why do people of a race different from your own think you know every thing about...

[Patrick]

...your races popular culture? for example say the teacher asks a question about africa. why do half the people look at me as if i was born and raised there? or my non black friends ask me the meaning to a ghetto slang word like i have a lil wayne dictionary? does anyone else have this problem? jw

 

[wtptoo]

Sorry I don't know. I have the opposite experience of people claiming they know more about my race than I do.

 

[Unƒazed™]

That, my friend, is called ignorance. They are ignorant. No better way to put it. No one can possibly no everything about something they are not. It's called "take a walk in my shoes". Until you have experienced the same ordeal(s) that people from a different race has experienced, your own comments and thoughts are ignorant.

 

[Arzü]

Because you're expected to know more about it. When we were talking about sweatshops in Bangladesh .. who do you turn to? NAZ! And yes I didnt know anymore than the rest .. how would I know I dont work in a sweatshop. I'm not from Dhaka where the sweatshops are.