🇬🇧BEING BLACK IN LONDON: Black American Experience | American Couple Reacts to London Culture Shocks
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Asking someone in the UK where they're from is a conversation starter. Black people in this country normally are in touch with their family back in Africa or Caribbean, they speak on the phone and visit on a regular basis. When they ask an African-American about their roots, they don't do it to be rude, it just doesn't cross people's mind that you might not know.
Very true
Hmm this is interesting and makes me wonder what is taught in the UK schools about the US. Our 5th grader is going to learn about the American colonies in a few weeks. What do the UK teach about the U.S.?
I have a question when you refer into white Americans do you refer to them as British America if not then why you call all black Americans African Americans because I can guarantee 99.99% don't even know where Africa is the reason why I said that is because black Americans are as African as i am and im a me white British male
@@MrCoxy38 We call everyone from the USA 'American, I only used the term African- American on my previous comment to make a point. The o my reason I'm familiar with this specific term is because I heard it on tv and social media
@@TheDemouchetsREACTWhat does usa teach about uk?
The question 'Where are you from ?' In the U.K. most black people's ancestors arrived in England in the 1950s and 1960s. So the question is not an insult, it's curiosity.
Another massive misunderstanding is the use of the expression 'Boys' in the U.K. it just means guys, lads, fellas. It has no racial connection at all.
I’m white English from Nottingham and I’m 45, I can honestly say I’ve never known a time while I’ve been alive that interracial dating or marriage was a problem, it’s just such a normal thing to see here, in fact the family next door were black British/German, Marie who unfortunately has passed now when she was in her 80s had a white German father and a black British mother, I say black British because every black person I know who was born here describe themselves that way. London is so multicultural/racial you can literally throw a stone in any direction and you will find someone who is a different race/ ethnicity/speaks a different language it’s so diverse.
No black person here refers to themselves as black British that's a fake term.
@@carlin_agyeiso you know all my black friends do you?
Most people in Britain don't care about the colour of your skin. We judge people by who they are as a person. Be that as a friend or dating.
In the UK it's a thing of 'where you're from' even if you're white! They are so tribal with their accents, football teams, etc
I grew up in Brixton and am Slav, complete with super white skin and gray eyes. One of the joys of London is that everyone's Granny is from somewhere....we all talk about it, it is not offensive and gets you to work out what good food their mum will cook for you, Ghanaian Gravy, ackee and salt fish, guava jelly and hot pepper sauce on toast for breakfast.
Also dating within your ethnic group is impossible in London.....because we are all so mixed.....I have a Jewish Mother and Muslim father.....trust me there are many Mews in the world even in London, I would still be waiting to date anyone if such factors influenced my life.
I'm in London and met my wife about 15 years ago. We got married a few years later. Location wasn't important. We talked about it and travelled to visit those locations, but that's about it. The first time we realised that our marriage was in any way the slightest controversial was when we went to Oklahoma to visit a friend's wedding there. I'm white and my wife is black, and people there had a hard time understanding that we were, in fact, a couple.
Oooh Oklahoma is… still Oklahoma.😒 I believe that’s where the lady in the video is from.
@@TheDemouchetsREACT England is not color blind so don’t listen too anybody who tells you otherwise especially not no black American woman who just wants too swirl
I feel sorry for those Oklahomans... we are human and there is no p;ace for racism
I have an issue with African American that term was given to us in 1988 Im 57 our identities have been changed many times by the people who stole the Americas, I will believe my great grand who was born in 1899 who always let me know we have always been from her not many came her on a boat ride we were already here and so called Africans were already here.
Asking people their family history is really common in this part of England and it doesn't matter what colour your skin is you will get asked. My answer is paternal grandparents from Norway and maternal grandparents from West Country England, that is all they mainly what to know.
Coming from the U.S. you may be oversensitive to questions of ancestry.
Fyi, white people ask other white people where 'they are from.'
I have friends with parents/grandparents literally from all over Europe.
I knew a black guy who visited the US to see family for first time. He was called the “Englishman”.
Yes back in the 90s our impression of black Americans as black british was the cosby show, different world and oprah - very middle class, lawyers, doctors etc. Everything seemed so glamorous.
I loved that era!
This is really interesting, although i dont live in london. If someone says they are from the USA, you might ask where abouts in the USA but i wouldn't ask about where their family is from. Also london is very international and is very different to living in the rest of the UK. As far as i am concerned, if you are born in the UK, you are British regardless of skin colour. You may have non british ancestry but if you are british, you are british regardless. Hope this makes sense.
Also british itself isn't a colour or an ethnicity like English is. British is just a citizenship or a nationality
A lot of what she says reminds me of conversations I've had with French Canadians (I'm English Canadian). I've had almost the exactly same conversation with about half a dozen people who have travelled internationally. Growing up in Quebec they felt that they were French, not similar to other Canadians, etc. Having travelled to France (or other French-speaking countries) and returning, they all said nope, we're Canadian, we just speak French.
I feel that's the experience a lot of African Americans will have internationally. Outside of the US, you're just American.
Exactly us Carribeans came through slavery also guys DOnT FORGET THAT! We also don’t know exactly in Africa we came from so it that isn’t uniquely an African American experience
I live in UK & am classed as white, but look more Mediterranean ie Spanish/ Italian. I do not know my family history past 3 generations and don't care. I am British. I have dated people of various nationalities and ethnicity. I date a person and not their history. I do sometimes get asked where my family came from, but as a brit I know like others have said that this is just a conversation starter and nothing more.
And it’s funny how she moved too England and immediately became “open” too date outside her race even considering the massive amount of Black men in England that just goes too show the mindset
You love who you fall in love with....no matter what. It is the love of each other that counts in a relationship. To define love could mean a lot of things for people. To fall in love with someone is the greastest treasure one can find.
In general most places in the UK will not care what race you are because the UK is extremely diverse nowadays though where I live in Plymouth we don't get many Americans apart from a small of tourists
Lies There is racism in England
You are still 82 percent white. America is 60 percent white. We have a smidge of diversity over here too.
Great video, It gave me more of an understanding of how Americans view each other when it comes to race, here in the U.K, we had what we call the windrush generation where black people from numerous caribbean islands came over here to live and work in the 1950s and 60s . This is the reason we may ask "where are your family from originally" meaning which island.
I guess in the U.S they are viewed as just from African descendants. Please correct me if I am wrong on that.
Thank you for reacting to this ❤ I found it so educational. There is a lot here that had never even crossed my mind!
You’re welcome, Katy!
Honestly guys, I would be happy to show you around, give a few tips and share a drink or two with you, so by all means, see you in London :)
Im in love with your positive energy you’ll have to visit and if you do a great place to go is cornwall or devon they’re gorgeous ! Love from england💞🏴
We’ll keep this in mind. Much love!
I have to say - and this is something I find very sad and disturbing - but recently, and especially since 2020 and BLM, racial hyper-awareness is becoming more common in Britain again, and it's being imported from the USA. (They do say that if America sneezes, the Brits get a cold.) It's something that I thought we had largely successfully overcome by the 1990s. Critical race theory is an incredibly divisive and backward ideology, for example, and increasingly being taught in schools and universities; workplace DEI programmes promote it, too. We have an American college in London, for instance, that organises racially segregated social events, and this kind of thing is coming back in the name of 'social justice'. It's the opposite of MLK's dream. Fortunately you don't find it so much among ordinary working class people; we tend to get along without worrying about skin colour. However, it is being pushed by academics and professionals and is likely to filter down since it's being taught to young people. I do hope it doesn't take root or the outlook for racial harmony here in the UK will be bleak.
My black wife and I had to travel to the U.S. to find racism. My geography is better than my U.S. history, I didn't realise that Virginia was South.
We lived in the U.K., mainland Europe and had property in Africa, without any problem.
Kevin I find it very interesting that asians maintain they're culture and don't date outside of they're race/culture but yet black people be interracial dating with white people. Do you know why this is?
There is only one race the human race, the only problem is us humans, divide and conquer ❤
You do know that in the UK in the time of the crusades there were quite a lot of Black people in the UK these people weren’t slaves since slavery was abolished back in 1068 by the King. He found that when he ordered the country count of all the people in Grate Britain contained something in the region of 16% of all people were slaves. Then he made a law banning all slavery from that point on. I think it was stated that “Let no Man who is a slave step one foot onto England soil lest the owner be charged with money, given to me and the slave shall be free. ( or something like that). You notice the idea about the punishment would be monetary and presented to him or the Monarch! Is that good or just mercenary? Decide yourself)!!! From then there were a lot of black people living in the Uk. After that there is the whole story of who banned slavery world wide.
The Roman army also had a lot of Africans 1000 years before that. They wouldn't have been obvious as a distinct group, just another part of the population.
Racism still very much exists in the UK. But xenophobia is just as big. A black brit might sometimes get treated better than a white immigrant from Eastern Europe. Eastern europeans are kinda treated like Latino immigrants in USA.
You would never experience that in "where you from" in the Caribbean. We generally accept that we are African descendants, we don't necessarily know the specifics. I don't know why the Blacks in majority white societies want to upstage each other to try and prove they are blacker or more in tuned with their heritage, but if you tell me you from New York then that's it.
Oooh chile! I’ll never know. We (us) don’t tussle in the oppression olympics. We’re all descendants of the some of the strongest people in the history of this planet.
Much love!
We don't tend to have Black British, Asian British if you are born here or naturalised you are British skin colour doesn't matter
Even the ones that weren't born in britain with the foreign accents? Are they brits?
@@carlin_agyei If they hold a British Passport they are Brits perhaps I should re word that if they are eligible to hold a British passport they are Brits
Thank you so much, I never understood why it was sometimes taken as an offence to ask that question in the US when it's not so connoted in Europe. This is a very valid statement of fact and there is nothing to argue with it. So Thank you very much for this new thing I learned today :)
and to be going a little bit deeper, it always kind of embodied something in my mind that in the US there is too much of this "politically correctness" where I don't see asking a question as an injure but a real curiosity, not coming from racism or anything, and not being allowed to use certain words or ask certain questions always felt wrong to me, as I feel we all need to be able to ask questions to learn or celebrate any culture, disregarding if it is your own or not. But at least today I understood the actual issue with this specific question when asked to African-Americans
I would never have thought a shop in London would ever treat a black person differently. Just goes to show. Hearing the experiences of others is vital.
How much of treating a person different is down to being black and how much is it down to how the person treats the staff. I seen shop workers treat black people different depending how rude they are.
This as I am A first generation American born in England raised in Nyc with parents who raised in England with Jamaican parents
You're the same as slick rick
@@mrebk3358 Pretty much
I could only imagine the education you received from your parents! Were your parents apart of the Windrush generation?
@@TheDemouchetsREACT not them but there parents were who came there in the 50s my parents grew up in England
I think they are more used to Black Caribbean and Black African than Black American.
I guess it doesn't occur to people in London that some people don't know their national or ethnic origin. It's not something we generally come across, and so we don't realize it's sensitive issue for US Africans. Jamaicans aren't of course from Jamaica originally, but they've been there long enough to have a distinct and separate culture which gives them a basis for a national identity of origin.
I think people in London (and probably the whole UK) are much, much more chilled about race/nationality. Of course it wasn't always that way, but now, "casual everyday" racism is pretty much a thing of the past. (There's always gonna be one or two a-holes, but they get called out pretty quickly by folk).
Caribbeans and Black Americans share the same story of origin and oppression.
She learned a lot! I’m glad she went. It seems it changed her perspective and some about her previous experiences. Reality tv? Yucky. (I am also noticing Mr Demouchet bringing up food whether it’s in the video or not, I wonder what his focus will be while travelling 😂)
We already have it planned out, family😂 There will be a video just for the food tours he wis going to have us on.
Your ancestors' African origins are in your DNA so you can find out your origins through ancestry DNA testing. If this is important to your personal identity then it is worth doing.
Liked, subscribed, and commenting due to Your words combined with her video. Thank you.
Welcome to the family!
Touristy areas tend to be the most patient and welcoming to tourists. Brits may not look approachable but most are polite so even if they don’t want to talk to you they’ll be polite to you and might even help you a bit. Best place to strike up a conversation is in a pub, at bingo or at a community centre cafe. 😅 The, “where are you from” is fine it’s the, “where are you really from” that’s rude af.
Yes because after the first answer, I don’t know what to tell you. Do you need the address to the hospital?😅
@@TheDemouchetsREACT I start trolling at that point because I’ve been dealing with this nonsense for years and years. I usually say with a straight face, “Oh, Mars” and just double down until they walk away.
Great video 👍 Interesting question about heritage I think
some people ask the question and some don't.😊
If your black and your parents are from Africa and came to Britain then you will know where in Africa you from, but lots of our parents, grandparents are Caribbean and lots of Caribbean islands don’t keep good ancestral records and slaves obviously weren’t seen as human so they weren’t trying to keep names and connections to Africa the slave owners.
It could be quite contentious as some Africans ancestors may have worked within the enslavement of people from the interior of Africa as Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Senegal , Ivory Coast must have been involved in one form or another so the experience is a tough one to deal with.
I understand what you are saying but regardless of if you can trace your tree back or not your ancestors will be African even if you don’t know specifically probably west African as most where taken from there and by the way most blacks in the uk don’t know where in Africa they are from like for me I’m 41 from Britain and I only recently discovered where in Africa I’m from because I did a dna test.
4:29 Heritage question yes
Most black people in Britain will say the Caribbean. They cannot go further back than that, just as most in the US
cannot connect back to family in Africa.
The same happened to me when I visited (I'm Latin-American) "Where are you from?".. "The US"
"No I mean where are you FROM?"... "Uhhh.. California"
"No, I mean where are your parents from?"... "Ohhhh you want to know specifics about my ethnicity" That just made me feel self-conscious about my race for the first time but I know they had no ill will lol
7:03 I appreciate what Sierra just said about the reason that the term African American is so important and I agree completely.
7:17 this lady is gorgeous, I have to say, wow
Foundational Black American FBA✊🏾🇺🇸 BaBY …
3:45 Yep cultural breakdown of people of africa .
I don’t think she was saying, she feels less than it was more of a case that she thought other people looked down on her. The UK is a class based country because of the royal family.
People often believe Black Americans operate in an inferiority complex or have a victim mentality, especially when we speak about our lived experiences.
24:31 Rap used to be decent now it just Has a lot of bad undertones today. The rap style back in the late nineteen eighties on early 1990s was good. Now.. I don't know
In Northern England we call it That London.
I invented Trees and Teabags
My dad looks like a small Mike Tyson.
I am not Black so whats goin on there?
I have a 1974 Lambretta and have a Northern soul record collection😊
I mean, having said all that, I must admit that I think there is a bit more systemic racism in the UK compared to France, but it is very hard to say as this is a very recent thing that has been openly discussed so widely since the BLM movement. And I wouldn't be fair if I took what I think to be true for face value in France, I did ask a friend of mine, he said that he did not feel like racism was a big issue for him in his experience growing up in France.
Am African and highly against international dating because my extremely sad history won't allow permit that is like suicide homicide contaminate bloodline... if you're black and you really know your history you won't dare.... love yourselves first family
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