have more rights in this country than i had in my homeland #SwedenTheBestCounTryInTheworld
Here was racism earlier 30, 40 years ago and called blacks-niger and they had cakes like potatoes which called the "Nigerbullar"
They changed and now everything has been removed.
I have a brother who had twins in Sweden. He went to study in Sweden and had twins there. Sweden supported him with baby materials which were surprising to him. All his testimony about the country is that almost all can speak English, but you must learn their language for you to get a job.
nat all jobs. but alot of them
Btw, we don’t say races in Sweden, we are all human race. But we say ethnicity instead.
Kids just say what they see. Blunt. My kids said a lot of weird things when they were about 3-4 years. Now they are a bit older and have seen the world more and know more. Human race is just curious. I don’t se it as racism when you are curious and want to get knowledge. But of course sometimes we all step over boundaries that we didn’t know. Best thing is to apologize and do better.
@@larubialocatattoo8430 As an "American" I have the same mindset. We are all human beings in the end, skin color is just a geographical adaptation, not a race.
We are parents and we agree that children are curious, but we have also encountered children who are taught to be racist (in the U.S.).
I'm a blond, blue eyed Swedish woman, on the short side, average looking. I spent a month in southern China, in a part where there were very few Europeans. Every time I went out shopping people stared, some wanted photos with me or to touch my hair. That was an interesting experience.
Well, that’s understandable. If people like you don’t live there of course they will be interested in watching in the same way as black people, they will be looked at with interest.
The question about the hair- when I lived in Dominican Republic- the girls liked to fuss with my hair as it is blonde. They compare their hair all the time as they have a mix of hair types. Many of them were very interested in the fact my hair was wash and go. Theirs was a lot more work. My son when he moved to Australia he was encouraged by his white female friends in their early 20s to grow his afro out. He did for a while and put up with everyone touching and asking questions. It was a fascination of the difference and they all thought it looked cool and also interested in how it is maintained and how it is styled. Just not knowing. Even me as his mum I didn't know a lot about caring for his hair. I asked lots of questions.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
about 25% of swedens population is from outside Europe - so it is not "only white people with blue eyes and blond hair", also remeber taht during the 1600-hundreds sweden was a HUGE nation in europe around the baltic sea (so finland which had been swedish for some 600 years at that point, the baltic states, poland and modern day germany - so a HUGE number of people with darker hair moved in with the troops moving around with the troops and moved in as craftsmen and traders. So "all blonde" as never been a thing here - dark haired and red haired has "always" been around
I live in Sweden and I am blonde and blue eyed. I never touch anyones hair, but my black friends hair is the only thing that ever tempted me. To me your hair is amazing and so different compared to what I am used to. I get fascinated and feel like a child for a moment. Of course I control my self, just as I would if someone had a beautiful necklace that I admired. But I must admit that I wouldn’t be FASCINATED with the necklace though … I love your channel and I really hope that you will come to Sweden .
As a black woman we feel the same way about y’all hair we just won’t admit it out loud lol.
Hi!
I wasn't born in Sweden but I was adopted to Sweden to a white family as very young. I love Sweden but not saying there are not obstacles living there as not white. At the same time I would say that as soon as you get to know people most are very loving and welcoming. Swedes are very reserved as people mostly due to people living historically fat from each other. So it might take some time getting to know people. My family lived in Africa for three years growing up and they would get the same treatment harwise as I was getting in Sweden growing up regarding staring and touching. I live in Stockholm the capital and nowadays no one would even think of touching my hair as they did when I was growing up. In a small town I still think their fingers would be itching to do it and stares are longer. Though not as much when I openy mouth speaking fluent Swedish. It is a beautiful and though crime rate is rising fast still one of the safest countries to be in still. So I definitely recommend travelling there. It is just beautiful and people are very peaceful at large. By
Today, I just assume anyone I walk by in Sweden is a born and raised swede no matter the skin color. I always get surprised when I speak swedish and the person answers in english xD
Aside from various political-race issues, I think a lot of Americans are hyper-conscious about race and immigrations simply because the US is a very new country with some highly visible periods of mass migration. In Europe and Asia people have been wandering around, trading, intermarrying, being pushed out of their homeland by invaders, and generally integrating for thousands of years.
For example, when the Roman Empire invaded Britain, many of the soldiers would have been from Northern Africa. Some would have travelled with their wives, but many would have found willing local women to spend time with, especially those soldiers who were posted to border forts for years at a time.
There are a lot of black people in Sweden, there are people from all over the world here. I read recently that 20% of the Swedish population were born abroad. Big cities are very multicultural but there will mostly be ethnically Swedish people in small towns. I promise you nobody is gonna take pictures of you or be stunned to see you, especially in cities. There are of course weirdos in every country and you might run into one of them but it's not how we are as a people and everybody hates racists here.
Swedish people have a tendency to "people watch" but we don't mean anything by it, like the girl you reacted to said people might look at tourists and try to figure out where they're from out of curiosity. Also, if you use public transportation there is an unspoken rule not to sit down next to a stranger unless there aren't any other free seats, so don't be offended if that happens ;)
Swedes can appear cold and introverted but we're warm on the inside. If you're nice to us we will be nice back!
This is why we’re growing a liking to you all. No worries, we like our space in public😅. Thanks for sharing, Sara.
Correct, and this is also the reason why Swedes will become the minority in about 30 years.
Most if not all small towns are multicultural these days.
@@vertitis There is more to being Swedish than DNA. People who are born here and grow up and raise their own children here are swedes as well. In the future there will probably be a lot less people who are 100% Swedish but that doesn't mean the genes will go away. We will all mix and everyone will be a little bit of everything and that's how it should be.
@@sarasvensson6026 This is the reasoning that people become Swedish because they have Swedish soil under their feet. I don't subscribe to that kind of reasoning. Our heritage plays a huge role in who we are and this is also true for all of those who come to our country. They aren't going to give that up to appease your wet desires. That's never going to happen.
There is no such thing as everyone becoming mixed race. What happens is that the dominant genes will take over, that is the ones that birth most children. The other genes will be halved with each generation until they cease to exist. This has happen before. But in this case there's also a violent ideology at play that has already proven to end lives. Perhaps look a bit into the history of Lebanon? And you might understand where we're headed.
@Gimil38 In her defence, I believe that she simply doesn't understand the kind of threat that our country is facing.
Sweden today, is already a different country than it was 20 years ago. I grew up in the 80s, and back then women
would bathe topless so you know it was carefree and all good :-)
As a french malian senegalese who have travelled everywhere i think people are gettin more educated but really i think that ignorance is the very nemesis of our human race! There will be stupid people everywhere and for sure unsafe place everywhere but most of all when you try to understand culture differences and similarities are very our best abilities and strength as human ❤from Paris
We agree! Much love!
You are an 1nvader in France. Go home.
I'm a white guy and I don't get the hair thing either. I've heard it happens and I just don't understand it... but I've seen a documentary about exploring the amazon where a blond woman got asked the same the same thing (once again mostly children) by people who had never seen such a thing. So, it plainly is a place a lot of minds go.
I'm the same as you. I wouldn't touch someone's hair. But I have always lived in multicultural places. For people who spend their whole life not experiencing other hair types, it would be fairly fascinating - especially kids. I'd forgive a child for touching my hair I suppose. At the end of the day, we should all be learning about and respecting the things that make us different - we're all human, but shouldn't ignore that we have differences and that learning about them is incredibly important and enriching.
Children are excusable, especially when its done in innocence.
@@TheDemouchetsREACT Yes, exactly.
In the Nordic counties we don’t register peoples ethnicity/skin colour anywhere. So if you have the citizenship you are Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish etc.
Bullshit. Maybe for you some 1nvader. But we Scandinavians are a people. We want to continue to have our countries. We don't want m1grants here, we have been forced to.
The hair thing I think is just curiosity. When I was a kid, my family were in Ethiopia. There where a lot of people touching my little sisters hair without asking (she had very blond almost white hair).
Nowadays I have a big beard and people sometimes ask and sometimes just touches it without asking. And that’s all kinds of people, even those who are the same ethnicity as me. 😅
i had a black classmate when i was 6 and she had very curly hair and im certain my curiosity had nothing to do with her race. i remember the hair's texture/feeling so well that i can relive it. but i don't remeber the spesific tone of her skin or even her name tbh. humans are tactile creatures and there isn't really anything that feels like curly hair
You need to put everything in life in context. Keep in mind that Sweden basically didn't have african, arab and asian immigration up till like 30 years ago. Sweden went from almost completely swedish to multicultural extremely fast. We have about 10 million people and more than 1 million of them are immigrants who mostly came "yesterday" if you can call it that. There's racism everywhere and racism against swedes have increased quite rapidly as well and that's probably due to the huuuge and rapid influx of immigrants and wierd "anti-swedish" politics. Overall though Sweden is a great country
As a Swede I can tell everyone proudly that if I look at ANY person that differs from my own skin tone (pale as a 4 week old corpse in a graveyard) it is ALWAYS because it is so damn beautiful.
Be it Indian, Turkish, African, Asian, Mexican, Native American.. Your skin tone, in my opinion, is all liquid gold in my eyes.
Let me say it again.. Liquid GOLD.
I see it all over the place as we have all different kinds of people here with different heritages etc..
But it NEVER gets old to me. It's like someone grabbed a handful of sugar and threw it at me.. It's such a sweet thing.. That I will never be able to have myself. (Not for the lack of trying.. I was just born looking like a golden retriever, with less fur and blue eyes)
(Also a fan of dark eyes but don't tell the Norwegians that)
Why do I find skin tones beautiful? No idea..
But it has, ever since I started developing memories, been something that just explodes my brain with pure arecoline.
Yes. I am jealous.
But what can I do? ;)
I´m a swede... and I would definetly look at her because she is one of the most beautiful living in sweden. Ooh my she is beautiful!!
About hair ....2 things, a kid reaching out to feel the hair of someone that looks different is not racism, it is curiosity....kids are allowed to ask the questions many adults want to ask.
Secondly ....if a blond person goes to a country with dark-haired people .....the kids want to touch that hair too
I am from Sweden. The hair issue - well ...
The first time I touched the hair of a black person, was when I was helping a little girl in Kindergarten with her hat. I hadn´t thought of it before, but when I touched her hair, I realized how different it was. My comb would never get through her hair. My fingers wouldn´t. How did her mother manage to comb it? And what schampoo did she use?
None of my business, so naturally I never asked those questions, but I was curious in the same way as when I see a very tall person or someone with a big beard. How do you fit in a car seat when you are so tall? How can you eat icecream with a big beard?
When someone is very different from yourself, you get a little curious, but it´s rude to comment it.
You asked about the interest some people have for touching the hair of people of another ethnicity. Well, I have no answer to that, but it seems to be a universal curiosity. I am a white Swedish woman with blonde hair (the stereotype in other words). My job takes me around the world, and I have experienced this so many times in various countries in Africa and Asia. First few times I thought I were just imagining things, but no. In the many different African countries it is children who sneaks up and touch my hair and also my bare arm for example. In Asia (particularly in VietNam) it has been old women who does it - but unlike the children in Africa they are not discreet about it, they literally grab my hair, pull it back and forth and then laugh for a long time. Showing with every inch of their being that this white woman's hair is the most ridiculous hair ever 😅. Since I am the odd one, a stranger in THEIR country, I have never minded. Don't get me wrong, I am not comparing it to the experiences you repeatedly have had, or the young woman in the video. I just wanted to point out that it might be a world wide curiosity. For whatever reason.
Thank you for your reaction videos!
That's hilarious. I can't imagine touching anyone's hair, but I've always lived in multicultural cities so...
@ben maybe that’s why other people’s hair don’t intrigue us as much.
Waiiit the imagery of pulling it back and forth made me laugh out loud😂. I can only imagine your reaction to that.
@@TheDemouchetsREACT Yes, I guess so. I am very interested in finding out about how people live in other places though!
Exectlly. But I can imagine lady in the video iving in her country being annoyed by that :D Cuz we have that respect and understanding for locals, but people in the second generation obviously don´t feel the same way.
About hair textures and people touching ones hair. There's even other Swedish people with other hair types that will sometimes touch my hair. I have very straight, soft, dark blond(light brown in sweden) hair and my friends will often touch my hair because the they say its so smooth and soft 😅
why is the question "where are you from?" such a problem? I've lived in Kenia for a couple of years and got that question every day...didn't offend me at all.
It’s not the first question that’s a problem. It’s when people are not satisfied with the first answer that becomes the issue.
@@TheDemouchetsREACT even then...I did what she did...say Kisumu (a city in Kenia) they didn't accept that either..so I almost always got the "naaah where are you really from?" question too...
I think we need to understand as human beings that curiosity is not the same as racism, even if it eventually killed the cat.
The hair thing is probably the curls. I have big fluffy, curly hair and ppl have always commented on it, tried to touch it or squeeze it to see if it’s soft or hard.
My brothers father is from Sierra Leone. And i allways love his hair. Its so soft and bounce. Its like a cloud😊
About the hair touching, I think that is a fascination that every culture has. When My mother was a kid My grandparents worked for the swedish government in Sudan and she tells stories of the Sudanese going up and pulling and touching her hair the same way the woman in the video described. So I think that people and especially kids in every culture are fascinated by hair and physical features that are uncommon in that culture. So much that they are willing to violate personal boundraries to get a look.
I don't think that being a black person who is born & raised in Sweden would be different than being a black immigrant to Sweden. Not just Africa but, pick a Continent and they most likely have a different cultural personally and therefore interact differently. Just like the response to the child in awe of her brown skin. She took it as, ok you haven't seen someone like me, now you have. As opposed to, as you pointed out, being taken a negative comment.
Im white and 50% of my friends are black. Super fun. I learnt so much about africa and i even traveled there. I dont even see skin color, i think most normal swedes agree :D
When I was younger, I had strangers assaulting me all the time. At least that's how it felt. I'm a White with a small amount of Native American, enough to make me tan easily and not burn but, certainly never confused for anything other than white. I had long, tight curls (like Shirley Temple, except hers were a perm & mine natural) and I would get ever old lady swarming me, like a meme, touching, petting, separating out individual curls (to look at the bounce? Am I a f..ng sheep?) and offering to trade hair (weird) and sometimes "joke" that they'll just snip off a few, that I will never notice a few less from the back. If I protested or pulled away, I would get gaslit or scolded. So I would scream and run away until I would scream and stand my ground. I feel your frustration on this one.
As an Asian who has traveled to states and countries without a lot of Asians. I found most attention was given because I stood out more than because they disliked me. Yes, there are always racists everywhere, but they have been more the minority.
I'm a swede and I remeber as a kid going to Turkey, I was 5 and my hair was white. White as snow when I was a kid. Everyone. Wherever we went touched my hair. I didn't understand. It was uncomfortable and in the beginnig I was really scared. That touching hair thing without consent it so strange & uncomfortable to the person you're touching without consent.
As an adult my mother and I have talked a lot about it and she told me it was like the comments below me have said, it was considered lucky & it was something they'd never seen before. My mom has said they gave me free ice creams, wanted to give my mom money for touching my hair etc. I don't remember ANY of that. I just remember strangers hands in my hair and that it was scary. I think I can understand how it feels to grow up and having everyone touch your hair your entire life. *Shivers in horribleness*
Imagine how people in Africa, Asia and South America look at a tall, blond Scandinavian family.
Our young ones can cause traffic chaos! Trust me, we know what it's like to be freaks 😆
The hair thing… my wife’s hair was very very blonde, almost white. When we were travelling in eg China, people always wanted to touch her hair, and even in places like Italy, some children were fascinated by her hair and wanted to touch it. So I guess it is just when you see hair that you’re not used to, you get curious and want to examine it, whether it is African hair, blonde hair or most likely red hair as well.
I'm from Sweden, have many friends of different origins. I love to give compliments on black hair. Love the feel of it. But I always ask if it's ok. I am jelous of your skin, your beautiful color compared to my blank skin that turns into red lava in the spring when the sun shines. Best regards from Annie 21:56
Nah you guys are beatiful.Your skin color, eyes, and hairs are so cool, It reminds me the winter autumn and spring seasons. Love yourself because you are beautiful.
Being blond visiting the Middle East, India or Africa also causes people to want to touch the hair. Travelling with a friend and his blond daughter when she was young was very invasive.
Im caucasian and got the same questions. I got a Finnish sounding name. The worst thing was when a waiter in a Africa hotel allways stroke my straight hair every morning att breakfast. And as a Swedish person i just tried to shrink down in the chair. I didnt want to do anything about it if he got fired. And had a family
I am a blonde from Sweden and in the Mediterranean countries and some African countries they have felt my hair, usually without asking 😂
I'm blonde and Swedish, and when I was younger and on vacation in Italy, people would want to touch my hair too, and they would comment on it.
It's not even a majority of swedens population that's blond and blueeyed
Shes corect in everyway, even when it comes to her childhood.. children are curious, her teenage girlfriends was only swedish teenagers that want a real suntan! The thing that they compared there tan to hers.. I think it was kind cute.. kinda I want a tan like yours?
In anyway, there is xenophopics in our country to.. its just that, if you are black and speak English, tryes to pay in dollar, being loud, and smalltalks.. you are Americans! This is a separate race that comes in different skin color and hairstyle!
Our xenophobics is today more concerned about Arabs or Muslims generaly.. in worste case black Somalians!
And then to stare.. swedes dont stare, thats the rule, but ofcourse we stare but often then without eye contact, if somebody stands out.. or like me as a male if there is a beutiful women! If one like to stand out one get more stares!
My cousin moved to Malaysia and told me all her classmates touched her blonde hair. Yupp, she felt weird about it.
America seems so dystopian, lol. the whole "i'm X-American" is so weird for me as a swede. if you're born in the US, you're american.
My best friend is black and we've been friends for 10 years.. I've never in my life tried to touch her hair. I find it so strange.. I wouldn't want anyone touching mine unless they work with hair
I am from a really small city in the north and my school that I went to literally had 90% of the students being black, Muslim , Asian or any other race and not of like Swedish origin or with foreign parents. I almost felt like a foreigner in my own country in my school😅 but then when I switched school it was the opposite with EXTREMELY few foreign students.(and this is still in the same city just other school) so it can really depend on where you live in a city :)
I hope you didn't experience too much racism from the non-European students.
I had the weird touch experience as a white person in a african country where I lived for several months, especially in very rural areas. That seems not to be a phenomenon of white people.
I like how she hinted that there may be other reasons people look at her xD. She is pretty though.
When I went to Turkey in the early 2000s...want to say 2004'ish...Everyone had something to say about my blue eyes. Superstitions run strong still in some areas there. My brother married a Turkish woman and she wanted my nephew to have blue eyes like I do, but he ended up with brown. She decided that was better because blue eyes are "evil" and cold and brown eyes are so much warmer, according to her lol 🤣🤣🤷
About touching the hair I would think its cus its different from what they have seen and kids dont have a filter to wait. They need their curiosity satisfied instantly.
In scandinavia we all kind of white .but last 30years many imigrants hos Come,thats why we ask.we dont men to disrespekt. But we want to start a talk
Nothing is wrong with asking respectfully. That’s how we learn from each other.
@@TheDemouchetsREACT 🙂norway,Danmark,finnland and iceland are 90% norwegans or danish,finish ect.we hare homogen countrys, so it very different than us,france or England
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The hair thing with kids is just curiosity. Just like all those documentaries with white people going to remote tribes, the first thing the tribe people do is touch their hair. Seems to be a fascinating thing for all people 😂
They should have asked her what ethnicity she is, maybe people think its controversial to say the word ethnicity/race. Its natural to ask if you want to get to know someone and you can clearly tell by appearance someones heritage is not from there. But it must be annoying to have strangers ask you that all the time. I get asked this too because i have darker hair and my only family from foreign country is from norway.
I think as a black African out of curiosity I would want to touch a white person's hair
One day my white client took me out with my kids and my autistic daughter did that for me 😂 i only imagine how she felt and what she was thinking as she touches her hair for hours it's really out of curiosity like i have soft curly hair and people always touch my hair asking whether am mixe n am 💯 african
I mean every swede who is actually 100 % swedish is in 8/10 cases white, has blue eyes and blonde
Not at all. Finns are blonder and historically most people in Sweden were brunettes. Just look at old paintings. I also wonder what you mean by 100% Swedish. The first inhabitants here were dark skinned and blue eyed.
Stämmer verkligen inte.. Not true at all.
@@tovep9573 78 % av alla svenskar är helsvenska har blont hår
that aint ture at all. my dad is 100% swed but he had black hair
@@SwedishDrunkard5963 och därför skrev jag 78 procent, då tillhör han dem 22 procenten som Inge är blonda
Touching hair/skin: When I was in Malaysia in the country side the first time I went with a friend. Hes the typical Swedish stereo type light blond hair, blue eyes etc. a 5 yo girl came to us and touched him, I guess because she needed to make sure my friend was for real. For me that is the only acceptable reason
tbh the "where are you from" offense is something i don't fully get because i'm white and my family is white and we move around a lot and every time we speak with an accent or do something obviously foreign people ask us where we're from. and sometimes we even specify that we're from a different culture (even if we were born in this other country) unprompted just because we are proud of the culture we came from. so while i understand that some people might mean "oh a black person could never have swedish nationality!" most people don't mean that! they just want to know what your family background is because it's fun and interesting. and a lot of white people brag about this. i mean americans still claim to be irish centuries after their ancestors left ireland.
I was searching for this comment. Self-acceptance is key. I am a black woman,who once lived in a german village,very remote, full of horses and catholic church. I got asked that question everyday, and I was very proud to showcase my traditional dance😂😂😂
Unfortunately, the US has a unique view of racism in, everything is based on race. Most other countries see you as what ever country you are from. Like this woman is Swedish.
I have been to many countries, and as far as I can tell, I never had a negative issue based on my skin color. Possibly being American, people may think I have more money than I do. Surprise, I don't 😅.
Speaking as a melanated person, this whole racism thing is so childish and petty..I wish people would grow up
I'm 🇬🇧🇯🇲🇨🇮 mix and i work with Asians Pakistan Indian's..they always ask where I'm from when they here my voice
To comment on your question about touching hair , i guess it is just curiosity. My girlfriend is a dark Dominican girl , so are most of her family members. when i visited her family. Every kid wanted to touch my hair , and so did some of the grown ups. Nobody look mad at me so i guess just curiosity for something different. When i went to her hood , everybody stared and i do mean everybody. Some even yelled at the house. Oye hay un gringo en la calle , meaning hey there is a white guy in the street. Nothing happened just curiosity
Human curiosity regarding the hair question. It’s normal and natural to wonder.
I am from Sweden and I just think people in like Sweden just loves your hair because its so think. Swedes often have thinner hair so its kind of exotic to us..
But you don't need to TOUCH it, right?
Of course not, just trying to explain.
@@erikpalmer1201 Yes, I thought that's what you meant. I'd love to come visit Sweden one day though. The closest I've been to visting Sweden is my local IKEA 😂
Oh, I Don't think there is anything wrong with some1 being curious about ur hair, a lot of people are curious and want to feel curly hair or just extermely straight hair.. it is all about how ur own hair looks and feels like and what u say around u mostly and of course a lot of people are interested in these differences, even maybe turned on by what they think is beautiful or kewl
Being curious is natural, but still you can't just reach out and touch other people regardless of their ethnicity, it's not polite as you don't respect their private space. A baby/toddler doesn't know better but older kids need to learn to respect other people.
The question of where people are really from seems to be asked just to be annoying. I mean I'm as white as you can be and when I was asked I had blond hair and I speak pure Swedish but this woman still didn't want to believe that I was only Swedish 🤨
Am not was. accidentally made a grammar mistake
Black in sweden? kinda wierd thing to say.
I should also look at her she is so beutiful that should be the only reason
And i love your channel and yes im from Sweden 🤗
Bonjour les Demouchets!
Bonjour!
I dont understand why you take offence if someone ask about your origin? You are obviously not ethnically swedish and that is okay, whats the harm to answer someones curiousity?
It’s fine to be curious about one’s family origins and/or ethnic background(s), but then one should ask about that. Asking about where one’s from and then not accepting the answer is just weird. Being treated as a liar when truthfully answering a badly delivered question is offensive.
Here is one possible explanation. You kind of gave the answer yourself.
It's very uncommon that someones hair defies gravity. It's only afros that does.
How does a hair like that feel when you touch it.... We without afro are just curious I think??
To be honest. From where i live the 3 of you classify as dark. Not black if i se a person who is really black i will look a extra time, as it's uncommon. Nothing more then that.
The hair touching thing. I do believe it's just a new thing, however how strange that sounds. I'm not that young, .... so when we went to places when I was younger in remote places or new "tourist" place. I remember I was the odd one, with long blond hair. What I remember from those trips are the touching of my hair. Fortunately people are getting more educated and aware of all kinds of shapes and sizes through the tv or internet.
The surname comment.... If their name is Andersson or anything similar, why don't they pronounce it the right way if you should pronounce it the "right" way? The origin of Andersson is Swedish/Scandinavian and we don't pronounce it Anderseaseouun....
Great video guys.
Im from Sweden and I have not talked to a black person for 30 years. And I don´t know any gay people or dwarfs. I have a lesbian at my work thats it. I think I treat every person the same but I dont know? I like this Danish song and want to marry the lady who sings at the end. ua-cam.com/video/jIWQnqiBQiA/v-deo.html
13:39 I don't know that either. It's safer you don't touch people at all
We understand the curiosity, but we just don’t want to feel like a pet😅.
@TheDemouchetsREACT for black ppl yes.👍🏾
The only thing that I have ever asked anyone is where do you live. That is all anybody needs to know. In these multi national times why does anybody need anything more.
This is a Overklass
About the hair: I don't have anything to say about that. Sorry...
8:32 What the girl's heritage though.i am asking,lol? Her parents came from the united states Or from a west africa country And if so which west africa country?
Hmm interesting question.
@@TheDemouchetsREACT Yes because we know african descendants are not native to sweden. So her family or ancestors had to have come from somewhere outside of sweden. Maybe she was just asked the question too many times so she stopped answering it. She did not say she doesn't know where her family came from before they got to sweden.
Maybe so. I don’t want to assume, but I do understand everyone doesn’t view heritage in the same way we do.
@TheDemouchetsREACT ok good point.
@@chimakalu41 Every humans ancestry is African if you go back far enough. She herself is obviously born in Sweden. So why would some arbitrary generation be defining us?
Ohhhh
Swedens native people ( the Same) have dna incommon with the native american.
The Sami are ONE indigneous demography of Sweden. We other ethnical Swedes have roots that predate the Sami by thousands of years. It is very easy to check up. Don't swallow the propaganda in which they try to eliminate Swedish history and culture.
I'm interested to know myself. I had only seen one negative video on this topic, before this one
Look, maybe becouse she is beautiful!!
You seem to be so intollerant to people who are curios. When I go abroad I like when someone ask me "stuff".
Our hair fascinates people who have been taught by their parents that they are the model humans. Too bad for them, we are the original humans. We look like God.
No ,it has nothing to do with that ,people are just curious
Sounds like you think you are the model human. Very humble of you. You remind me why I despise religion. And in this case, the religious people.
I did my DNA test would like to know how to put it out there they say India swedish, I don't know what I am
You are you, and thats more than enough ❤ It can be interesting to know ones heritage, but that's all it is, heritage. We all grow up to be the person we are, regardless of it. Just love yourself for who you are.
We are not bad
I think you should be more conserned about being seen as americans than black if you go to Sweden.
Sorry, but I meant to say are interested in, not need to know.
12:18 beyonces hair..lol.
We are a multi