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Not every uncomfortable moment is proof of oppression.
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A retail norm became a racism claim because the American script got there first.
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The world doesn't run on America’s racial software.
BRIEFING
Grant here. Look, racial temperatures here in the U.S. can run pretty hot. As a result, everything here is "politically correct" and engineered "not to offend." But when you go overseas, those "PC" standards disappear, and all of a sudden, people are getting offended for literally no reason. Let’s break it down.
A clip from a Shanghai retail store is getting some attention as a black American claims she was being "racially profiled." In the clip, the woman records herself walking through the store and shows the employee following closely behind as she says, "Being black is so crazy.”
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A black American from Tennessee went on a trip to visit Shanghai, China
She shows in a retail store, a worker is assigned to follow her around and make sure she doesn’t steal anything
No matter where she walks, the Chinese worker follows
According to real FBI crime statistics, the likelihood of a black person stealing from a store is over 10x higher than a Chinese person stealing from a store
Stereotypes seem to exist in multiple countries
A black American from Tennessee went on a trip to visit Shanghai, China
She shows in a retail store, a worker is assigned to follow her around and make sure she doesn’t steal anything
No matter where she walks, the Chinese worker follows
According to real FBI crime statistics,… pic.twitter.com/O4VOjAPDgG
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In America, being followed around a store has a very specific cultural meaning. It usually gets read as suspicion, profiling, or racism.
But that's the culture here, not in China.
Community Notes pushed back on the racism framing and said that in China and many other countries, store workers often follow customers to provide service and help make a sale.
Then another user, who says he has lived in China for eight years, made the same point in blunter terms. He said he is white and gets followed by store staff every single time, too. He called it “hawking,” describing it as a style of customer service that Americans are not used to, where employees hover nearby to acknowledge the customer, offer help, and show they're ready to assist.
DEBRIEFING
There are two truths at play here: the woman may have genuinely felt watched and the employee may have genuinely been following her. But those two things don't always automatically = racism.
Sure, discrimination exists, both here in the United States and abroad. But it's important to note that not every uncomfortable situation in life can always be chalked up to "racism."
But unfortunately, America has trained people to interpret discomfort through identity before context. So the result is that a foreign retail norm instantly gets run through the old "American PC script" before context is even called into question.
This just goes to show that it's important to remember that the world isn't running America’s race software.
Sometimes the worker following you around the store isn't making a racial statement. They're literally just doing their job.
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Not every awkward moment is oppression.
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Been to China several times for business and have always had a government assigned “assistant”. It’s their way in their country, entitled Americans, who are not well traveled think the world is free like America….. think again when you’re in their country it’s their rules no matter where in the world you are. That’s why a US Passport is so important to US citizens….. it gets you back into the USA…. Home.!
One reason for this behavior is not ‘customer service’ it is because in China – almost everybody steals. They have one of the lowest trust, high property crime societies in the developed world. For example there are bars on almost every window in China, even 10 stories up in affluent areas, burglary is that common. There is an ongoing propaganda campaign by the CCP attempting to create a counter narrative, ‘white monkeys’ post videos on Youtube claiming you cant get robbed in China, and Youtube conveniently places these videos next to the hundreds of other videos on Youtube showing the endemic casual theft by “grab hags” and others that are daily life in Communist China. That said, China is also one of the most racist cultures in the world, and they definitely rate Blacks at the bottom of their racial totem pole. To the Chinese, Sino-race supremacy is an open, and prevalent belief, not something to be ashamed about or hidden as it is in the West, so
Sorry, but that isn’t a stereotype if that data is correct. That is pattern recognition.
Oh come on. Any time a black person is not treated as special, they scream, “Racism!” Democrats are to blame for that.
Well if you BLACKS were not so constantly reenforcing these stereotypes they would not exists now would they? Not whitey’s fault on that. You need to go convince your black bros and sistas to knock it off so these stereotypes will disappear!
Such a stupid story. People need to wake up and stop comparing the world to our silly ways. Japan still has restaurants and clubs that have a sign, ” Japanese only”. I wasn’t offended at all. The moron libs run their whole life around racism. It must be exhausting to lie like that.
Blacks are the worst offenders at nearly everything involving violence and crime, worldwide. Racial profiling is perfectly valid and while Libtards may be successful at preventing police from doing it, that doesn’t stop non-black people from using their common sense.