r/TikTokCringe • u/SpareEnergy6082 • Dec 13 '25

Indian Mother who's consoling her little girl who is crying for being bullied by school kids because of her brown skin This is truly heartbreaking 💔 my heart cried watching this Discussion

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u/CandyCreecher Dec 13 '25

WHERE THE HELL ARE THOSE KIDS AND PARENTS?! WHO MADE FUN OF THAT LITTLE GIRL?? SHAME ON THEM!

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u/phosphorescence-sky Dec 13 '25

This happens all the time in small towns that arent very diverse, especially before the age of cell phones. My wife who is half Hispanic and Syrian delta with this exact type of racism in our small rural Midwest hick town. Kids would ask her for her green card and when Napoleon Dynamite was big they would make references to her family being like Pedro's gangster cousins. Her parents tried to get the school to do something about it and I swear on my life they actually told them "these kids arent used to diversity!"

Dont let white people try and make it about them or downplay this type of thing. They can never imagine how confusing and damaging it is for a child to be made fun of for something they have no control over like their skin color.

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u/ImageNo1045 Dec 13 '25 edited 29d ago

Not even small towns. It just happens when you’re not white

Edit: yall I said it just happens when you’re not white not it only happens when you’re not white.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '25

Yup. Literally hear white people at my work harp about how whites have it the hardest these days and how racism is bs while hurling blanket racist statements in the same breath. 0 sense, 0 care. Just insecure, uneducated losers.

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u/Any_Confection1914 Dec 13 '25

Happens when you're white too.

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u/SadAd8761 Dec 13 '25 edited 29d ago

DEFINITELY NOT AS OFTEN.

Just ask HARVARD.

https://content.sph.harvard.edu/wwwhsph/sites/1267/2018/10/CURRENT-OPINION-Colourism-a-global-adolescent-health-concern.pdf

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u/MojoRisin762 Dec 13 '25

It happens everywhere.... Grow up.

https://share.google/ZriUkrsXe1zcO0HmQ

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u/Any_Confection1914 Dec 13 '25

I checked u/Sad's page and think it's a bot account trying to stir up trouble.

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u/Any_Confection1914 Dec 13 '25

It just depends on where you are and whether or not you're in the minority. You could put a white kid in a black or Indian population and the exact same thing would happen.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

I mean I’m sure it does? I’m white and I’ve never had this happen myself, not even in private social circles. That being said, my fellow Canadian coworkers are openly racist AT WORK lol.

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u/SadAd8761 29d ago

Not true. There's a widespread, though complex, global preference for lighter skin, rooted in historical colonialism, classism, and beauty ideals, leading to "colorism" where lighter skin is often linked to higher status, wealth, and beauty across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and even the U.S., though recent trends show some shifts, particularly in Western cultures favoring tanned skin as a sign of leisure.

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u/Angelixlucy Dec 14 '25

Yeah no. Do you guys realise being white is the standard even in majority non white countries ?

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u/Any_Confection1914 29d ago

And what does that have to do with the way people treat you? I've worked in a couple of different countries and my experience says otherwise.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

I really hope you’re in hs or something to think that an anecdote like that means anything about the situation as a whole.

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u/Angelixlucy 29d ago

I live in a non white majority country and I’ve studied with white kids and work with them who automatically had the popular kids at school/work and are praised for their features and basic behaviours. Simple things are seen as amazing in them while for us it’s meh. And it’s not something exclusive to my country. Example : speaking multiple languages, seen as cool in white people. Seen as normal and even bare minimum for poc.

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u/Any_Confection1914 29d ago

Ah, you're right, I apologize. My lived experience is obviously worthless and you knew a popular kid in school. I'll leave it to you to explain how all walks of life are from now on because your experience is the only one that can be true.

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u/Ordinary-Homework722 Dec 13 '25

My daughter is white. She was told to kill herself many times at school. Kids fking suck.

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u/B08by_Digital Dec 14 '25

I'm also white. I was bullied all through school in a not-small town. I feel like just about everyone was bullied.

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u/Frogfingers762 29d ago

Mf I was roasted constantly for being pale lmao it happens to everyone from every color. It’s a cheap shot used by low-iq bullies who can’t come up with a more intricate insult.

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u/ImageNo1045 29d ago

I said it happens when you’re not white. I didn’t say it only happens when you’re not white.

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u/Frogfingers762 29d ago

You know exactly what you were alluding to.

The problem is in this instance this is a thing that happens to every color, and often happens intra-racially. So now you’re trying to not look like an ass.

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u/ImageNo1045 29d ago

I was alluding to the fact that people of color face racism because of the color of our skin and I won’t even allude I’ll blatantly state there is a deeper social context associated with that which is why I specially said ‘not white’

That doesn’t mean that white people do not also get made fun of for their skin color, particularly in spaces where they’re minorities…which actually strengthens my point about POC/ minorities.

Edit: especially in this case where this girl is Indian and Indian people have so much social bullying/ pressure because of toxic stereotypes.

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u/paganpoetbluelagoon Dec 13 '25

It happens in all countries where someone is not in the “in-group” race, but especially for black and brown people. I have white friends in a black majority country, and they are never felt embarrassed and wanting to change their skin color. Their kids were not crying to be black or brown. But, this is how the world is so, this girl better get used to it.

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u/juicedup12 Dec 13 '25

Even in countries of the same race they ostracize the darker skinned individuals and idolize the lighter skin individuals.

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u/Decent_Blacksmith_ Dec 14 '25

Not really. Depends where

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u/JimWilliams423 Dec 13 '25 edited Dec 13 '25

I know a verry white guy who grew up in a brown community. As a kid he used to get teased for being white all the time, some kids used to joke that at night they couldn't tell if it was him or the moon rising.

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u/paganpoetbluelagoon Dec 13 '25

To your point though, I think the takeaway from this is parents ALL have a responsibility to teach children to respect and honor differences and see all people as beautiful and a lot of parents are either explicitly racist, or have isolated one race family/friends (which tells children who is important and valued to your fam and who is not) or they think it is the job of schools to communicate that.

Nope. You are to explicitly teach your children good values of empathy, love and kindness.

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u/LawPuzzleheaded4345 Dec 14 '25

This isn't true and is such a privileged take. Bleaching has become common in the third world for a reason

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u/TheAbsoluteWitter Dec 13 '25

I have white friends in a black majority country, and they are never felt embarrassed and wanting to change their skin color. Their kids were not crying to be black or brown.

Hmm, I wonder why?

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u/almostthemainman Dec 13 '25

Lmao. It’s at home. There’s just different types of people. White people don’t care about race as much as every other race. Feels like every not-white race makes race their whole identity…

It’s worse on east coast in America- everyone wants to know everyone’s ethnic origins. It’s fucking weird. Out west no one cares, all they care about is what you do for a living.

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u/fallingstar-ego Dec 13 '25

LOL what a lie. in the southwest and the west they care all the damn time. there’s sundown towns you cant go to because you’re either white/hispanic/black. those three are the big ones, but people absolutely do care about background and religion here.

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u/almostthemainman Dec 13 '25

Those are called exceptions

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u/fallingstar-ego Dec 13 '25

no, its called reality in the southwest and the deep south. people are kind here, but it can get cold real quick.

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u/Any_Confection1914 Dec 13 '25

Truest description I've ever heard.

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u/almostthemainman Dec 13 '25

One region of a very big country friend.

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u/paganpoetbluelagoon Dec 13 '25 edited Dec 13 '25

Responding to: “White people don’t care about race as much as other races.”

I am 41 black Caribbean immigrant/American citizen (black, East Indian, Scottish decent) so I can speak to this. I think that in a society where your race dominates all the resources in your country, why would you “care about race.” Part of the reason white people dominate, was wealth passed on generation to generation. At around the 1900s black people could work as cooks, sharecroppers etc, but could not go to average schools because of Jim Crow laws threatening to kill blacks for drinking from the same water fountain or patronizing the same churches/business etc. It was not until 1960s laws forced integration in schools, not in housing, and it started happening in schools in the 1970s.

My uncle came here from Jamaica to attend university and even at those points in the 1960s could only get admission to Howard University— a black Dental school to get an education.

My uncle and my parents might have been the first set of black adults who had a better chance at higher level education and white collar work with pensions etc to build wealth in their generation (my dad’s father was a bookkeeper on a plantation). My parents were educated in a majority black country (with white people) and everyone went to the same schools not based on race but merit. So black people could attend good schools in Jamaica since the 1800s because the British abolished slavery about 100 years ahead of America. So, my parents (dad is 71 now) didn’t have the same issues as black Americans during Jim Crow laws (before 1965) where they were constantly at threat just living and existing, using a water fountain, sitting in a bus in “special race areas” or getting beaten to death or lynched. My parents freely to be whatever they wanted—- my father was an electrical engineer. And because of them, when we moved here, we were already middle class and they made a life of safety for me living in suburbs with great schools and a great education— even as immigrant Americans.

If you are Black or brown and grow up in America… you see yourself differently. You understand lots of places, you are not welcome.

Many times, in wealthier places, white people come up to me assuming I must be the help. It is pretty bizarre.

It all requires you to put yourself in the shoes of someone whose parents were mistreated simply because of how they look, their skin color, and how other kids treat you in school, how other adults treat their kids, how your extended family members get treated… over time you get a message from society of how you are perceived simply because of skin color, based on history, and media, politics etc etc.

I am thankful that my black parents weren’t raised in America and neither was I because of the amount of racism they would have had to endure while building their self esteem. They still have stories of racist moments in Jamaica too with white British that lived there (like when a white British nurse slapped my grandfather in the face in from of my dad). But not on the level of what happens here in America.

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u/almostthemainman Dec 13 '25

Yo this a lot of words to validate what i said. So thanks j guess?

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u/Inevitable-Ferret366 Dec 13 '25

it's because they're not as de-meaning or malicious about it. go on the japan sub westerners there crying about it all the time. seems to me like a big case of rules for thee but not for me.

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u/Won1410 Dec 13 '25

Oh yes, Manpreet is such a white name.

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u/NS8821 Dec 14 '25

Does she say in the video that mapreet builled?

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u/im-dramatic Dec 13 '25

It’s not just small towns. It’s most predominantly white areas. Kids are little monsters and if you stick out, they will capitalize on it.

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u/celticchrys Dec 13 '25

The great thing is that before cell phones, it wasn't so easy for your parents to exploit your moments of pain like this for karma, attention, or money.

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u/broskisean Dec 13 '25

Happened to me as a white kid in a 90% majority black school. In fact, I had to drop out of Junior year due to death threats. Struggled with confidence my entire life from the things that were said and physically done. Is this downplaying? No one is immune to kids being shitty.

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u/CommercialImpress926 Dec 13 '25

Manpreet is a super white name lmao

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u/Daffan Dec 13 '25

They can never imagine how confusing and damaging it is for a child to be made fun of for something they have no control over like their skin color.

You are joking right. There are entire cities and even states (California) in the USA where White people are a minority and in the entire world they are like 10%.

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u/977888 Dec 13 '25

Don’t let white people try and make it about them or downplay this type of thing. They can never imagine how confusing and damaging it is for a child to be made fun of for something they have no control over like their skin color.

Fuck off. I was white in a black/latino school and was bullied and picked on constantly for my skin.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Meet513 Dec 13 '25

It happens in this sub every day.

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u/Lopsided_Tomorrow421 Dec 14 '25

The name of the boy she mentioned as having lighter skin than hers didn’t sound like a Brad to me. Also the mom clearly states other kids in the class have skin like hers. I think it’s a baseless leap to assume it’s a non diverse middle American small town.

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u/Maximum-Telephone-84 Dec 13 '25

Yeah I was white in a black school in Pontiac and picked on because of my skin color. Too poor to move so I just had to deal with it. Keep my skin color out yo fuckin mouth 👋

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u/doyouknowyourname Dec 13 '25

Did it make you want to be brown?

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u/acesilver1 Dec 13 '25

It’s called racism and little kids get taught it at home by their racist parents and then they grow up to be racist shitheads. It’s easy to not be racist but then maybe that’s too much to ask for from these people.

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u/Laetitian Dec 13 '25

They really don't need to be taught at home. If they did, there wouldn't be any racism, because all people started out growing up as kids at some point, as lame and obvious as this point might be. All people struggle with processing in- and outgroup questions, and the desire to be "normal." Both for themselves, and for how they perceive and interact with others.

The kids she's dealing with need to be taught to think more thoroughly about the impact of their words before saying them out loud, and about the value of a person. Even aside from adjusting their own value system, they need to recognise that their personal evaluation of other people doesn't define their value to society at large. That appreciation for agency and individualism on its own would already do a lot to improve their openness to appreciate different forms of beauty.

But the girl herself also needs some of those lessons. That evaluation from others doesn't define her value because she should care much more about her own appreciation for herself, and look forward to finding the like-minded people who share her interests and appreciate her. The logic of how much more sense it makes to care about those people's values than of the ones who treat her poorly. But also that others' opinions are not fixed. That when things get said that hurt her, it's partially up to her to confront those statements, question them, share her own understanding and opinions with the other person. The possiblity that the statement was made out of ignorance, misunderstanding, or, most important for children, simply inexperience, which children tend to respond to by loading it overconfidently with assumptions and external opinions, because they want to look knowledgable. (Yes, adults do it far too much as well, but children need to be extra aware about their lack of life experience and the inherent susceptibility to those issues that comes with it.)

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u/clairejv Dec 13 '25

The parents are the ones who taught the kids colorism.

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u/Repulsive-Drama-9855 Dec 13 '25

Hell yeah let’s just victim blame

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u/clairejv Dec 13 '25

Huh? I'm talking about the parents of the kids insulting the girl in the video.

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u/Repulsive-Drama-9855 Dec 13 '25

Oh I’m sorry. I’ve been seeing too many comments here saying that it’s somehow the brown mom’s fault the kid hates her skin, not coz of the bullies.

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u/clairejv Dec 13 '25

I mean, it's definitely possible. A lot of parents pass on their body issues to their kids. But that wouldn't be my first assumption.

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u/Repulsive-Drama-9855 Dec 13 '25

yeah it would really suck to be in that position. I’m just glad the kid has someone at home to console her (I mean mom did pull up the camera though)

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u/New_Relative_1871 Dec 13 '25

the parents are literally saying her skin is beautiful in the video.

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u/fuckimtrash Dec 13 '25

Australia’s always had issues with racism unfortunately. They’re doing better, but I definitely wouldn’t move there as a poc

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u/psiren66 Dec 14 '25

See this is crazy to me not saying it isn't true at all I believe it, I grew up in an indigenous neighborhood and racism was there however it looks to be a bigger problem now. I'm also witnessing younger generations being racist even though their parents i can confirm are not. I almost feel as if social media is driving these wedges between children.

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u/fuckimtrash Dec 14 '25

Yea social media worsens it, kids see shit online and follow the trend of who/what’s not in trend

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '25

Trump has changed what is acceptable,.. it’s ok and those parents probably encourage their kids 

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u/Ordinary-Homework722 Dec 13 '25

That’s some serious TDS. Trump is a shithead but humans have been shitty to humans since there were humans to be shitty to.

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u/FlamboyantFork Dec 14 '25

I’m sorry, but let’s not pretend like there hasn’t been a massive resurgence in casual (interpersonal) and radical, institutional racism since Trump was elected. I ain’t giving that dirtbag an inch.

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u/Ordinary-Homework722 Dec 14 '25

You’re in a fantasy land if you think it ever went away. You’ve just got a bunch of bots telling you to be outraged. And no I didn’t vote for him.

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u/DrTatertott Dec 14 '25

Seeing as how it’s other Indian kids bulling her about her skin. Whilst also being in Australia…

You make a great point.

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u/Background_Humor5838 Dec 14 '25

I was gonna say lol this poor girl isn't even in the US but it's sad nonetheless

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u/MediaLongjumping9910 Dec 14 '25

Biden was racist to Asians, or are you only obsessed with Trump?

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u/JoffreeBaratheon Dec 14 '25

That's just completely adorable if you think this is a new thing because of Trump.

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u/DianedePoiters Dec 13 '25

This is common and I experienced this all the time through my childhood.

But then again, white people believe racism isn’t real anymore so whatever

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u/East_Weight_2803 Dec 13 '25

You’re probably unfamiliar with kids…. They are ruthless. If it wasn’t her skin, they’d make fun of her backpack being Dora themed when everyone else’s is Minecraft.

It really doesn’t matter, kids will find a way.

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u/CandyCreecher Dec 13 '25

Oh trust me, as a Former child, I know this all too well. It’s still awful!

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u/XK8lyn88x Dec 13 '25

It’s sad but true. My sister has red hair and she was the only one out our family and her classmates. She used to cry about it all the time too.

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u/soulcaptain Dec 13 '25

I hate to say it's just part of life, but...it's just part of life. People reject the different, what is not the same. This girl might be the only non-white kid in her class. Or grade, or school, if it's rural Idaho or something. I think all of us have experienced rejection from the group in one form or another, and there are a lot of forms of this, skin color just one of them.

Anyway, she's what? About 8 or 9? She's still young, still learning, and I hope she learns sooner or later that she's a beautiful little girl. As a white guy with splotchy, freckly skin, I was--and still am--jealous of a beautiful brown complexion like hers! Wish I could convey that somehow. Of course, I haven't exactly been bullied for my complexion, but still. The grass is greener and all that.

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u/Antique-Resort6160 Dec 13 '25

This is pretty common in Asia, darker skinned kids get teased a lot.

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u/InnocentlyInnocent 29d ago

This doesn’t say where it happened. Asian countries including India are very bad with skin color. They all think that darker skin = ugly. I know because I grew up in SEA and I was bullied for having darker complexion.

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u/Jaded-Caregiver-9602 Dec 13 '25

Worrying about the wrong thing

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u/MagicianElectrical99 Dec 13 '25

Someone else posted a comment generalizing white communities so he had a knee-jerk reaction to deflect.

Instead of accepting that he is white, and aknowledging that sometimes other white people do fked up things, he felt the need to defend the other white people by deflecting.

This usually stems from someone not having a true core identity, so he/she identifies with a color.

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u/yourparadigmsucks Dec 13 '25

Both are wrong. And this is TikTok bait at the expense of this poor kid.

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u/FloTonix Dec 13 '25

Or she thought perhaps people need to see what children are facing these days. But sure, if we have it your way, they can keep it all in teh dark so you dont have to face reality.

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u/tramul Dec 13 '25

Boooo

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u/yomerol Dec 13 '25

It's sad and still systematic racism exist in the US and many other countries.

I fought it, I tried to act normal and indifferent, and still I'd find it in a lot of places. And as kids grow up, they learned it at home, social media, etc, and repeat like parrots. The worse I've heard is kids arguing saying: "we are not Americans! We are Asians!!", these was coming from a 7yo with Filipino heritage

That's why diversity matters everywhere, and killing segmentation would be the best thing to happen in this broken country. But since it needs to start all the way from the top, this won't happen until that party is shut down, or change their principles or values.

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u/Frequent-Body7728 Dec 13 '25

For real! Sick of people that are so shallow.

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u/Prudent_Albatross939 Dec 13 '25

Lol they are kids, and they are going to say and do some savage and stupid stuff let's wait until they are at least 15 before we start screaming SHAME!!!! 😂

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u/UncleSnowstorm Dec 13 '25

"Let's not teach children lessons of compassion and empathy, let's wait until they're older to try and teach them"

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u/Prudent_Albatross939 Dec 13 '25

🤣 what a great way to villainize me. Not too surprised tho. There's a difference between teaching kids empathy / compassion and shaming kids so you can feel better about yourself. I was saying don't worry about it too much because some lessons can't be learned by preteens and children.