How does this profound, well-written, and funny post have only eight likes!? Heavily underrated… I know some Asians very closely, and the only one who is ever smelly is the chronic gamer. They wish they could grow a beard like me, but I on the other hand wish I was hairless like them. It’s nice to grow a beard, but it’s dishonest. You lose yourself in it. And body hair is just the worst. Makes you smellier, makes you dirtier, makes you simultaneously look fatter and less muscular…
I remember going to east africa and the absolute stench of all the people was nauseating; some of those women even wore leather jackets in 90° tropical temperature .
Came here to say it. It’s unbelievable. I cackle anytime diaspora blacks claim they taught us to bathe having spent time in their motherland. Have spent weeks mouth breathing because the burning in my nose from their BO was so intolerable.
I was teaching a class in Beijing almost 30years ago and most of the guys in the class seems to wear the same clothes for several days in a row. You couldn’t smell it though.
I have known a few white (so mostly European) people who don’t have BO. They all had dark hair. My own husband (very pale and blond) has super intense BO.
Being Asian, I don’t have BO. I don’t have much body hair so I don’t bother removing the hairs that exist, but in east Asia, laser hair removal for both men and women are all the rage now and I expect that even a crowded Tokyo subway will smell much less. At least in Japan, people are obsessed with taking a shower or bath every day and not having a smell.
Wrt African people — I think it depends a lot on what local hygiene customs they have. In Islamic countries I would assume people are cleaner in general due to there being very specific religious traditions around hygiene (removing body hair, washing regularly etc). When I’ve visited not particularly Islamic areas, people have been smelly, but they didn’t smell dirty (my frame of reference was homeless people smell), they smelled like BO because there isn’t a custom to use deodorant. I assume everyone in countries with the BO gene smelled like that before the invention of deodorant.
How does this profound, well-written, and funny post have only eight likes!? Heavily underrated… I know some Asians very closely, and the only one who is ever smelly is the chronic gamer. They wish they could grow a beard like me, but I on the other hand wish I was hairless like them. It’s nice to grow a beard, but it’s dishonest. You lose yourself in it. And body hair is just the worst. Makes you smellier, makes you dirtier, makes you simultaneously look fatter and less muscular…
I remember going to east africa and the absolute stench of all the people was nauseating; some of those women even wore leather jackets in 90° tropical temperature .
Fascinating!
Africans by far…I went to Mombasa in the Navy and you could smell the BO before we even landed at the dock.
Came here to say it. It’s unbelievable. I cackle anytime diaspora blacks claim they taught us to bathe having spent time in their motherland. Have spent weeks mouth breathing because the burning in my nose from their BO was so intolerable.
I was teaching a class in Beijing almost 30years ago and most of the guys in the class seems to wear the same clothes for several days in a row. You couldn’t smell it though.
I found that in East Africa the body odour is tempered with wood smoke giving an earthy aroma which I imagine was our ancestral smell.
Anyone who has travelled know that Africans smell much, much worse than Indians. It’s not even close.
Spending time there around locals is brutal. Nose feels like it’s burning making mouth breathing the only option.
I have known a few white (so mostly European) people who don’t have BO. They all had dark hair. My own husband (very pale and blond) has super intense BO.
Being Asian, I don’t have BO. I don’t have much body hair so I don’t bother removing the hairs that exist, but in east Asia, laser hair removal for both men and women are all the rage now and I expect that even a crowded Tokyo subway will smell much less. At least in Japan, people are obsessed with taking a shower or bath every day and not having a smell.
Wrt African people — I think it depends a lot on what local hygiene customs they have. In Islamic countries I would assume people are cleaner in general due to there being very specific religious traditions around hygiene (removing body hair, washing regularly etc). When I’ve visited not particularly Islamic areas, people have been smelly, but they didn’t smell dirty (my frame of reference was homeless people smell), they smelled like BO because there isn’t a custom to use deodorant. I assume everyone in countries with the BO gene smelled like that before the invention of deodorant.