i'm getting stared at lot lately

[Roverlord off road spares]

I noticed that when when l go out to the shops or even just yesterday when l went to see the neurologist yesterday in Blackburn. l was with my support worker a young 23 yrs old, l caught glimpes of people staring at us, some even had an evil look on their faces, but turned quickly we l made eye contact with them. I said my support worker gee as if people haven't seen an old man in a wheel chair before." She agreed "people are strange".
. Then It came to me, my support worker is a darkest skinned Sudanese woman and we are in a predominately Caucasian area.
I never really noticed her skin colour but it seems some out there have a problem with it, well that's their problem.

[Saitch]

It's a funny old world, isn't it.
My blond, very pale skinned, 6'4" nephew noticed the same thing when he was working in some indigenous communities.

[jonesfam]

We don't notice it much now, or just don't care, but
When we first got the kids we would notice when we pulled up somewhere & 5 Aboriginal kids piled out of car calling a white couple Mum & Dad we would get some strange looks.
Used to **** SWMBO off but didn't worry me.
I think some, a lot, of people have trouble with anything that is outside the normal.
Jonesfam

[Roverlord off road spares]

It's a funny old world, isn't it.
My blond, very pale skinned, 6'4" nephew noticed the same thing when he was working in some indigenous communities.
when I was in Japan we would get people standing behind us whilst another tried to take pics. So sprung a few,
got some school kids harr h me and asked for my autograph, they wee on an english lesson excursion, so i signed it with a drawering of a kangeroo, that stuffed the little terrors. When they asked what's you name. I replied Mario. the hole group had shocked and dumfounded expressions. When l said "like Super Nintendo", they all smiled and got exited.

[Saitch]

One of my nieces and her hubby both have Aboriginal heritage. They have three sons, one fair skinned, one medium and the youngest, quite dark.
The young fella taunts his older, pale brother with terms such as 'Honky'.
I did mention to the young bloke that his brother was quite a bit bigger and stronger than he was and he replied 'Yea, but 'e can't catch me, ay!'[biggrin]

Their mum, who is fair and blond, does get some looks from people when she is with the boys.
I can walk around with her and no one notices. I can walk around with her hubby, who is obviously indigenous, and no one notices. However, if they walk around together, a lot of people notice.
A matter of perception, I suppose. Perhaps misconception?
Dunno, don't care.

[rick130]

One of my nieces and her hubby both have Aboriginal heritage. They have three sons, one fair skinned, one medium and the youngest, quite dark.
The young fella taunts his older, pale brother with terms such as 'Honky'.
I did mention to the young bloke that his brother was quite a bit bigger and stronger than he was and he replied 'Yea, but 'e can't catch me, ay!'[biggrin]

Their mum, who is fair and blond, does get some looks from people when she is with the boys.
I can walk around with her and no one notices. I can walk around with her hubby, who is obviously indigenous, and no one notices. However, if they walk around together, a lot of people notice.
A matter of perception, I suppose. Perhaps misconception?
Dunno, don't care.Mum said she used to get looks and an "oh" with me as a baby in the stroller.
I was very dark with curly black hair, and a lot of people in town knew dad who wasn't that dark.
Dad always joked I couldn't have been the milkman's as he was blonde and the baker was a redhead [emoji23]

[Eevo]

Mum said she used to get looks and an "oh" with me as a baby in the stroller.
I was very dark with curly black hair, and a lot of people in town knew dad who wasn't that dark.
Dad always joked I couldn't have been the milkman's as he was blonde and the baker was a redhead [emoji23]
you're adopted.

[PhilipA]

Whenever you are a minority in a country then you are stared at.

I can remember way back in North Vietnam BT( before Tourism) we stopped in the country to have lunch. Within 10 minutes we had over 50 children and teenagers surrounding us and some pulling the hair on my arms. It was initially pretty alarming but defused when I took videos of them and showed them.

In Bangkok whenever I had my blond daughter in the car motorcyclists used to stop next to us and hold onto door handles to stare at my daughter.

It's the human curiosity to be curious when something out of the ordinary comes along.
Regards PhilipA

[RHS58]

Once did some work in a remote indigenous community. One of my co-workers was a rather tall, rather dark Indian chap. Local kids pointed and threw stones at him, calling him a “black bastard”.
Go figure.

[Tins]

Unlikely, I know, but perhaps it's just that your carer is beautiful, Mario.

[DieselLSE]

Unlikely, I know, but perhaps it's just that your carer is beautiful, Mario.
Or Mario is...

[theelms66]

Or Mario is...Maybe they think she is married to Mario and after his estate [emoji41]

[DiscoMick]

I remember being in a village in the back blocks of Burma and meeting a young and very dark skinned couple at church whose baby was VERY blond. It's just genetics - anything is possible.

[NavyDiver]

I remember being in a village in the back blocks of Burma and meeting a young and very dark skinned couple at church whose baby was VERY blond. It's just genetics - anything is possible.

I did read once our family trees are very upside down as it can almost always be guaranteed mum is mum [bigwhistle]

While in multiple other non English speaking countries I found the country kids would often approach me to try a few words. My tiny statue and BIG frizzy hair get a lot of funny looks even now[biggrin]. If I add my daughter to my arm I often laugh at the Second look some people take Mario. I did ask a 60 year old who looked like a 60 year old if his wife who looked like a 30 year old but is 3 years older than he is, If she was his daughter? He was very happy to correct me as he should be the very happy and lucky man.

[DiscoMick]

I met an American in his 70s who had a very beautiful Thai wife in her 30s when I lived in Thailand. They seemed happy.
I knowa local retired bloke in his 60s who met his Thai wife online. They have been together for about 20 years and seem happy. She is an Aussie citizen, has a good job and could have dumped him long ago, but hasn't, so it must be a real relationship.