New pet peeve…STARING. People stare a lot out here, and with no shame. I am getting a bit tired of people staring at me like I have a third eye. At first I accepted it because, hey, I am foreign but it happens so often that now it is just plain annoying. Now I know what super tall and super small people feel like when people blatantly stare at them.
I know we stare in the States but one, it is deemed rude, and two, most people try to hide the fact that they are staring, I know I do. Maybe here it is not considered rude to stare. I have tried to ignore the staring but people are just so obvious. Today this guy stopped walking right in front of me and stared at me. He almost broke his neck staring to stare at me until the last possible second. I’m thinking, Don’t you have somewhere you were going…isn’t your staring break going to make you late? Ladies will stare straight in my eyeballs and when I smile to reduce some of the awkwardness they keep their straight countenance and keep staring.
Yesterday, there was this tall Black guy on the street. Of course I wanted to catch a glance of him because I am still on my “Search for the Afros” but I noticed this other lady staring at him hard and I didn’t want to act like her. The lady almost ran into a pole, she was staring so hard. Granted there are not a lot of Black people in Buenos Aires but it just amazes me how much of an attraction we seem to be to so many people. It is as if the majority of the people here have never seen a dark “skinneded” person before. This could very well be the case and if so, that is amazing.
After being somewhere for a while you want to start feeling comfortable, like you belong to some extent, and it is hard to get that feeling when people look at you like you are so dynamically different. Hey my blood is red too guys!
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