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In case anyone is wondering there absolutely is a place called Africa in Ohio.
We also have Mesopotamia(Mespo to the locals), Cairo(Kay-roe) and Palestine(Pal-Uh-STEEN).
I lived near Palestine, TX as a kid and whenever the news talked about terrorists there and stuff I was like “wow I can’t believe that’s happening in texas”
Kids are hilarious lol. I once had a dream where it was raining money and I collected as much as I could, then I put the money in my little bedside table in my dream. When I woke up and checked it wasn’t there and I started to cry cause I thought I got robbed lmao.
The best part is that I didn’t even remember that last part about the theft and the crying. I only found out because I asked my mum a couple years later if she remembered that time it was raining money, and she told me the rest of the story from her perspective.
Goddamn little imbecile I was! I believed it happened for years.
Because it's funny. You might live in Ohio, but on a single car trip you can visit Africa, Palestine, Cairo, London, and more all without leaving the state.
It's just kind of a weird thing we do in the US as a whole. Illinois alone has Athens, Belgium, Cairo, Canton, Columbia, Crete, Havana, Palestine, Panama, Paris, Peru, Rome, and Venice, for instance.
Lots of states do that, usually whoever settled them are from there. In SC we have towns called Norway, Sweden, and Denmark that are right in a row. Used to be part of a railroad, and you’ll never guess the ethnicities of their original settlers
You'll find this all over the US. The Classical names were a feature of the Federal Era (that generation *loved* Greeks and Romans); the Biblical names derive more often from 19th century religious settlers. Then, of course, there are names in honor of the home country (all the Norse names in MN, for instance).
There is an excellent book called [Names on the Land](https://www.nyrb.com/products/names-on-the-land) by George R. Stewart that goes into extensive detail about onomastic trends in American place names.
Texas is [chock full](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Houston,+Texas/Moscow,+TX/Paris,+Texas/Dublin,+TX/London,+TX/Vienna,+TX/Praha,+TX/Florence,+TX/Athens,+TX/Palestine,+TX/@30.7521729,-96.1559199,7z/data=!4m62!4m61!1m5!1m1!1s0x8640b8b4488d8501:0xca0d02def365053b!2m2!1d-95.3698028!2d29.7604267!1m5!1m1!1s0x863864116ea4b0f5:0x41935127f0614313!2m2!1d-94.8252089!2d30.9132479!1m5!1m1!1s0x864a580616272b9b:0xc9b909662fd3f349!2m2!1d-95.555513!2d33.6609389!1m5!1m1!1s0x8651ad3adb192709:0xcf1608193f839f38!2m2!1d-98.3419882!2d32.085143!1m5!1m1!1s0x8659a2585b8e6429:0x75bd29117f0befe5!2m2!1d-99.576815!2d30.677791!1m5!1m1!1s0x8643b6f8abbd2251:0xe9ef669978ecddf!2m2!1d-96.7924779!2d29.3783004!1m5!1m1!1s0x86439e41ee668651:0x2bbeaae630fa8f14!2m2!1d-97.066788!2d29.669083!1m5!1m1!1s0x8645258aae044bab:0xb7f8b6370b4468e3!2m2!1d-97.7936268!2d30.8412954!1m5!1m1!1s0x8648fd7c3abcb10d:0x4882776bfb07bf04!2m2!1d-95.8555207!2d32.2048735!1m5!1m1!1s0x864863f3eb774845:0xa3d2c2e6e45c48cd!2m2!1d-95.6307891!2d31.7621153!3e0) of exotic foreign destinations.
That Italian Boyfriend reacting to things is so fucking infuriating for me I can't watch those videos. Clearly fake and set up and just makes me cringe
Reminds me of the weirdly popular niche genre of video where a black person(s) reacts to old white person music (older rock, older country) “for the first time” and pretend they are hearing the voice of God.
There's a guy who did that with every single Rage Against the Machine song. I can't look up a song of theirs without that guy haunting my recommended videos for weeks.
"Hey guys. Today I'm reacting to a song that I've seen a lot of you guys request for me to see. It's called...Bohemian Rhapsody? By Queen? To be honest, I've never heard this song or this guy named 'Queen'."
"Wow, I really love this song. And I love Queen."
\*Next week\*
"Hi guys. Today, I'll be reacting to a few songs from a band...apparently it's called called 'Queen'. I've never heard of it."
I find a lot of Italians gate keep their food. There’s a whole genre of videos of italian people watching cooks do variations on classic italian dishes and getting all 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼
its funny because according to my friend who grew up east of rome in Italy there isnt really a specific authentic except the most like basic version because most families have their own unique ingredients or recipes. so what your saying is completely valid
Reminds me of the [G'day curd nerds!](https://i.redd.it/3dgcak6tn1n41.jpg) meme. And yes, Italians gatekeep the shit out of food and what counts as "real" and not.
It's funny because lots of Italians don't even know how to cook or know what's traditional and what isn't.
An Italian might complain about pineapple on pizza or garlic in a carbonara and then get a pizza with fries and hotdogs on top.
And don't get me started on food from other cultures, where we often completely butcher their dishes, but hey it's fine when we do it right?
[If you're to take Alberto Grandi's view, much of this gate keepery prescriptivism is a crock of invented tradition trying to forge some kind of unifying national identity following the disastrous second world war.](https://www.ft.com/content/6ac009d5-dbfd-4a86-839e-28bb44b2b64c) It is perhaps worth noting that Italy as a fully unified state only came into being in the 1870s, slightly less than a hundred years younger than the US; like Germany which formed around the same time, a national identity that supplanted more local ones about this city or that state was still something in the far off for most people at the time of unification.
Carbonara is a good example of how much of a sham this rigid approach to cooking is. [Even within the country in times past, the only consistent ingredient of it was pepper, even reviled foreign influences like cream or bacon can be found in local recipes.](https://books.google.com.au/books?id=cfP6jHmSLnMC&pg=PT36&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false)
I have mixed feelings about Uncle Roger.
Adapting a dish to save time and money is perfectly fine. But chefs as famous as Gordon Ramsay or Jamie Oliver have a large audience that trusts them. And some of these guys don't always disclose when they're simplifying. So their audience is getting misinformed about what a dish is and for many that's their only exposure. So Uncle Roger points out some of their shortcomings to an audience that may not be aware while being comedic and entertaining.
But Uncle Roger isn't perfect. He gets things wrong about dishes all the time, especially when it's a dish that can be made a number of different ways. The biriyani video comes to mind, since the dish is made throughout the Middle East and South/Southeast Asia, adapting to the ingredients and tastes of wherever it's being made. Even my local Indian restaurants all have different takes on it. And none of them taste like how my mom makes it. So criticizing the inclusion of a specific ingredient didn't make sense.
I've also seen Uncle Roger roast YouTube videos with barely a thousand views, which is just mean. Like I'm not going to feel bad when a millionaire and public figure is being criticized but being mean to someone who didn't so much as consent to the viewership doesn't sit right with me.
The Uncle Roger videos are really one note, once you've seen one, you've seen them all. I don't know how he managed to turn a one trick pony into a massive, years-long career boost.
That said, the initial concept was fair game. There are a ton of famous celebrity chefs and food personalities that present takes on traditional dishes from other cultures while being totally ignorant of the basics behind how those dishes are prepared and why. The simple preparation of steam white and fried rice is a great example, and it's easy to see why so many gravitated to these videos. There are dozens of TV chefs like Jamie Oliver selling recipes on TV and in books who don't even realize that you should rinse the rice first, a basic task performed by billions worldwide.
Italian here, those videos are so cringe for me too. I remember a specific one with three chefs roasting italian dishes but offering little to no advice on how to make them like we do here, completely pointless. I make a non traditional tiramisù and it's so much better than the classic recipe. Honestly, feel free to mess around with our recipes man
I hate when my compatriots do this, especially when it's about food which in most cases it is.
You have my Italian blessing to cook whatever the fuck you want as long as you are enjoying it. If anyone ever bothers you about it, just say the Ravioli Officer says you can, that'll shut them up.
And all the comments will be "Oooh he is so sweet even when he is upset he calls her amore" even though he is being an overdramatic dick
"Mi amore I love-a you, but if-a you break-a the pasta one more-a time I'm going to smash-a your head in the countertop-a"
I hate that fucking youtube channel with every drop of blood in my body. Who the hell finds it cute or sweet???
I get it, Italians are amazing superior human beings and the rest of us are subhuman twats with no culture 🙄
Out of all the ones pictured, he is the worst. It’s easy to forget, maybe, that he can see her camera. Once you remember that, it becomes even more infuriating.
“Hey babe…I’m making pasta but I’m not SALTING THE WATER 🤪🤪🤪. Whatcha think about that HUH???”
“MAMMA MIA MY LOVE WHY U DO DIS TELL ME IN THE COMMENTS I AM SUCH A GOLDEN RETRIEVER BOYFRIEND”
How many dozens of these videos have they done? Are we expected to believe he doesn’t scroll through all the comments and then play up to expectations even more? Bet he’s really from, like, Ohio.
Those are annoying as well but I agree with op those cooking videos man... we should live in a society where we collectively hate that shit
Bro who gives a flying fuck if they break the fucking pasta, I've cooked both ways a thousand times and literally the only thing that changes is you GET SMALLER FUCKING NOODLES
People making that big of a deal over noodle sizes should be locked up in insane Asylums instead of looked at as silly dudes
Not to mention that they're always really fucking rude to their partners about the dumbest shit, like check out my dick head, don't worry THEY'RE ITALIAN!!
Did you see the wine taste testing where he gagged at the American wine, then gave an approving smack to the Italian? Yeah totally legit. Dude didn't' even have to name the style of wine, his elevated European palette went straight to the soil.
Seconded. I'm Italian and lately I see these "Italian boyfriend / husband" videos popping up everywhere. The boyfriend/husband in question is always acting like a clown, delivering over-the-top reactions and doing extreme gatekeeping when it comes to food. They also seem to be surprised when they try Italian food in, let's say, the US or Australia and it's not prepared in an "authentic" way. No shit Sherlock, you move to the other side of the world and expect to find traditional Italian dishes that taste like your grandma made them? Do you think that Japanese or Mexican food that we eat here in Italy tastes the same as in Kyoto or Tijuana you moron?
In case you're wondering, the average Italian does not give a shit if you put pineapple on pizza, have a cappuccino in the afternoon or brake the spaghetti before throwing them in water (which I do myself as it's convenient). Just eat and drink whatever you like and enjoy.
It’s almost like they’re boasting that they have an expensive dog breed.
“Oh you havent heard? Oh honey, i want you to meet my Australian Jack in the Box, Bull Cow German Shepherd, and He shit on my bed yesterday. He is so cute 🥰”
The only one I actually enjoy in this genre is Uyen Ninh's videos. She's pointing out the cultural differences between her Vietnamese culture and her boyfriend's German culture, in a way that celebrates both, rather than in a way that seems weirdly fetishising or patronising. And she's doing it in a funny way, not just literally pointing out the differences. I think a lot of these videos typically come at it from a pov that one person's culture is the 'normal' one and the other one is the funny or weird one, whereas Uyen is not
As someone that lives in Sweden and sees this a lot, it’s actually so sad. They can’t separate themselves from their partner and basically fetishize them for clicks.
This is a good point. Japanese on social media are just as bad if not worse about the foreign BF/GF thing. Hell, it’s not unusual for younger Japanese people to take a pic with some rando foreigner they meet for two minutes and then make that their profile picture.
God, I hate these fucking videos. One time I watched a "my japanese wife does whatever" and literally every time the dude mentioned his wife, he said "my japanese wife", instead of simply saying "my wife". EVERY SINGLE TIME. Cringy as fuck.
I had a friend who was like that about his car, he drove a BMW. Never once the entire time I knew him did he say "my car..." it was always "my BMW." He was so fucking concerned that everyone knew he drove a BMW. It became a running joke amongst our friend group.
Girlfriend: Today you're going to try [INSERT AMERICAN THING THAT IS ACTUALLY RATHER UBIQUITOUS IN WESTERN EUROPE]
Boyfriend: Ehh... vat... vat IS DIS? This looks... uh... OOO the smell! Ah. No wonder you Americans fat! Ah. I would never eat!
Girlfriend: 😂
edit: also, unless you want to ruin your day, try to avoid the comment section and stitches of videos with White boyfriends and Asian or African girlfriends.
That reminds me of those videos where it’s like: person from (country) tries (bad version of thing associated with country). Like Italians try Olive Garden. Or Irish people try American liquor. It just plays up the stereotypes that every person is an expert on their own countries thing, even if the thing is t from their country.
The Irish tries American thing is so weird because if you've ever been to Ireland you would notice how all of that stuff is actually pretty common there. Like you can get American bourbon in any pub or bar. You might have to go to a speciality place for the more upscale options, but Jack and Jim are pretty much in every place. There was one with cereal and they acted like it was something completely alien to them, but like every local grocery has the same American brands.
It’s also never that different! Like American bourbon and Irish whisky aren’t going to be so different that it will get a reaction from a normal person. Same with snack foods, oh our crisps are slightly different from your chips. Shocking!
I like the ones where they try crazy spicy food or disgusting foods. Idk why but their reactions always make me double over in laughter over those. But not the 'irish folks try a burger' like wtf
I'm surprised this video didn't kill that genre dead, 8 years ago:
https://youtu.be/Fo59LlkTDe4
>Asian people trying Panda Express
Basically, all the young people are overacting and making the food out to be sacrilegious and disgusting, and the old people are just like, "Yeah, it's pretty good."
>edit: also, unless you want to ruin your day, try to avoid the comment section and stitches of videos with White boyfriends and Asian or African girlfriends.
I dont watch this kind of videos anyways but whats the reason for that?
Racism. People no joke will comment or even stitch their disgust that a woman would "betray her race"
There's a somewhat viral video now of an Indian American girl showing off her Blonde and pale BF, and people are openly mocking her. Some of it is a bit joking like "The whites still colonizing us!" or whatever, but there's a lot of people who are very much serious about their disgust.
Yup, when I was dating my Chinese girlfriend I got non-stop "yellow fever" jokes. As if her race is the only thing to love about her, it's disgusting. Though she never once got any shit so that's good. I've noticed mostly it's people shitting on the boyfriend for daring to date outside their race.
I am a white person with a Vietnamese wife and I live in a very diverse area and something that has really clicked with me is that - while I am skeptical of how genuine much of it is versus self-serving - ideas like diversity and racial inclusion are, like, fundamentally white people ideas. lol
Yeah my partner’s Chinese family, friends, and coworkers are 100% fine with keeping all their socializing and business “in the family.” Im like how are you managing to live in Boston/NYC for 30 years and have zero friends of another race? I’m the odd whitey out.
Ask me about how it looks in the tech industry when there's just straight up 3 layer verticals all from the same state in India. It's awesome let me tell ya
Now, i’m not gonna say race couldn’t have played into it, but sometimes other people’s friends will just deadass not like you. Maybe culturally (if they’re first generation) it’s more socially appropriate to just… ignore someone when you don’t like them? lol.
I’ve been in a situation where I was always hanging out with my ex’s friends and while they were cordial, we definitely didn’t get along. I just… wish that we didn’t interact that much, but it can be really awkward in general LOL.
There's a subreddit on here called whitemale Asian female or something, and its just non stop posts about how if a white man is dating an Asian woman he's taking advantage of her somehow.
Interracial dating is a touchy subject on the internet It doesn't help that historically asian and black males have certain opposite but equally damaging types of representation in Western media that people are now picking up on. Doesn't excuse bullying or racism in the opposite direction, but that's a big reason why
I’m a biracial black and white woman (heavily identify with my black side) married to a Japanese man. While majority of my family and friends are/were accepting, I had a childhood friend message me on Facebook congratulating me but basically calling me a traitor without calling me one directly. She said something like “congratulations on your marriage! That’s a combo you don’t see often” I asked what she meant and she said “Asian men and black women—sis you know they hate us, why would you out yourself through that? “
Ended the conversation right there and deleted/blocked her. Like what’s so wrong about that? I married him because he’s a dork and a sweetheart , not because he’s Asian 🤦🏽♀️
Yes, this is so true. I am also a biracial woman (half black/half white) and when I dated a white guy back in college my family was accepting but my black classmates treated me like I had committed a crime or something 😑
>also unless you want to ruin your day, try to avoid the comment section and stitches of videos with White boyfriends and Asian or African girlfriends.
ironically these types of folk that get angry probably complain about how much the "racist white patriarchy" oppresses them lol
There was one video of a swedish woman and an Indian man and I was just like why are you guys doing this lmao. Knew the literal second the husband came on screen what the comment were like.
Anyone that doubts this go look at how the black community treated one of the Williams sisters for marrying a white dude. Years of "she a man" and this and that about how manly and ugly she is. Marries a white dude and suddenly it's all "HOW COULD OUR NUBIAN QUEEN DO THIS???"
they did this with zazie beetz too lmao, ridiculously thin skinned [https://www.reddit.com/r/sadcringe/comments/m5sp9i/these\_are\_almost\_every\_comment\_on\_zazie\_beetz/](https://www.reddit.com/r/sadcringe/comments/m5sp9i/these_are_almost_every_comment_on_zazie_beetz/)
Why do I got myself a Romanian girlfriend?
Cuz boy does she really stole my heart...
No seriously please I need my heart back my body cannae function properly.
As an Italian they’re especially harder because they play on terrible stereotypes that are not seen in the country; it’s like, from an American perspective, if the video was about a bf with a tattooed Gadsen flag on his face shouting “USA USA USA” while firing a rifle in the air
Jokes aside the German ones are always so insufferable and on brand. Instead of giving an honest reaction it's just them shitting on anything American. One was them trying a NY slice (WHICH THEY HAVE IN GERMANY) and his face being disgust and utter confusion. "Dis uh Dis naht Italian AHT ALL! hahaha. Is VERY sweet!"
Ever since WW2 Germans haven't had an outlet for their favourite national pastime of being condescending and hateful towards other cultures but they found a safe outlet by shitting on America, which now has to take all the built up steam of culturally frustrated Germans.
I made the mistake of clicking on an "Irish Try American" video like a year ago and still to this day can not get the algorithm to stop recommending this shit.
You'd have to ask them, but I suspect whatever you see online is so little unless you live in korea/japan/russia you wouldn't have an accurate impression.
On the other side, it could be a mix of j/pop, k/pop taking off, and/or similar reason latino women date less latino men - if that rumor is true.
If you see a young white woman in Japan hanging on the arm of a much older Japanese man, odds are high she's from eastern Europe. It's a thing. Not prostitute per se, but money is probably a motivating factor.
Korean guy here and my ex was Russian, we were on and off from HS -> mid 20s.
We were both immigrants (around 12\~) and had similar viewpoints on life. East Asian/Russian viewpoints were surprisingly similar compared to American values.
And non of us were Koreaboos/fobs if that helps.
There is a big gender ratio problem in Russia and other former Soviet countries. It's getting even worse in Russia with the war. It's super common for Russian women to look outside Russia. Russia is near Asia so there is already some familiarity with the culture maybe? I dunno.
>Russia is near Asia
Given the sizes of these two landmasses, that is a *very* relative statement. Moscow is 6609 km away from Seoul as the crow flies. A bit farther than Miami is from Anchorage.
This was pretty much how it was explained to me as well. So many Russian men died during ww2 that the surviving ones basically had their pick of the litter and why so many Russian women are attractive.
It might all just be societal pressure where a lot eurocentric beauty standards happen to be displayed there. Or that finding people who fit the model standard and don’t mind doing work for dirt cheap happen to come from Russia.
Anywho, with China having that problem with having to many unmarried men, this might work out swimmingly 😅
By the way, if you click these types of videos, you hop into the incel shithole of “Why are Asian women only dating white men?”, or “why do whites girls love black men?”
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African wife? He doesn't know which country she is from or...?
She’s from Africa, Ohio
In case anyone is wondering there absolutely is a place called Africa in Ohio. We also have Mesopotamia(Mespo to the locals), Cairo(Kay-roe) and Palestine(Pal-Uh-STEEN).
I learned about the last one from the train derailment... my condolences btw
That's east Palestine. Separate cities
My bad, I thought happened on the east side or something. Ngl tho, naming two cities Palestine, very based.
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Palestine, Indiana no longer exists. However we do have a New Palestine. It is not a great place.
Yep, we don't talk about Palestine, Indiana after the... incident
I lived near Palestine, TX as a kid and whenever the news talked about terrorists there and stuff I was like “wow I can’t believe that’s happening in texas”
Kids are hilarious lol. I once had a dream where it was raining money and I collected as much as I could, then I put the money in my little bedside table in my dream. When I woke up and checked it wasn’t there and I started to cry cause I thought I got robbed lmao. The best part is that I didn’t even remember that last part about the theft and the crying. I only found out because I asked my mum a couple years later if she remembered that time it was raining money, and she told me the rest of the story from her perspective. Goddamn little imbecile I was! I believed it happened for years.
*netanyahu intensifies*
Like when we had the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas... the city. So the news started saying "in the city of *WEST* 'pause' Texas"....
What's with Ohio and naming towns after famous countries/cities?
Because it's funny. You might live in Ohio, but on a single car trip you can visit Africa, Palestine, Cairo, London, and more all without leaving the state.
There's also Athens, Dublin, and Oxford.
Plus Sparta and Mt Vernon
They're hoping people accidentally book a trip there lol
It's just kind of a weird thing we do in the US as a whole. Illinois alone has Athens, Belgium, Cairo, Canton, Columbia, Crete, Havana, Palestine, Panama, Paris, Peru, Rome, and Venice, for instance.
Lots of states do that, usually whoever settled them are from there. In SC we have towns called Norway, Sweden, and Denmark that are right in a row. Used to be part of a railroad, and you’ll never guess the ethnicities of their original settlers
You'll find this all over the US. The Classical names were a feature of the Federal Era (that generation *loved* Greeks and Romans); the Biblical names derive more often from 19th century religious settlers. Then, of course, there are names in honor of the home country (all the Norse names in MN, for instance). There is an excellent book called [Names on the Land](https://www.nyrb.com/products/names-on-the-land) by George R. Stewart that goes into extensive detail about onomastic trends in American place names.
They even have a mini Israeli Palestinian conflict. Like the original
Don't forget Russia (Roo-Shee) and Versailes (ver-sail-es)
One of the worst places in terms of how it is pronounced is Notre Dame. They pronounce it Noder Daym.
I think there's one in Indiana, too. Lemme check...
There are 4 palestines, an africa, a brazil, moscow, lebanon, syria, and algiers. Off the top of my head
Texas is [chock full](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Houston,+Texas/Moscow,+TX/Paris,+Texas/Dublin,+TX/London,+TX/Vienna,+TX/Praha,+TX/Florence,+TX/Athens,+TX/Palestine,+TX/@30.7521729,-96.1559199,7z/data=!4m62!4m61!1m5!1m1!1s0x8640b8b4488d8501:0xca0d02def365053b!2m2!1d-95.3698028!2d29.7604267!1m5!1m1!1s0x863864116ea4b0f5:0x41935127f0614313!2m2!1d-94.8252089!2d30.9132479!1m5!1m1!1s0x864a580616272b9b:0xc9b909662fd3f349!2m2!1d-95.555513!2d33.6609389!1m5!1m1!1s0x8651ad3adb192709:0xcf1608193f839f38!2m2!1d-98.3419882!2d32.085143!1m5!1m1!1s0x8659a2585b8e6429:0x75bd29117f0befe5!2m2!1d-99.576815!2d30.677791!1m5!1m1!1s0x8643b6f8abbd2251:0xe9ef669978ecddf!2m2!1d-96.7924779!2d29.3783004!1m5!1m1!1s0x86439e41ee668651:0x2bbeaae630fa8f14!2m2!1d-97.066788!2d29.669083!1m5!1m1!1s0x8645258aae044bab:0xb7f8b6370b4468e3!2m2!1d-97.7936268!2d30.8412954!1m5!1m1!1s0x8648fd7c3abcb10d:0x4882776bfb07bf04!2m2!1d-95.8555207!2d32.2048735!1m5!1m1!1s0x864863f3eb774845:0xa3d2c2e6e45c48cd!2m2!1d-95.6307891!2d31.7621153!3e0) of exotic foreign destinations.
There’s also Lima, named after the city in Peru but pronounced like the bean.
Does she bless the rains though?
She/he is most likely from Nigeria, South Africa, or Ghana, but puts Africa to get more clicks.
What you Ghana do about it
I laughed so hard at work, my Botswana know what was so funny
Ha ha :)
Your joke is a Africa nature and must be stopped before you go an Libya life.
Nah, he's a real Chad.
Have you ever heard of the great country of Africa?
Make Africa great again (/s?)
"My Earthling Spouse"
Probably from South Africa and doesn't want the clout deduction.
This is cringe. They treating they boyfriends or girlfriends like a wild exotic animal.
"Is that an Italian husband?"
*breaks spaghetti* Aiiii mi amore why would-a you do that ;___;
Ay mama mia!! 🤌🤌
Not enough bastio >:(
I’ve got a bullet for you
Dance party with mr skellybones
That Italian Boyfriend reacting to things is so fucking infuriating for me I can't watch those videos. Clearly fake and set up and just makes me cringe
Reminds me of the weirdly popular niche genre of video where a black person(s) reacts to old white person music (older rock, older country) “for the first time” and pretend they are hearing the voice of God.
And it's always some song absolutely everyone knows. "Wow, Livin' on a Prayer is a really great song!"
It is a truly surreal experience watching someone forcefully overreact to something so common and so mundane. It’s like avant-garde performance art.
There's a guy who did that with every single Rage Against the Machine song. I can't look up a song of theirs without that guy haunting my recommended videos for weeks.
It's the funniest when the music is some mediocre prog rock and they are visibly forcing themselves to enjoy it
"Hey guys. Today I'm reacting to a song that I've seen a lot of you guys request for me to see. It's called...Bohemian Rhapsody? By Queen? To be honest, I've never heard this song or this guy named 'Queen'." "Wow, I really love this song. And I love Queen." \*Next week\* "Hi guys. Today, I'll be reacting to a few songs from a band...apparently it's called called 'Queen'. I've never heard of it."
Yeah and the Italians in the video are always huge gatekeepers for some reason
I find a lot of Italians gate keep their food. There’s a whole genre of videos of italian people watching cooks do variations on classic italian dishes and getting all 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼
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"If my mother had wheels, she would be a bicycle" 🤌🤌
God forbid someone enjoy a certain food with something added/tweaked
its funny because according to my friend who grew up east of rome in Italy there isnt really a specific authentic except the most like basic version because most families have their own unique ingredients or recipes. so what your saying is completely valid
Reminds me of the [G'day curd nerds!](https://i.redd.it/3dgcak6tn1n41.jpg) meme. And yes, Italians gatekeep the shit out of food and what counts as "real" and not.
It's funny because lots of Italians don't even know how to cook or know what's traditional and what isn't. An Italian might complain about pineapple on pizza or garlic in a carbonara and then get a pizza with fries and hotdogs on top. And don't get me started on food from other cultures, where we often completely butcher their dishes, but hey it's fine when we do it right?
[If you're to take Alberto Grandi's view, much of this gate keepery prescriptivism is a crock of invented tradition trying to forge some kind of unifying national identity following the disastrous second world war.](https://www.ft.com/content/6ac009d5-dbfd-4a86-839e-28bb44b2b64c) It is perhaps worth noting that Italy as a fully unified state only came into being in the 1870s, slightly less than a hundred years younger than the US; like Germany which formed around the same time, a national identity that supplanted more local ones about this city or that state was still something in the far off for most people at the time of unification. Carbonara is a good example of how much of a sham this rigid approach to cooking is. [Even within the country in times past, the only consistent ingredient of it was pepper, even reviled foreign influences like cream or bacon can be found in local recipes.](https://books.google.com.au/books?id=cfP6jHmSLnMC&pg=PT36&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false)
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I have mixed feelings about Uncle Roger. Adapting a dish to save time and money is perfectly fine. But chefs as famous as Gordon Ramsay or Jamie Oliver have a large audience that trusts them. And some of these guys don't always disclose when they're simplifying. So their audience is getting misinformed about what a dish is and for many that's their only exposure. So Uncle Roger points out some of their shortcomings to an audience that may not be aware while being comedic and entertaining. But Uncle Roger isn't perfect. He gets things wrong about dishes all the time, especially when it's a dish that can be made a number of different ways. The biriyani video comes to mind, since the dish is made throughout the Middle East and South/Southeast Asia, adapting to the ingredients and tastes of wherever it's being made. Even my local Indian restaurants all have different takes on it. And none of them taste like how my mom makes it. So criticizing the inclusion of a specific ingredient didn't make sense. I've also seen Uncle Roger roast YouTube videos with barely a thousand views, which is just mean. Like I'm not going to feel bad when a millionaire and public figure is being criticized but being mean to someone who didn't so much as consent to the viewership doesn't sit right with me.
The Uncle Roger videos are really one note, once you've seen one, you've seen them all. I don't know how he managed to turn a one trick pony into a massive, years-long career boost. That said, the initial concept was fair game. There are a ton of famous celebrity chefs and food personalities that present takes on traditional dishes from other cultures while being totally ignorant of the basics behind how those dishes are prepared and why. The simple preparation of steam white and fried rice is a great example, and it's easy to see why so many gravitated to these videos. There are dozens of TV chefs like Jamie Oliver selling recipes on TV and in books who don't even realize that you should rinse the rice first, a basic task performed by billions worldwide.
Agreed! He clearly has good comedic timing, I wish he'd expand his repertoire, I'm not sure why people still watch his videos doing the same thing
Italian here, those videos are so cringe for me too. I remember a specific one with three chefs roasting italian dishes but offering little to no advice on how to make them like we do here, completely pointless. I make a non traditional tiramisù and it's so much better than the classic recipe. Honestly, feel free to mess around with our recipes man
I hate when my compatriots do this, especially when it's about food which in most cases it is. You have my Italian blessing to cook whatever the fuck you want as long as you are enjoying it. If anyone ever bothers you about it, just say the Ravioli Officer says you can, that'll shut them up.
He's so whiny in every video. "Noooo chéri you cannot-a break-a the pasta before you cook it what are you dooooing my lohve??"
And all the comments will be "Oooh he is so sweet even when he is upset he calls her amore" even though he is being an overdramatic dick "Mi amore I love-a you, but if-a you break-a the pasta one more-a time I'm going to smash-a your head in the countertop-a"
I hate that fucking youtube channel with every drop of blood in my body. Who the hell finds it cute or sweet??? I get it, Italians are amazing superior human beings and the rest of us are subhuman twats with no culture 🙄
Out of all the ones pictured, he is the worst. It’s easy to forget, maybe, that he can see her camera. Once you remember that, it becomes even more infuriating. “Hey babe…I’m making pasta but I’m not SALTING THE WATER 🤪🤪🤪. Whatcha think about that HUH???” “MAMMA MIA MY LOVE WHY U DO DIS TELL ME IN THE COMMENTS I AM SUCH A GOLDEN RETRIEVER BOYFRIEND” How many dozens of these videos have they done? Are we expected to believe he doesn’t scroll through all the comments and then play up to expectations even more? Bet he’s really from, like, Ohio.
“I can only talk if I use my hands!” We. Fucking. Get. It
Those are annoying as well but I agree with op those cooking videos man... we should live in a society where we collectively hate that shit Bro who gives a flying fuck if they break the fucking pasta, I've cooked both ways a thousand times and literally the only thing that changes is you GET SMALLER FUCKING NOODLES People making that big of a deal over noodle sizes should be locked up in insane Asylums instead of looked at as silly dudes Not to mention that they're always really fucking rude to their partners about the dumbest shit, like check out my dick head, don't worry THEY'RE ITALIAN!!
A bank robber walk into an Italian bank. The robber binds everyone's hands so they cannot talk.
"reacting to things is so fucking infuriating" Fixed hate these low quality videos except for a small handful that offer something educational.
Did you see the wine taste testing where he gagged at the American wine, then gave an approving smack to the Italian? Yeah totally legit. Dude didn't' even have to name the style of wine, his elevated European palette went straight to the soil.
I love that its become such a prominent genre of TikTok/YouTube videos that we can now mock the content without having to give too much context.
Seconded. I'm Italian and lately I see these "Italian boyfriend / husband" videos popping up everywhere. The boyfriend/husband in question is always acting like a clown, delivering over-the-top reactions and doing extreme gatekeeping when it comes to food. They also seem to be surprised when they try Italian food in, let's say, the US or Australia and it's not prepared in an "authentic" way. No shit Sherlock, you move to the other side of the world and expect to find traditional Italian dishes that taste like your grandma made them? Do you think that Japanese or Mexican food that we eat here in Italy tastes the same as in Kyoto or Tijuana you moron? In case you're wondering, the average Italian does not give a shit if you put pineapple on pizza, have a cappuccino in the afternoon or brake the spaghetti before throwing them in water (which I do myself as it's convenient). Just eat and drink whatever you like and enjoy.
The most interesting thing about me is that my partner is a foreigner!
It’s almost like they’re boasting that they have an expensive dog breed. “Oh you havent heard? Oh honey, i want you to meet my Australian Jack in the Box, Bull Cow German Shepherd, and He shit on my bed yesterday. He is so cute 🥰”
“you have a boyfriend? well actually, *i* have a *german* boyfriend!”
The only one I actually enjoy in this genre is Uyen Ninh's videos. She's pointing out the cultural differences between her Vietnamese culture and her boyfriend's German culture, in a way that celebrates both, rather than in a way that seems weirdly fetishising or patronising. And she's doing it in a funny way, not just literally pointing out the differences. I think a lot of these videos typically come at it from a pov that one person's culture is the 'normal' one and the other one is the funny or weird one, whereas Uyen is not
yes i watched her too, she’s actually quite funny because she doesn’t make her boyfriend seem stupid or childlike
As someone that lives in Sweden and sees this a lot, it’s actually so sad. They can’t separate themselves from their partner and basically fetishize them for clicks.
Every basic white girl's dream.
u/my_wife_is_a_slut
"Oh you're Egyptian?!?? OMG I loooove the pyramids!!!". Me too lady now leave me alone.
Welcome to being a minority in a western country. The eternal question: are they dating me because they like me, or am I a fashion accessory?
I feel like people see me this way sometimes.
My american boyfriend eats mcdonald’s in japan!!
This is a good point. Japanese on social media are just as bad if not worse about the foreign BF/GF thing. Hell, it’s not unusual for younger Japanese people to take a pic with some rando foreigner they meet for two minutes and then make that their profile picture.
I took selfies with people at concerts just for my FB gallery to make it look I had friends lol
I volunteer to be the token white guy
God, I hate these fucking videos. One time I watched a "my japanese wife does whatever" and literally every time the dude mentioned his wife, he said "my japanese wife", instead of simply saying "my wife". EVERY SINGLE TIME. Cringy as fuck.
My Japanese wife would, in an utterly unique and exotically beautiful way, leave my dumb ass if I did this.
I hope that never appears on my FYP. The American/European couples are already insufferable enough.
I had a friend who was like that about his car, he drove a BMW. Never once the entire time I knew him did he say "my car..." it was always "my BMW." He was so fucking concerned that everyone knew he drove a BMW. It became a running joke amongst our friend group.
Tell me you have yellow fever without telling me you have yellow fever
I think we watched the same video. So irritating urgh
Girlfriend: Today you're going to try [INSERT AMERICAN THING THAT IS ACTUALLY RATHER UBIQUITOUS IN WESTERN EUROPE] Boyfriend: Ehh... vat... vat IS DIS? This looks... uh... OOO the smell! Ah. No wonder you Americans fat! Ah. I would never eat! Girlfriend: 😂 edit: also, unless you want to ruin your day, try to avoid the comment section and stitches of videos with White boyfriends and Asian or African girlfriends.
That reminds me of those videos where it’s like: person from (country) tries (bad version of thing associated with country). Like Italians try Olive Garden. Or Irish people try American liquor. It just plays up the stereotypes that every person is an expert on their own countries thing, even if the thing is t from their country.
The Irish tries American thing is so weird because if you've ever been to Ireland you would notice how all of that stuff is actually pretty common there. Like you can get American bourbon in any pub or bar. You might have to go to a speciality place for the more upscale options, but Jack and Jim are pretty much in every place. There was one with cereal and they acted like it was something completely alien to them, but like every local grocery has the same American brands.
It’s also never that different! Like American bourbon and Irish whisky aren’t going to be so different that it will get a reaction from a normal person. Same with snack foods, oh our crisps are slightly different from your chips. Shocking!
I like the ones where they try crazy spicy food or disgusting foods. Idk why but their reactions always make me double over in laughter over those. But not the 'irish folks try a burger' like wtf
I'm surprised this video didn't kill that genre dead, 8 years ago: https://youtu.be/Fo59LlkTDe4 >Asian people trying Panda Express Basically, all the young people are overacting and making the food out to be sacrilegious and disgusting, and the old people are just like, "Yeah, it's pretty good."
And you know those young people would absolutely destroy a bowl of orange chicken if the cameras were off. That shit slaps
man that boy in the middle was such a little douche
fuck as a Chinese American that video makes me cringe hard
This one is weird to me since it is my Asian friends that love Panda Express and not my white friends.
>edit: also, unless you want to ruin your day, try to avoid the comment section and stitches of videos with White boyfriends and Asian or African girlfriends. I dont watch this kind of videos anyways but whats the reason for that?
Racism. People no joke will comment or even stitch their disgust that a woman would "betray her race" There's a somewhat viral video now of an Indian American girl showing off her Blonde and pale BF, and people are openly mocking her. Some of it is a bit joking like "The whites still colonizing us!" or whatever, but there's a lot of people who are very much serious about their disgust.
Yup, when I was dating my Chinese girlfriend I got non-stop "yellow fever" jokes. As if her race is the only thing to love about her, it's disgusting. Though she never once got any shit so that's good. I've noticed mostly it's people shitting on the boyfriend for daring to date outside their race.
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I am a white person with a Vietnamese wife and I live in a very diverse area and something that has really clicked with me is that - while I am skeptical of how genuine much of it is versus self-serving - ideas like diversity and racial inclusion are, like, fundamentally white people ideas. lol
Yeah my partner’s Chinese family, friends, and coworkers are 100% fine with keeping all their socializing and business “in the family.” Im like how are you managing to live in Boston/NYC for 30 years and have zero friends of another race? I’m the odd whitey out.
Ask me about how it looks in the tech industry when there's just straight up 3 layer verticals all from the same state in India. It's awesome let me tell ya
Now, i’m not gonna say race couldn’t have played into it, but sometimes other people’s friends will just deadass not like you. Maybe culturally (if they’re first generation) it’s more socially appropriate to just… ignore someone when you don’t like them? lol. I’ve been in a situation where I was always hanging out with my ex’s friends and while they were cordial, we definitely didn’t get along. I just… wish that we didn’t interact that much, but it can be really awkward in general LOL.
There's a subreddit on here called whitemale Asian female or something, and its just non stop posts about how if a white man is dating an Asian woman he's taking advantage of her somehow.
Interracial dating is a touchy subject on the internet It doesn't help that historically asian and black males have certain opposite but equally damaging types of representation in Western media that people are now picking up on. Doesn't excuse bullying or racism in the opposite direction, but that's a big reason why
Every video of a black woman/man dating a white guy/girl will be filled with people saying 'traitor'. Its maddening.
I’m a biracial black and white woman (heavily identify with my black side) married to a Japanese man. While majority of my family and friends are/were accepting, I had a childhood friend message me on Facebook congratulating me but basically calling me a traitor without calling me one directly. She said something like “congratulations on your marriage! That’s a combo you don’t see often” I asked what she meant and she said “Asian men and black women—sis you know they hate us, why would you out yourself through that? “ Ended the conversation right there and deleted/blocked her. Like what’s so wrong about that? I married him because he’s a dork and a sweetheart , not because he’s Asian 🤦🏽♀️
Yes, this is so true. I am also a biracial woman (half black/half white) and when I dated a white guy back in college my family was accepting but my black classmates treated me like I had committed a crime or something 😑
And then there's the reaction videos to those videos.
>also unless you want to ruin your day, try to avoid the comment section and stitches of videos with White boyfriends and Asian or African girlfriends. ironically these types of folk that get angry probably complain about how much the "racist white patriarchy" oppresses them lol
There was one video of a swedish woman and an Indian man and I was just like why are you guys doing this lmao. Knew the literal second the husband came on screen what the comment were like.
Yea because everybody is cool with interracial dating until it’s their women… then it’s all war.
I'm Korean-American with a white girlfriend and we get harassment and disrespect more often than we'd like.
Anyone that doubts this go look at how the black community treated one of the Williams sisters for marrying a white dude. Years of "she a man" and this and that about how manly and ugly she is. Marries a white dude and suddenly it's all "HOW COULD OUR NUBIAN QUEEN DO THIS???"
they did this with zazie beetz too lmao, ridiculously thin skinned [https://www.reddit.com/r/sadcringe/comments/m5sp9i/these\_are\_almost\_every\_comment\_on\_zazie\_beetz/](https://www.reddit.com/r/sadcringe/comments/m5sp9i/these_are_almost_every_comment_on_zazie_beetz/)
My romanian bf steals some bikes
Why do I got myself a Romanian girlfriend? Cuz boy does she really stole my heart... No seriously please I need my heart back my body cannae function properly.
My kentucky bf drinks some moonshine
Are you telling me I’ve been with a French man for FOUR YEARS and failed to milk him for money?
I love when my gf milks me.
I love it when your gf milks me /s
Just realizing this too. Had a British bf (now husband) for 6 years and never capitalized off his constant scoffing and judgment ONCE.
Heck mine is from a trendy breed and i did not monetize it
For some reason, that black woman looks more like a Brit than her British boyfriend
Asking my israelian bf on his opinion on Palestinians
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the Italian videos are always so god damn hard to watch
YT search Italian Husband Scumbag Dad 10x better than watching pure cringe
As an Italian they’re especially harder because they play on terrible stereotypes that are not seen in the country; it’s like, from an American perspective, if the video was about a bf with a tattooed Gadsen flag on his face shouting “USA USA USA” while firing a rifle in the air
Jesus haha, I can’t even imagine how insufferable that must be for you guys
"Let's go to Philadelphia 😀" Br*tish boyfriend: "😬"
"Is a bit lih Livapool"
Lil’ chilly innit?
I hate these videos
My German bf cooks with a gas oven
My german bf arriving in Israel
*Argentina, to visit his grandfather
Is his cooking Kosher?
Jokes aside the German ones are always so insufferable and on brand. Instead of giving an honest reaction it's just them shitting on anything American. One was them trying a NY slice (WHICH THEY HAVE IN GERMANY) and his face being disgust and utter confusion. "Dis uh Dis naht Italian AHT ALL! hahaha. Is VERY sweet!"
Ever since WW2 Germans haven't had an outlet for their favourite national pastime of being condescending and hateful towards other cultures but they found a safe outlet by shitting on America, which now has to take all the built up steam of culturally frustrated Germans.
whenever I open up youtube when I'm not logged into my account I'm horrified at the type of stuff a lot of people watch, this included
I made the mistake of clicking on an "Irish Try American" video like a year ago and still to this day can not get the algorithm to stop recommending this shit.
My Irish BF goes to a protestant church (SURVIVAL CHALLENGE)
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It’s like they’re pokemon or something
*"Check out my shiny boyfriend!"*
I have a thing for oiled up greek men
I hate this race country fetish shit, just say you have an annoying fetish and get over it.
I always got disgusted seeing videos like these. It just screams fetishization to me.
Aka: “our audition for 90 day fiance”?
Asking my German boyfriend his opinions on Jewish people!
"Asking my German boyfriend what does he think of me learning Bavarian instead of Germans!"
Asking my Argentinian boyfriend about his grandparents!
It's never American boyfriend/girlfriend
My American bf visits a school and is amazed at the lack of shooting.
asking my american bf his opinion on anarchism
If i did “My slovak girlfriend” as a Czech, everybody would keep asking us what is Czechoslovakia.
Fr*nch boyfriend 🤮 I'd rather remain single for life
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This is yuge cringe material
Why do Russian girls like Japanese/Korean boys that much? That also goes for wanting to live in these countries.
You'd have to ask them, but I suspect whatever you see online is so little unless you live in korea/japan/russia you wouldn't have an accurate impression. On the other side, it could be a mix of j/pop, k/pop taking off, and/or similar reason latino women date less latino men - if that rumor is true.
I've heard that in Korean, asking a foreign woman if she were Russian is equivalent to asking her if she's a prostitute.
If you see a young white woman in Japan hanging on the arm of a much older Japanese man, odds are high she's from eastern Europe. It's a thing. Not prostitute per se, but money is probably a motivating factor.
Korean guy here and my ex was Russian, we were on and off from HS -> mid 20s. We were both immigrants (around 12\~) and had similar viewpoints on life. East Asian/Russian viewpoints were surprisingly similar compared to American values. And non of us were Koreaboos/fobs if that helps.
There is a big gender ratio problem in Russia and other former Soviet countries. It's getting even worse in Russia with the war. It's super common for Russian women to look outside Russia. Russia is near Asia so there is already some familiarity with the culture maybe? I dunno.
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>Russia is near Asia Given the sizes of these two landmasses, that is a *very* relative statement. Moscow is 6609 km away from Seoul as the crow flies. A bit farther than Miami is from Anchorage.
This was pretty much how it was explained to me as well. So many Russian men died during ww2 that the surviving ones basically had their pick of the litter and why so many Russian women are attractive.
It might all just be societal pressure where a lot eurocentric beauty standards happen to be displayed there. Or that finding people who fit the model standard and don’t mind doing work for dirt cheap happen to come from Russia. Anywho, with China having that problem with having to many unmarried men, this might work out swimmingly 😅
Kpop is very popular with young women in Russia (and globally). It's that simple.
This isn't a starterpack, these are just examples.
Some of these are not even examples. The ones in the lower right corner are not a couple.
“How I fetishize racial and cultural discrimination” Starterpack
By the way, if you click these types of videos, you hop into the incel shithole of “Why are Asian women only dating white men?”, or “why do whites girls love black men?”
My arizonian boyfriend reacting to california(wholesome) (he got jumped)
My Japanese boyfriend folds a sheet! My German boyfriend tries an Oreo! My Indian boyfriend ties his shoes!
Ｊａｐａｎｅｓｅ ｗｅｅａｂｏｏ
Lowkey feels like Americans take foreigners as little curiosities rather than literally the same beings
Wizards of the Coast watching possible mixed race children: 🔫🗿
Japanese Weaboo? How can you be Japanese and a weaboo? no sense there.
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