Why is "black face makeup" generally regarded as offensive or discriminatory to African-American ethnic groups in the United States and Canada?

After all, America is an immigrant country. If you paint your face black, this behavior turns other people's pain into daily behavior. After all, black face makeup is a sign of racial discrimination, which easily makes many people feel that their dignity has been hurt.

American immigrants include Asian yellow people from the other side of the Bering Strait, as well as Spanish, French and British. Around the18th century, millions of Africans were sold to America to work as coolies in plantations and mines. Unfortunately, these African-Americans are inferior to whites in education, life skills and social status. Racial discrimination is a long-standing human right in the United States. Ethnic minorities face discrimination in employment and salary, and their situation is even poorer. The hardships of their ethnic experience are still fresh in their minds, and generations have been struggling for survival.

The so-called "black makeup" originated after the American Civil War, which refers to the way that non-black ethnic groups paint their faces black to imitate blacks and dress up as black whites to perform songs and dances. When performing, actors paint their faces all black or dark brown, usually with big mouths and thick lips. In the early years, this was used by many actors to satirize the black community, and it often appeared in black cartoons. After the rise of the American civil rights movement in the 1960s, black makeup was regarded as black cartoons and facial makeup, which deepened the stereotype of this ethnic group and gradually disappeared. Although this kind of makeup can sometimes be seen in other countries, in the United States and Canada, black face makeup is usually regarded as offensive to blacks, with racial discrimination, and is an unconscious racial act.

Therefore, since there is such a traditional taboo, we should pay attention to it in our daily life to avoid making such mistakes.