Thursday, April 28, 2011

Albinos in South Africa

I was searching on youtube about Africa and found a video of an albino girl living in South Africa. She talks about how her father would have nothing to do with her because of her condition, but her mother was just surprised when she was born.  She found another family who had an albino son and in that case again the father left. The girl is going over to help this mother gain knowledge about people being albino and prepare her for the gossip. The lady said that people have thought she slept with a white man and that's how her child became white. A lot of them don't know what albino is. The young albino girl talks about how she doesn't want a boyfriend because a lot of them just want to "try it out" and then dump her. A bunch of albino people gather together and just hang out, the girl says she forgets about her color and they just have fun. Even after all the racism about her color the young girl goes to bed at night and dreams of a family with four children and she hopes that they will be black.

Being albino is the loss of pigment in your skin. I can't imagine what it would be like giving birth in Africa to a child that turned out white. As I gathered information from the video a lot of them didn't know what being albino was and they had their own speculations. As I browsed a few other videos I got the conclusion albinos are not treated friendly in Africa. The other videos were about albinos being killed for their body parts which is absolutely horrible. In the United States it is different to see an albino but not like it would be in Africa because it is a total skin change. This girl said that she had blue eyes, but a lot of white people who are albino I heard of them having red eyes.
This imagine I found on google.com of an African albino person.

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