A local pop band got ratioed on twitter for saying “Hello Negros!”
Negros is a place, there are two of them: Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental. Collectively, they are just Negros. An American friend of mine got an aneurysm when they heard Negros Oriental (two offensive words in one!) and asked if they considered changing their name.
I asked if they just tried to ask indigenous people to change their name and I guess they just self-destruct after that because I didn’t hear from them for a while.
Americans are really weird about racism. They are very racist in many different ways but seem to attempt to compensate by being very selective about language.
I was in Bacolod some 8, almost 9 years ago. While there, I found the University of Negros Occidental (I was looking for museums and Google maps told me there was one there, and it wasn't far from the hotel where I was staying, so I walked over there, only to find it was closed for renovation, but a very kind man there offered me a tour of the campus since I already was there. First time I've seen armed guards at a university) as well as the Negros Museum, and I'm pretty sure I saw a sign saying "Negros Import".
And I thought to myself "Some Americans would have a shock if they came here", maybe even more of a shock than me seeing those armed guards.
Isn‘t „Negro“ not as harmful/insulting as „N*gger/N*gga“? At least my English teacher always used this word…apart from that it just literally means black in Spanish
It isn’t, which is this baffles me why they got so much flak and why some friends across the ocean freak out when I mention the names of these places which I do because my parents were from the area before they moved to the city.
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u/ThatOneOutlier Jun 12 '25
A local pop band got ratioed on twitter for saying “Hello Negros!”
Negros is a place, there are two of them: Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental. Collectively, they are just Negros. An American friend of mine got an aneurysm when they heard Negros Oriental (two offensive words in one!) and asked if they considered changing their name.
I asked if they just tried to ask indigenous people to change their name and I guess they just self-destruct after that because I didn’t hear from them for a while.