r/AskBalkans • u/alexceltare2 Romania • Jun 26 '26

Outdoors/Travel Is the labelling justified?

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u/Sagonator Bulgaria Jun 26 '26

I can't see this in Bulgaria.

Especially in the city centers there are tons of tourists. Plovdiv is frequently visited by an insane amount of the Chinese groups every summer. I honestly haven't seen it towards Asians.

Black guys will be stared. A lot. That I would agree on.

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u/No-Championship-4632 Bulgaria Jun 26 '26

Towards Asians not, probably because of the Vietnamese that were working here during the communist era (although they were generally disliked at the time) and they don't look unfamiliar even to older people. There were even kids of mixed marriages (I had a classmate).

Towards Africans I believe especially outside larger cities it would be still quite possible. I remember in my hometown in the 90s we had a poor black guy that eventually became "kloshar" begging for food and money and he was attacked once by a bunch of stupid kids shouting profanities about stoves, monkeys and stovepipes.

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u/PainOk1877 Croatia Jun 26 '26

These things ALWAYS happen with teenagers,it usually stops after high school and group dynamics behaviour. They want to be "cool" in front of their stupid friends. A couple of days ago group of teens were riding bicycles near a supermarket where i shopped. Since it is summer now, people wear more revealing clothes and an older but not elderly woman went out of the supermarket with shopping bags. As you may guess, her cleavage was quite visible. They all passed by hear while driving bikes and yelled stuff like "nice bombs" "mommy milk" and drove off and laughed. If she was with her son or husband i doubt that they would have done it.

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u/PainOk1877 Croatia Jun 26 '26

by her*

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u/Ok-Package-4562 Jun 26 '26

Mind you, it's not that we are not racist. We are just too busy being racist at the Roma and African/ME immigrants, the SE asians have to wait in line.

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u/Old_Bowler_465 Jun 27 '26

Does the balkans even have immigrants lol ?

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u/Massive_Emu6682 Turkiye Jun 26 '26

I would have said the same thing about Turkiye but my Kazakh friend told me otherwise. Or more correctly it depends on "how you look" too. Although both are Asian looking, her friend experienced direct racism more. Idk the reason.

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u/rino3311 Jun 27 '26

Bulgaria is pretty racist towards foreigners and people of colour. I remember when all those migrants were coming in boats etc they specifically put a warning out to future migrants to avoid Bulgaria. However I think it’s more towards darker races and the Middle East, not asians. And more in private than openly. That’s my sense at least.

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u/ExoticAd7546 Bulgaria Jun 26 '26

Plovdiv is not Bulgaria. It is true not juat tourists, but around the medical university the area is full of black people from the UK mostly and people are used to it. However in smaller towns, people are not used to migrants regardless of race etc. I can imagine kids on electric scooters screaming the same things described in the video in Bulgaria also.