Honestly, I've been to parts of the US where it was more noticeable when I saw a black person. Some summers I'd only see 2 or 3 people there. Kind of creepy honestly. I'd see more people of asian decent there.
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I grew up in rural Mississippi and used to work with a guy who admitted to having never seen an Asian person outside of TV or film until he went to college. It was his roommate.
l guess it is a lot harder in the US, as it was formed by people immigrating from all over the world.
Might be easier in more homogenous populations, e.g. some parts of Europe.
Eg. I live in Germany and was 14 years old when seeing the first black person in real life, a girl from Eritrea whose family had moved to my school district.
Only dark skinned person in a school with 400+ pupils.
Asian people are more common in my region, but there are probably many rural areas you would be stared at a lot
There are parts of Europe, particularly small villages, where all you see are the locals. People from outside usually don’t move in, more like the opposite actually. Kids move out when they want to study something in a big city, and they only return during Christmas. In a place like that, the only foreigners you could find are the Turks who run the local pizza kebab restaurant. If you go to an even smaller town, there are no restaurants at all, so that’s the place where you can probably find people who have never met a black person before.
There's definitely rural areas nobody goes to or leaves where nobody has met an Asian, but they'll have seen them on TV, it shouldn't be too shocking.