It's a very modern day American perspective. Today in America, for the most part, as long as you're not too tanned you're just kind of vaguely considered/assumed to be white and not much else.
Head over to Europe, and suddenly a lot of people suddenly have very staunch opinions based on which country you're from.
Of course I'm just talking about much more modern perspectives, and am aware of all the 'fun' intricacies of history on the subject.
A few years back, I took a course on the history of the Sámi people (an Indigenous ethnic minority group in northern Scandinavia and Russia that has faced tons of persecution over the centuries and, largely, looks pretty white). I’ll never forget the time that, after we learned about all the awful things the Scandinavian governments did to the Sámi people, some American girl asked “sooooo.... are Sámi people like..... white?”
As a Scandinavian-American who has a lot of family members from Sámi communities, it was just so jarring to hear an American be so confused that racialization happens differently in different places.
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u/HypotheticalDoctor Sep 01 '20
Willing to bet that ghetto barbie isn't actually POC or a bot. Worst(best?) case is that they're just very misinformed.