On red notes making fun of western people’s armpits is just as bad as mocking their noses

I'm a Chinese, and generally, I think cross-cultural communication is going pretty well. But yesterday, I saw this post asking why Westerners' armpits smell the way they do. Lots of people gave nice answers and scientific explanations, but the OP basically insisted every westerner smells unpleasant and they should acknowledge they’re less evolved. I tried to call them out on being rude, but they blocked me afterwards; I even received some westerners replies, saying that is alright, and they learned something new.(they changed some settings so I can’t reply to them either)

Many people might not see this as discrimination because they haven't been experienced it before, but it's nothing different from mocking westerners’ wider noses. It was originally a fight back when we’re being discriminated against for having smaller eyes and yellow skin. Fighting back is one thing, but making fun of someone's body and being actively racist is just wrong. I hope everyone in this sub can be aware of the discriminatory behaviors, and be able to protect yourself.

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CountryBackground617•over 1 year ago•2

Shows how free Chinese internet is

syndicism•over 1 year ago•1

With 1,400,000,000 people, you're bound to find a few assholes.

berlin_rationale•over 1 year ago•1

Pretty sure most of the inflammatory posts were made by CIA bots/shills masquerading as Chinese users.

mchotwheel•over 1 year ago•1

I would find that question disturbing. Asking people about armpit oder is a tmi thing. Meaning people shouldn't answer the question.

ncnyy•over 1 year ago•1

agree with you OP

crispy1312•over 1 year ago•1

I thinknit has a lot to do with diet not hygiene.

Mercurio_Arboria•over 1 year ago•1

Wait but what is the smell? In America it would be Axe spray, but in Europe it's more like...not wearing deodorant? Westerner is kind of too vague here - I demand more answers! LOL

Also I think it's Westerners have "higher" noses, not wider.

I don't know what is going on with the app, but honestly if you put a bunch of people in a room together, mostly foreigners like each other, like talking about stuff, etc. way more than governments would like us to believe. So peace and love to everybody, for sure!

Automatic_Praline897•over 1 year ago•1

Wow

Ill_Walrus_throwaway•over 1 year ago•1

Just goes to show we don't have a monopoly on assholes idk it's the internet

Famous_History2184•over 1 year ago•1

People being racist back to people who are racist to them is a tale as old as humanity.

Many decades ago, before the internets, people of various Asian ethnicities in Asian countries would call each other stinky, dirty, smelly, uneducated, gross, unshowered, unevolved.

This happens in non-Asian societies too where people who all look alike to me will claim that one group is stinky or underevolved. Still happens today - look at the land of liberty and freedoms.

It's not new. Welcome to humanity. People suck.

It is discrimination. It's never okay to hate on because of uncontrollable factors like biology or geography, but then again we cannot expect idiot racists to have any kind of intelligence to realize this. The very same group of people will then expect limitless understanding while behaving in the exact same way as the people they claim are underevolved.

The answer to racism is not "more racism". But people gonna peep.

Thanks for making this post though. Awareness and calling-out is always part of the solution.

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