Differences in humor between blacks and whites

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[–]Minedwe 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Race isn't so much the issue here, rather culture, I think, and environment (although race and ethnciity DEFINITELY plays a role in both these things). Zoomer humor (AKA nonsensical shitposts and other stuff) is hilarious to me and people my age, often even transcending race, but boomers, millenials, etc don't find it as funny. I don't really know how humor works on a biological/psychological level, but I'm sure there are explanations for this type of stuff in there.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, there seems to be a lot of evidence to suggest that culture is the dominant factor with humor across cultures in general.

The main thing that jumps out at me is that blacks seem to not even comprehend 'offbeat' white humor. As I said in the post, it appears to me that not only do they not find it funny, they don't even process it. This, however, is just my subjective judgment and I have no way to prove it.

Blacks, and black men especially, have a touchy, masculine pride about them. They reject any humor that is self-deprecating or even just 'silly'. It's easy to why someone with touchy pride wouldn't be into that kind of humor. On the other hand, black women aren't much different in their sense of humor. Perhaps harder to grasp is that blacks don't seem to like 'nonsense' or 'random' humor. Certain types of whites seem very adverse to this type of humor too, but with blacks it's near unanimous opposition.

[–]Minedwe 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ive noticed this stuff too. Occasionally blacks will find that stuff funny, but the ghetto type blacks and theri cultural extensions don't. This also seems to apply to wiggers that imitate or hang out with them, although less so.