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How are Blacks from Africa vs Blacks from America or Europe treated in Thailand? 🇺🇸
Traveling overseas can teach you more about your privileges, your sense of self, and the world in general if you choose to let it. When we sit in comfort and let YouTube or the TV, and people on it, feed us their perspectives, we will never learn or come to understand the world’s distinct qualities. Sometimes the views on YouTube or the TV news will often give you a profoundly skewed outlook of a country.
These days I want to encourage you to never use the media as a critical source of credible information, but try to find out for yourself. Though these outlets can be educational, they can also provide misinformation about cultures, religions, traditions and people. This is true for many countries that I have visited over the past years including Thailand and the Philippines.
This piece is going to touch on my experience with “race,” and nationality in some countries. One common question that I’ve gotten from family and friends back home in the U.S. is how am I perceived by the locals whenever I travel to Thailand and the Philippines?
