If you are into memes and hang out at edgy racist places then you probably have seen it being used in such a way. Same with black people can't swim or any other racist nonsense. But it's not a stereotype people who are not into online culture are aware of. I am from germany and I have never heard of it growing up nor do I think other germans know of it.
Yeah.
What? This cartoon predates the internet by about, let's see now... 60 years or so?
Lol what? Canada is just as racist as the US maybe even worse due to people actually thinking like you do. The treatment of native americans is horrible.
Why is always people from racist countries like Canada,England or Australia who says stuff like this?
No one from Australia denies our country's racism. Not when our history is debatably worse than the US.
Sadly I have seen people do it or use "not as bad as USA"
Lol tru but some are worse, especially with a history of being emperialists
The name is based on her watermelon themed clothes. Other characters have skins named after their clothes like Lemonade Megumi, and there's even another character with a watermelon themed skin, Watermelon Oxide. I see no reason to assume it was malicious.
You are actually lying if you are saying racism doesn't exist in canada
Imagine actually being like "whoa keep that racism away from us ewww" instead of just being anti racism in the first place regardless if it affects you or not
What the fuck is this nonsense?
Mexican here: there's a song by Cri Cri titled "Negrito Sandia", literally "Watermelon Blacky" (as in a diminutive for Black man). It is not an American or Anglo thing. It's a racist thing.
Yep I didn't know about this as well until I read this thread, some people here are so aggressive
It is racist, no doubt about it. The thing is that for some it is an unknown racist stereotype since it has its origins in US history.
Bullshit. Not American and I know about this watermelon shit too. Just because you're ignorant of it doesn't mean it hasn't been used to generalise black people around the world.
Makes sense as Mexico is the US's neighbour so some of those stereotypes trickled down there. Though I couldn't name countries not related to america where this is a thing.
Let's not turn this thread about how you don't know about one of the most widespread terms for racism
He knew what he was doing, really? Can you elaborate how you know that?
Dude I'm sorry but the world is big and there are many countries in which we have no really idea of all these connotations, references, etc... There are so many cultures in this world and if nobody tells me that "watermelon" (in Italy just a summer fruit we like a lot) is something linked to some racist reference... well, how I'm supposed to know it??
