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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 02:50:23 JST Adrianna Tan

   Ha, this is word for word exactly my first experience on my first visit to Europe (Austria) as a 14 year old.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 03:10:18 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Every time I post stuff like this someone goes yeah but it’s that place, this place is better

     Yeah it also happened to in my this and that place

     As a person who is not American, I’ll never believe it when someone says ‘America is more racist’ if you won’t even let people tell you about their experiences with your countries but you apparently know all about being a minority in America as well

     Subtoot for a very large group of people here

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 03:14:20 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Carrie Shanafelt

     @carrideen I’ve had some incredibly unsettling experiences over just four days in Copenhagen. But I’ve been told that it’s a post racial society and if anything happened to me there it must be all my fault

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     Carrie Shanafelt (carrideen@c18.masto.host)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 03:14:21 JST Carrie Shanafelt

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     @skinnylatte White people in the US love talking about Scandinavian liberalism, but Iceland is the only place I have ever been denied service in multiple businesses because I walked in with a Turkish friend. It was shocking. If people talked to us at all it was to warn me not to bring my friend to the public swimming facilities with me.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 03:14:37 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Rainer Zufall

     @rainerzufall_le mid 00s for me

     Still too many fucking ni haos on the streets today

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     Rainer Zufall (rainerzufall_le@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 03:14:38 JST Rainer Zufall

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     @skinnylatte If I had to guess, as a German, this story feels very much like the 90s. (Not saying, it's not happening anymore, but I think it's less common.)

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 03:22:35 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Arratoon

     @arratoon haha yes, it was very confusing why they thought he was a role model

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     Arratoon (arratoon@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 03:22:37 JST Arratoon

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     @skinnylatte You for introduced to Kurt Waldheim? Oof.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 03:23:13 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Carrie Shanafelt

     @carrideen yep. 100% guarantee the people who defend this will say ‘your friend should have become fluent in the language in 2 months’ because apparently not speaking the language means they can treat people inhumanly.

     I very much dislike the ‘integrate or be ignored or dismissed’ perspective, they didn’t do that when they colonized the world.

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     Carrie Shanafelt (carrideen@c18.masto.host)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 03:23:14 JST Carrie Shanafelt

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     @skinnylatte Yikes. My Turkish friend was in Reykjavik all summer for a research fellowship and reached a point where he just stopped leaving his apartment for anything. I cooked for him while he was visiting and ended up leaving him a bunch of frozen meals because he stopped trying going to restaurants. If I got us takeout by myself we could eat.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 03:55:25 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Which Witch Is Hayley

     @crzwdjk @WitchHayley as my friend, an immigrant in Stockholm likes to say, the only thing worse than racism there is the many white Americans who live there and go ‘wow! There is no racism here!’ and then the racists get very proud of themselves and say ‘look these Americans say we are less racist than them’

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     crzwdjk ✅ (crzwdjk@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 03:55:27 JST crzwdjk ✅

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     @WitchHayley @skinnylatte They did finally get rid of their annual blackface festival a few years ago, but the fact that they had an annual blackface festival until a few years ago certainly says something. Also the fact that there was violence against the people advocating to get rid of the blackface.

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     Which Witch Is Hayley (witchhayley@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 03:55:28 JST Which Witch Is Hayley

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     @skinnylatte I never imagined it would happen in the ¨tolerant¨ Netherlands, where there are citizens by birth with Asian ancestry. It happens even there.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 04:25:39 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @pencilears I’m certain the minority kid would be deported even if they were from there, if this happened. The power dynamics are very different

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     ✨pencilears✨ (pencilears@mastodon.eternalaugust.com)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 04:25:40 JST ✨pencilears✨

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     @skinnylatte I think this is the kind of shit you can only get up to in a post-violence zero-tolerance society.

     Like, only if you have zero fear of the minority kid coming over to immediately kick your ass, would anyone be so bold in their racist bullshit.

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     draNgNon (drangnon@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 06:32:32 JST draNgNon

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     @skinnylatte jfc

     That sounds like primary school to me. I'm sure I even did that, early on.

     We all grew out of it and/or learned better by third grade. I guess that's when kids become aware of how that shit actually hurts others. Then there's mortification that it actually happened at all. Having to interact in person with whoever is getting othered is a powerful counter and a strong lesson on impressionable kids.

     I guess the people you ran into never learned that? Or somehow were never sensitized to the impact of their taunts. Ugh

     I hope you weren't that hurt by it, although I can't imagine not being

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 07:12:18 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Rainer Zufall

     @RnDanger @rainerzufall_le sometimes I post stuff like this because there’s a couple of guys in my replies who are always on about how they don’t understand why I haven’t left the shithole they is California for Germany. Totally unprompted! Like, I have never expressed an interest in moving there. But they are convinced there is something wrong with me for not wanting to do this.

     On random posts too! ‘Here’s a post about a job in California, where I live’ ‘too bad California is a fascist shithole, only low IQ immigrants go to the U.S. instead of Europe’ (they’re avowed leftists apparently) or ‘everyone worth anything is moving to Germany’

     It’s a very strange mix of antifa anti-imperialist.. eugenics?

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     2xfo (rndanger@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 07:12:19 JST 2xfo

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     • Rainer Zufall

     @skinnylatte @rainerzufall_le
     I was in Berlin near an election, i want to guess about 2014, and there were racist and sexist campaign signs up all over the place with hand drawn graffiti to make them even worse, and at least once a large group of very loud men came to a public square to sing their sieg heils - to most people's disamusement at least. Still, it was very unsettling
     I was there ten days and that happened where i was eating. I've never seen anything like that happen in forty plus years of living in the US

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 08:39:08 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • draNgNon

     @draNgNon these were older people. Like people in their 50s

     I can’t imagine being that type of adult but some places sort of normalize that

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     draNgNon (drangnon@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 08:47:30 JST draNgNon

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     @skinnylatte cannot relate at all to any of it.

     Your experiences are legion, I hope you aren't still getting that here in the Bay area, but from my other Asian friends I know my hope is probably vain