Black People React To White Folks Admitting They Don’t Wash Their Legs Or Bath Regularly

[00:00:00]White people don't use washcloths.

[00:00:02]Do you use washcloths?

[00:00:04]>> Wow, you don't use a washcloth either.

[00:00:07]>> What do you use?

[00:00:07]>> I might be one of the only whites I know that uses a washcloth.

[00:00:09]>> What is a washcloth though?

[00:00:10]>> A little tiny towel in the shower that you use soap to get the reaches of your body, not just soap in your hand. You use your for your back and >> Well, I use uh uh >> another joke. White people don't wash their legs.

[00:00:21]>> Wash your >> Have you ever washed your legs? No, see, white people don't wash their legs.

[00:00:24]>> Wow.

[00:00:25]>> No, I don't wash my legs in the shower.

[00:00:26]No, I don't wash my feet in the shower.

[00:00:28]Feet are self-cleaning. Yes, they got to get in the toes.

[00:00:31]>> Yes, three times a day, every time I shower.

[00:00:34]>> No, I don't wash my feet in the shower, but if I notice my feet are dirty before bed, that's when I wash them.

[00:00:38]>> Not really. I guess I just like take some paper towels and just like dab them. I do scrub them once in a while when I'm like feeling gross. And also, they get scrubbed when I get my toenails done.

[00:00:48]>> Yes, you got to get in the crevices and get all the toe jam out.

[00:00:51]>> Sometimes, they let me know what they need and I give it to them.

[00:00:54]>> This is exactly what we mean when we say hygiene is cultural because what?

[00:00:58]>> [laughter] >> What time of day do you shower? I'll go first. I shower daily, at least once a day, sometimes more, right?

[00:01:08]People ask me, Jillian, are you open to dating outside of your race or do you date outside of your race? And I'd love to wholeheartedly say yes, absolutely, without a doubt. But then I remember that hygiene is cultural.

[00:01:23]And not all cultures have good hygiene.

[00:01:27]And then I decide maybe I'll just be alone for the rest of [laughter] my life.

[00:01:31]>> Do you wash your legs in the shower?

[00:01:33]>> No.

[00:01:33]>> No.

[00:01:34]>> I do it if I have like plans.

[00:01:35]>> Maybe I need to work on that.

[00:01:36]>> My legs, bro, I wash my whole body.

[00:01:38]>> Yes, yes, and yes. What kind of question is that?

[00:01:41]>> You have to, you have to. So, why your legs specific?

[00:01:43]>> Because I find in the white English culture, people say there's no need.

[00:01:46]>> They don't wash their legs?

[00:01:46]>> Nah, nah.

[00:01:47]>> Like your legs like down here?

[00:01:49]>> What other legs you know, bro?

[00:01:49]>> The only thing as a man that you should pay special attention to is this area and the little armpits and that's it.

[00:01:55]>> So, you see washing legs as like a effeminate thing.

[00:01:58]>> I'm not going to go on record saying it's effeminate, but I've never seen a man take special care for their legs, you know what I'm saying?

[00:02:04]>> How come they don't wash their legs?

[00:02:05]>> Jaden said it's not needed.

[00:02:06]>> Well, that one is strange, man. It's cuz once I go shower, I got to wash from my head to my toe.

[00:02:10]>> I even wash the walls to make sure.

[00:02:11]>> I really want to say no, unless I shave.

[00:02:13]>> Yeah, yeah, I do. Yeah, what what doesn't everybody?

[00:02:16]>> No, no, a lot of white people don't.

[00:02:18]A lot of white people don't, apparently.

[00:02:20]>> Wash their legs IN THE SHOWER.

[00:02:22]>> [laughter] >> THAT'S A BIT IMAGINATIVE. I WASH my thighs. Obviously, I do the balls, do the thighs, but sometimes I'll leave the shins and that round, then I wash my feet. So, yeah, weird one, that.

[00:02:35]>> Hi guys, welcome back to the channel.

[00:02:37]Hope you are all doing well. So, in today's video, now I've come across a series of videos where people are saying that hygiene is cultural, and I've been wondering what they meant by that, right? And so, I decided to do a little diving on this issue, and I've come across very interesting takes with whitey people thinking that black people are doing way too much and being over hygienic, and some black people thinking that whitey people are doing the barest minimum when it comes to hygiene. Now, this is not to shame any particular group at all. This is a discussion that is going on online, and so this video is to just throw more light on it, and also to help others understand. If you've come across this phrase where people are saying hygiene is cultural, you understand where it's coming from. Now, I'm searching a few videos. Let's watch and give commentary at the end. All credit goes to the owners of these original videos. And if you're coming across my channel for the very first time, my name is Filomena.

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[00:03:46]>> My children probably bathe maybe once a week. Maybe. And they don't And when they don't use any soap. Michael's a fourth Japanese. He thinks they have to bathe every day. Can you Because why would you need to bathe Why are they dirty? We're children. I'm not going to fight with my kids over little stupid things like bathing. So like So you don't make them bathe every day.

[00:04:07]You'll just do when they want to once a week. If it's once a week, you know, like now they swim So they swim. We have a pool and they swim in the summer, so I guess we call that bathing, so it's probably even less than that.

[00:04:18]>> Wow.

[00:04:19]The pressure is getting wetter.

[00:04:23]>> Hygiene is definitely cultural. To say you don't wash your children and you allow your children to do whatever they want to do, and because they go into a pool and they swim in the summer, those are your bathing days is absolutely diabolical.

[00:04:38]What about the chlorine water? Sweat and chlorine are considered a bath now. Got it. To justify this by saying you're providing your kids autonomy, you can do that. You can teach your children how to be self-dependent and self-reliant and make decisions without having them smell like funk. I think the funniest part about this video is her saying, "He's a He's a He's a fourth Japanese, so he thinks they need to wash every day." Yes.

[00:05:05]Yes, they do.

[00:05:07]Take a page out of his book or his grandfather's book, wherever it was, and wash those damn kids. Wow.

[00:05:13]For me, being black, there's so many things I find wrong with this, mainly that your children need structure, routine, and guidance as to how to bathe, clean, and maintain themselves as adults. If you're telling your children who are 7, 10, and 15 they don't need to shower, especially after playing outside all day and being in a pool, imagine why they smell the way they do when it rains outside.

[00:05:38]>> Why do so many white people get on podcasts, get on TikTok, and talk about how their children don't bathe or how they don't bathe? I feel like there's something to discuss here about whiteness and how it is viewed as clean and pure and better and primary and default. And really the history goes to show that white people have always been disgusting. Indigenous people, African people, they were bathing and they they many of them noted that the first like sign of Europeans was their stench that they were just putrid. And I do think a lot of the reason why people of color in America are so clean, smell so good, have to have their hair done, have to have their makeup done is because of upward mobility because the standard for them is so much higher than it is for white people. Like white women can just walk into Target with a messy bun and sweatpants and and it's like, oh look at her like she could be a multimillionaire. Her Her Her husband could be an entrepreneur. Yet a black woman is not afforded that same luxury.

[00:06:29]So I really feel like white women are just rubbing it in, rubbing that level of privilege in when they go on podcast or come on TikTok and talk about how their kids don't bathe. Like that is disgusting. I'm sorry. I grew up taking a bath every single night. My parents brushed my hair every single night, brushed my hair every single morning. Um it wasn't a big of a deal. When I got older, I was given deodorant and face wash and that like I have actually been showering twice a day often like especially in the summer morning and night showers. Especially if I'm pregnant, sometimes I would shower three times a day. Like wash yourself. Wash yourself. My sons do not go to bed unless they're clean. I don't want their dirty bodies in their bed and then every time they get into bed, it's dirty from the day? That's just my own opinion, but I do think that the larger discussion here about whiteness and why people why white people love to bring it up, love to talk about it. It's like they know somewhere that they are given the power to not have to bathe their kids and still be given so many privileges.

[00:07:26]>> Every black girl grew up knowing being clean wasn't just about hygiene. It was about dignity. From the time we were little, we were taught that being clean wasn't optional. We used washcloths, exfoliated, and slathered on lotion like it was law.

[00:07:42]>> Do you use a washcloth?

[00:07:43]>> No.

[00:07:43]>> Me, either.

[00:07:44]>> I think that's disgusting.

[00:07:46]>> Am I scrubbing my body with a washcloth?

[00:07:48]>> Yeah.

[00:07:49]>> Absolutely not.

[00:07:50]>> I think we're I think >> That is like a UTI waiting to happen.

[00:07:53]>> the minority. I really do.

[00:07:54]>> People use washcloths?

[00:07:55]>> I think so.

[00:07:56]>> Like for their body?

[00:07:57]>> Yeah.

[00:07:58]>> What do you mean?

[00:07:59]>> Like what are you washing your body with?

[00:08:00]>> [laughter] >> My hands.

[00:08:02]>> For black women, hygiene has always been more than just self-care. It's perception. Harmful stereotypes have painted black people as unclean. These narratives weren't just offensive, they shaped the way we navigated the world.

[00:08:14]Hygiene, amongst other things, became a collective responsibility, not just a personal one. Ironically, African Moors significantly influenced hygiene practices in medieval Europe.

[00:08:26]>> You lather up your hands and then use your hands.

[00:08:31]>> What?

[00:08:32]>> How do you use the soap?

[00:08:34]>> Many Europeans avoided bathing due to superstitions linking water to disease.

[00:08:38]Queen Isabella the First of Castile claimed she had only bathed twice in her life, once at birth and once before her wedding. European nobility at the time often practiced dry hygiene, such as changing linen undergarments frequently and using perfumes and scented cloths to mask odor.

[00:08:56]>> You just going to put the perfume on the must.

[00:09:00]We don't do that.

[00:09:01]>> Unlike our non-black counterparts, we aren't afforded the luxury of being seen as individuals. When one of us is judged, often that judgment extends to all of us. In our communities, we're often harder on one another. There's this pressure to be spotless. Racism made hygiene a defense mechanism. Ashy skin, unacceptable. Smelling anything less than fresh, never an option. But then we grow up and we hear our non-black counterparts casually admit that they don't shower every day.

[00:09:29]>> I only take like one shower every 6 days, so >> I made the conscious decision to stop washing my hands. I think when I was in college. Was it college for you?

[00:09:37]>> I don't know. That's That's when I remember it because one of my good friends from college also doesn't wash her hands. And it was like, "Oh, we had that bonding experience." She One day I was like, "I'm I'm just not going to wash them." She was like, "I'm not either. I don't wash my hands." I don't really trust people that wash their hands because Well, one, I don't think it does anything.

[00:09:54]>> And yet, their personal hygiene habits are seen as just that. Personal.

[00:10:00]Meanwhile, for us, it has never been that simple. And while others debate hygiene as a personal preference, we understand self-care as a statement. We turn hygiene into a luxury, a love language, a commitment to our well-being, our presentation, and in many ways our shared dignity. Remember, there are little girls with no guidance.

[00:10:19]Hopefully, you can pull them to the side and help them.

[00:10:22]Not to embarrass them. To protect them.

[00:10:25]>> Are y'all bathing with this here?

[00:10:27]Putting it in the bathtub.

[00:10:29]Putting this into the bathtub and putting your body inside of the bathtub, you can't do that.

[00:10:33]I mop my floors with this.

[00:10:36]>> We absolutely do. We absolutely have beautiful hot Dettol baths.

[00:10:42]We do. It's within my culture. I'm Caribbean. And let me Let me tell you something. We be bathing in Dettol.

[00:10:49]Okay? We be bathing in Dettol. It's something I've grown up with, something I've always known, it's something that my mother's always known, and it's just been passed down from the islands, I think. Um yeah.

[00:11:04]I bath with Dettol.

[00:11:05]And I'm proud. Okay? I'm proud to be bathing in my Dettol. And I know a lot of people think it's weird. Like, I think it's weird that we don't wash chicken and, you know, other poultry.

[00:11:17]But there we go.

[00:11:19]>> Repeat after me. Using soap and no rag, no washcloth, to take a shower is nasty as How do you wash your backside? How do you wash your ass without using a rag, only soap? Especially if you're doodooing up yourself or something. How?

[00:11:40]How do you properly exfoliate dead skin cells, [ __ ] yeast, sweat, and everything else that our bodies produce?

[00:11:51]How do you exfoliate and I saw a comment where this lady said she went 18 years of her life without using a rag.

[00:12:00]introduced to a rag when she went to college and her roommate introduced her to a rag. I just know that her coochie and her ass must have been dirty as hell for 18 years with no rag, just virgin ass soap. That rag after almost two decades was probably greener than my shirt. That rag was probably radioactive.

[00:12:24]If you take a shower without using a rag, you didn't take a shower, you just put soap on your body.

[00:12:30]>> I chew. I'm not going to not going to not chew.

[00:12:32]>> [ __ ] bathing charities are Sunday and Wednesday. If you need a bath in between that, then absolutely. Back in the dark ages before social media and all these white folks coming on here talking about how they don't wash themselves, me and my family already knew people were not washing themselves.

[00:12:47]My dad had a formalwear business, and that is tuxedos and suits [clears throat] and anything else you could ever want or need for prom, homecoming, weddings, commitment ceremonies, quinceañeras, bar mitzvahs, and even funerals.

[00:13:02]He really did serve a wide variety of people for generations.

[00:13:07]And every week without fail, he would have to bring home dozens and dozens of shirts.

[00:13:13]These shirts were already cleaned, but they would still have black staining. Not tan, not yellow, black staining on the inside of the collar and also on the inside of the cuff, the wrist area.

[00:13:26]When I tell you OxiClean Oxi couldn't.

[00:13:29]When I tell you there was no shouting it out.

[00:13:32]My father would have to stand there with a wire bristle golf ball brush and his little arsenal products and work out this body funk staining from these shirts every week.

[00:13:45]So when I see content like this where it's 2 days a week and that's good enough and more is needed I have very strong feelings when it comes to personal hygiene and it's based off of all of this field research.

[00:14:03]Nothing anybody can say will ever convince me that showering daily should not be the bar.

[00:14:10]I don't care what you put in the comments. I don't care who stitches this.

[00:14:16]It should be daily. You should be washing your butt hole daily.

[00:14:20]>> I was just informed that there are people who use washcloths in the shower.

[00:14:23]As a grown adult, are you serious or this can't be real. You're telling me that you were going to use a bacteria infested cloth rather than just using your hands?

[00:14:32]>> You can literally wash a washcloth after using it. You know, like how you wash your clothes. You put it in the washing machine and it cleans it so you can use it again. Also, you can have more than one washcloth. You see this right here?

[00:14:46]This is my washcloth which I use when I'm taking a shower. When I'm done with it, I'm going to wash it so I can use it again. And if for some reason I couldn't use it, I would just get a different one. And yes, many grown adults like myself use a washcloth or a sponge or some item to cleanse their bodies that isn't their bare hands. And they're not expensive at all. You can get a pack of them at almost any store for less than $5. And if you care about basic hygiene, which you should, it's worth the money.

[00:15:20]>> I'm not going to I'm not going to [ __ ] wash my legs and feet.

[00:15:25]>> You think that's just a black people thing?

[00:15:27]>> Clearly.

[00:15:28]>> Well, at least >> The only one here who took the day off.

[00:15:31]>> [laughter] >> THIS WHITE PEOPLE ON MY JOB is batshit crazy, okay? I was in my hands in the bathroom and this white lady going to say, "I see you wash your hands really well every time I come in here."

[00:15:46]How do you respond to that? So, I said, "Mhm, this is what's taught since childhood." That's you know, what's going on in my head. Like my black ass like, you know, this was taught to be but I'm like, "Y'all didn't learn how to wash your hands till COVID." So, I'm going to say something and I said, "Let me translate this to something you can understand." I was like, "Yeah, ever since that COVID, you know, I had it twice. I'm extra thorough washing my hands." She was like, "Yeah, me too."

[00:16:14]And proceeded to sprinkle, you know, put your hands under there. Ooh, ooh, I'm scared of the water.

[00:16:21]Take my hand back.

[00:16:23]>> [laughter] >> And she proceeded to do that.

[00:16:28]Don't do that for my sake. In Jamaica, we have a proverb that goes, "Why Marilyn Monroe have some people in a light beard, you know?"

[00:16:36]I don't have to say that it has become even more meaningful since I've lived in the UK because I guess I'm somehow And also with the rise of social media, we have all become involved in and invested in each other's business. I know I know way more about people's hygiene habits than I really want or need to.

[00:16:56]Anyway, so I'm in the garden yesterday. I I'd ordered some new house plants and I was repotting them and me and my daughter sat at the table in the garden putting some new plants into pots. And we're just there talking like we tend to use our like gardening time as time to kind of bond and talk about our day and so. Anyway, I live in a block of six apartments and two kids from two separate apartments came out and were like, "Oh, what are you doing?

[00:17:22]Can I help?" So, I was like, "Yeah, man, come. I I love when kids get involved and are interested in in gardening and nature and stuff." So, I was like, "Yeah, man, come. Come."

[00:17:31]So, I got extra pots out for them and I gave them open the bag of soil so that they could access what they needed and I gave them the plants to pot.

[00:17:41]So, this boy get goes and him find this little scoop something and him him I want to I scoop scoop this dirt. So, I was like, "Well, just use your hands.

[00:17:49]It's evening time now anyway. We're like you're going to have to bath before bed anyway, so don't worry about it. Just use your hands." And he was like, "No, no, no. I can't I can't get dirty cuz it's not Sunday."

[00:18:04]So, I didn't understand what he meant.

[00:18:06]So, I was like, "Oh, okay.

[00:18:09]What do you mean?" And he was like, "Oh, we only bath on Sundays."

[00:18:13]So, I was like, "Well, you'll have a shower anyway or wash your hands, so don't worry about it."

[00:18:18]So, I'm there using my hands, my daughter's using her hands, this other kid is there and he's like doing his thing. He's not really part paying attention to the conversation.

[00:18:28]And he was like, "No, we only I only we only bathe on like him never use the word bathe, but he said, 'No, we only bath or shower on a Sunday.'"

[00:18:37]So, I was like, "Well, what about the rest of the days?" And he was like, "No."

[00:18:41]So, my daughter now, she clutches her pearls. She's like, "Nothing?"

[00:18:48]"NOTHING? NOT EVEN A SHOWER?"

[00:18:50]SO, me and nudge my daughter now cuz she's six, but she's like she she hasn't quite developed that kind of filter when she's talking. So, I nudge my daughter and I'm like, "Shut up."

[00:19:01]And my daughter was like, "But, Mommy, that's nasty."

[00:19:06]No, I do not disagree with my baby.

[00:19:10]As far as I'm concerned from my point of view, from my culture, that's kind of gross.

[00:19:15]But, I'm not going to tell this child this. But, my daughter was like so offended, like clutching her pearls. And I'm like, all right. So, we So, after me and my daughter had to have this discussion about what is appropriate to say in front of people and what isn't.

[00:19:27]And while I agree with her, and while what she said wasn't objectively wrong, probably not the right place to say it.

[00:19:35]But, the only thing that came to my mind as me and this little boy is talking, and he's telling me like this is normal behavior, is boy, I really don't know what people are like bathing in or I could just hear all my ancestors, like Anyway, is this normal? Like, because it's not the first time I've heard of this actually here in England, but it is weird to me.

[00:19:57]Why would you only bathe once a week?

[00:20:00]Especially now it's summer. And like, my daughter six. She bathes every day. But, but this kid was probably like two or three years older than my daughter. So, like, is this normal?

[00:20:11]Because it's not normal for me. So, I never knew that hygiene was cultural.

[00:20:16]Sometimes you learn too much things on this app.

[00:20:19]So, I grew up with my mom's family, who's Indian.

[00:20:23]No shoes in the house. And tell me some of yours in the comments. So, no shoes in the house. As soon as you walk in the door, the first thing you do is you wash your hands. You could not sit on the sofa, even though we had plastic on it.

[00:20:35]We couldn't sit on the sofa, and God forbid you you sat on the bed.

[00:20:40]You would get your ass beat sitting on the bed with your street clothes on.

[00:20:45]What else? Everybody took shower every day.

[00:20:47]We took a shower every single day, especially as kids when you play outside. And I remember, too, my uncles coming in from work, and the first thing they did was take a shower.

[00:20:59]So, I just And everybody had their own towel. I just don't get people that don't shower every day.

[00:21:06]Uh in the comments, put some of your cultural hygiene if >> [laughter] >> European people are commenting on my viral video saying that showering every day is not normal. Excuse me, I beg your finest pardon. Please take a freaking shower. Oh my god. I bet your armpits stink, your coochie stink, your feet stink. I would also love a list of the countries that practice this. Who is not showering because I will keep my ass away from there. I do not want to smell y'all. Someone literally said that, "Oh, showering every day is for blue collar workers in construction, people that work outside." Girl, this isn't the Middle Ages anymore. This isn't like the Dark Ages. We have water readily available and like I'm pretty sure the whole continent of Europe, y'all be in intimate with each other without taking a shower. Oh my I've heard bad things about the Netherlands and Germany in terms of hygiene. I mean, I can't say. I visited the Netherlands. I never noticed this luckily, but let me know. I live in Italy and they're generally really clean from what I've noticed. A few weeks ago this white lady came on this app and was like, "Oh my god, I think the reason why black people clean themselves or shower more or have like more rules around hygiene is because they've been told for years that they are dirty and that their skin is dirty and white people just never had that cultural experience and so that's why we don't bathe." Okay. I think that conversation is so funny because I read this book called Broken Hold on, let me get it. I read this book and it is about the Spanish conquest of Mexico from the indigenous perspective. And one thing that was passed down through history, like the word of mouth, these stories have been passed down, is that the Spanish smelled horrible. They literally smelt revolting. Tried to look for it, I can't find the exact quote that was like said by an indigenous person. Through years of the Spanish trying to like destroy the history and the stories of indigenous people, One of the things that stayed and has been continuously told is how horrible they smell and they had to teach them how to bathe.

[00:23:10]And so yeah, she is right. Hygiene is cultural. Every other indigenous group did though cuz the same thing can be found in like African history as well where they're like they came and they smelled horrible. They didn't understand how our plumbing systems work and that's also why Europeans had so many freaking diseases. Your culture is just to be dirty and evil.

[00:23:31]>> I was in the Air Force, right? This is the first time that I'm really in an environment where I have to like literally live with other races. So I was on QC duty one night. I was getting ready for my shift. I was going to relieve somebody.

[00:23:45]Came down there and I smelled something kind of funny.

[00:23:48]And I was like, damn. And then the sergeant came in and he was like like, what's that smell? He was like Lawrence, is that you? I said, "Sir, hell no."

[00:23:59]>> [laughter] >> And he looked at the other dude and he went up to him. He was like Ew, you stink. He was like, "Did you take a shower today?" And he was like, "Yeah, I did." She was like, "Bullshit.

[00:24:11]You didn't take no shower." He was like, "Lawrence, is this your sweetmate?" I was like, "Yeah, he in the suite next door." He was like, "Did he take a shower today?" I said, "Man, I couldn't tell you all that now." He was like, "I'mma tell you what." He said, "Lawrence, every time y'all get done with training, you make sure this [ __ ] goes and washes his ass." He said, "Son, if you don't take a shower every day."

[00:24:32]And this is a white man telling this to another white man. He said, "If you don't wash your ass every day after training, I'mma give you an Article 15."

[00:24:39]And he felt like that it was acceptable because a lot of them boys was like, "You know what? We just going to get dirty again. We just going to get sweaty again. What's the point of continuing to washing and washing?" Because I'm like, "Look at the [ __ ] on your face. Look at them puss pimples and [ __ ] like that." I said, "Look at you like you smell like whatever you eat. That shit's coming out your pores, man."

[00:25:02]>> in the gush.

[00:25:03]>> Like >> You know the gushes?

[00:25:04]>> Have some governance.

[00:25:05]>> Ew.

[00:25:06]>> Have some respect for everybody else. If you don't respect yourself, respect everybody else. We can smell your fungus man. Like for real, bro. Like that [ __ ] used to be terrible.

[00:25:16]>> I truly agree with the statement. I think cleanliness is cultural. Why?

[00:25:18]Because I think that people who are of a darker skin tone were hundreds of years ago told that they were dirty. Now, obviously that's completely racist and a terrible [clears throat] thing to say, but I think that it became embedded in that culture to always be clean and fresh.

[00:25:30]>> What type of mental gymnastics? How did How did you what? Quick question. Didn't Europeans come to America with very, very, very poor hygiene? Like you think that we think we're dirty because your ancestors called us dirty? What? That's No.

[00:25:50]The indigenous people that were here first were showering two times out the day and were making their own soaps.

[00:25:57]>> And if you're wondering where this stems from is because she posted this video.

[00:26:01]>> I shower about twice a week.

[00:26:07]And look.

[00:26:07]>> Showering twice a week is just nasty.

[00:26:10]It's just nasty. That's gross. If you work outside, you walked outside, you're wearing shoes all day, you're sweating.

[00:26:16]If you're going to the gym, that's just nasty.

[00:26:20]Like This is no debate. This isn't a hot topic. If you shower twice a week, that's poor hygiene.

[00:26:28]It's not up for debate. That's gross.

[00:26:30]And it's weird of you to say that black people just think that we're dirty because your ancestors called us dirty.

[00:26:35]No, we were practicing good hygiene before we ever got involved with y'all, ever, ever.

[00:26:40]>> Yeah, so after the videos I've watched, I think I understand where people are coming from when they say hygiene is cultural. Because when you don't grow up with a particular way of life, it's very difficult for you to just adapt or for it to become like a second nature to you when you are an adult, right? So, as some white people are saying they don't give their kids regular bath or wash hands regularly or something, it's going to be very difficult for them when they grow to be adults to do that or to do that without thinking about. And to think that some people feel like it's nothing, I decide when I'm clean or my hand is clean and I don't have to do all that washing and everything. If I say it's clean, it's clean. Now, I want to know in the comment section, is that how it says? Is that how it's supposed to be like? If I go out and I come back in, I don't need to wash my hand. I look at my hands and I say my hands are clean, it means my hands are clean. I can just pick anything and start eating. Is that how it works? Let me know in the comment section. And I mean, I could see the shock in some black people's or some black folks' faces when they were being asked these type of questions. Like, why are you even asking me this? This should be normal. This is something that you even do without thinking, right? Just be told that, yeah, these people don't do [clears throat] that and so that is why we are asking you these questions. Now, personally, I grew up with daily showers, frequent washing of hands, and so that is how I'm training my kids, right? And to think that there are some kids that will be trained to not take daily showers and everything, it's mhm somehow I don't really know, but indeed, it is cultural. I want to know what you think in the comment section and what you think of hygiene.

[00:28:21]Like, is it just in the mind you think that if my hands or my legs are clean, uh if I say it's clean, it's clean and that is it, right? And I don't need to shower with soap. I don't need all those things to keep clean. I think I'm clean and then off I go. Is that what it says?

[00:28:40]Like, let me know your thoughts and opinions in the comment section. Yeah, guys, we've come to the end of today's video. Thank you so much for watching and I'll catch you in the next one.

[00:28:49]Bye.

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