[Sca-cooks] lands

[Lord Boroghul Khara]

Reminds me of my year in Holland (1977-1978)
While the family was on a road trip from our Village of Nieukoop touring
Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Germany, I found myself face to face with
a couple of things that struck me as just plain wierd as a kid, but had me
laughing when I saw them touched upon by Whoopie Goldberg in later years.
The first:   "These people haven't seen a black person since Hannibal came
through"

and "Yes, we have seen in American documentaries how life is for the black
person.  Tell us what it is like to live in the Ghetto, and please, eat this
watermelon, we got it special for you"

No, I didn't have that quite happen in those exact words, but the kids in my
village did call me "Zwarte Piete!" around December 5th.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephanie Drake" <steldr at home.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] lands


> My husband tells a story about going to basic training and a gentleman
from
> NJ asked him if we "still have a lot of trouble with Indians" here.  On
the
> other hand, when I went to Europe about 17 years ago (gack - has it been
> that long??????) the connection everyone made when they heard I was from
> Dallas was JFK (not JR which we had been warned to expect.)
>
> Mercedes from Tulsa, Oklahoma
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <CorwynWdwd at aol.com>
> To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 1:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] lands
>
>
> > In a message dated 10/3/2001 2:36:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > vavroom at bmee.net writes:
> >
> > > In the mid-80's while travelling in Belgium, upon telling the person
> that I
> > >  was from Quebec, I was asked if I came by bus or by train...  <shrug>
> > >
> > >  They also thought we lived in igloos and had sleigh dogs (commonly
> found
> > >  assumption still in the US about Canada!)
> > >
> > >  <shrug>  It's a bit 'o fun.
> >
> > That's Okay, we get people who are being moved here by their companies
> > calling our chamber of commerce asking if we have indoor toilets in our
> > homes. We seem to owe a LOT to such shows as "The Dukes of Hazard"....
> >
> > I also have a friend who works for a German company who swears some of
the
> > people they've sent expect Indian attacks.
> >
> > I swear, if there are any, it wasn't any of my kin.....
> >
> > Corwyn
> >
> >
> > "Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public
> mind." --
> > General William Westmoreland
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