Well Im black, and I was unfortunately taught to envy the white man. Yes I have experienced racism, of course, but I just let go and forget. More blacks need to learn to do the same.
I think more people should know about racism and to not let such a thing create further stereotypes. Not just with blacks but other groups as well, racism is more than a black and white issue.
Blacks will let go when we all stop acting stupid over skin color.
It got so tiring as a kid being told I spoke so well implying black males can't be articulate.
I still get lowkey racist jabs here and there but I don't let it bother me too much just don't put your hands on me.
Did you just seriously compare the situation white people have nowadays (by far the largest owners of property and money in the world, control the legal system, the media, the education system, the police force, etc) to slavery, which is what black people faced centuries ago?
im a filipino customer service rep. i had a call with an american member of our site and he knew that im a filipino. he's defo rude and mock what happen to the Philippines during the typhoon Haiyan. my perspective to americans was already changed tbh because of my job. hopefully somebody out there can change my mind.
I really don't get when people say racism against white people doesn't exist. Just because it isn't institutionalized racism or racism on a societal-level scale, doesn't mean one-on-one or individual accounts of racism can't happen. Now, before anyone starts I'm not trying to compare what happens to white people to the racism faced by other races. Clearly other races are - and throughout history have been - more discriminated against and more persecuted than white people ever have been. If anyone disagrees with that they are clearly being extremely ignorant. However, if a white person is beaten up or verbally abused JUST because he's white, that IS a racist action. Pure and simple. If you discriminate against someone purely based on their skin colour I don't see how that could ever not be considered racist. Now, having said that these type of things happen far less to white people than they do to other races. Obviously white people are in a 'better' (sorry. couldn't think of a more appropriate word) position in society than other races because we have white privilege. We are far less discriminated against, we have far more opportunities and overall our lives are usually somewhat easier than those of other races. Clearly that is wrong, but sadly I don't see it changing anytime soon. But just because it doesn't happen regularly or on a wide-scale doesn't mean it doesn't happen at all, that's what I'm saying with this post. All forms of racism and all forms of discrimination are wrong and I wish people would stop being so pedantic sometimes and stop jumping on someone every time they use the word 'racism' incorrectly. The vast majority aren't doing it in an offensive way or a hurtful way, they use it because they feel as if that's the word that's most appropriate. Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't, but they aren't bad people just for doing that. Anyway, I'll probably be called 'ignorant' or 'stupid' for this post, but it is what it is. Racism is wrong in every way, shape or form. Done.
im a filipino customer service rep. i had a call with an american member of our site and he knew that im a filipino. he's defo rude and mock what happen to the Philippines during the typhoon Haiyan. my perspective to americans was already changed tbh because of my job. hopefully somebody out there can change my mind.
A lot of us are rude and ignorant of other cultures, but you can't base a whole country on that. Some areas of the US are a lot ruder than others, so you really would need to know what state they were from to help with that.
A lot of us are rude and ignorant of other cultures, but you can't base a whole country on that. Some areas of the US are a lot ruder than others, so you really would need to know what state they were from to help with that.
i understand that i shouldnt based it off in a whole, on my experience southern people seems to be really nice though. im working for almost 2 years now and i speak to different americans everyday. btw i would like to commend british people they are soo nice and kind, very fun to speak with. i just love my job because of them tbh.
I really don't get when people say racism against white people doesn't exist. Just because it isn't institutionalized racism or racism on a societal-level scale, doesn't mean one-on-one or individual accounts of racism can't happen. Now, before anyone starts I'm not trying to compare what happens to white people to the racism faced by other races. Clearly other races are - and throughout history have been - more discriminated against and more persecuted than white people ever have been. If anyone disagrees with that they are clearly being extremely ignorant. However, if a white person is beaten up or verbally abused JUST because he's white, that IS a racist action. Pure and simple. If you discriminate against someone purely based on their skin colour I don't see how that could ever not be considered racist. Now, having said that these type of things happen far less to white people than they do to other races. Obviously white people are in a 'better' (sorry. couldn't think of a more appropriate word) position in society than other races because we have white privilege. We are far less discriminated against, we have far more opportunities and overall our lives are usually somewhat easier than those of other races. Clearly that is wrong, but sadly I don't see it changing anytime soon. But just because it doesn't happen regularly or on a wide-scale doesn't mean it doesn't happen at all, that's what I'm saying with this post. All forms of racism and all forms of discrimination are wrong and I wish people would stop being so pedantic sometimes and stop jumping on someone every time they use the word 'racism' incorrectly. The vast majority aren't doing it in an offensive way or a hurtful way, they use it because they feel as if that's the word that's most appropriate. Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't, but they aren't bad people just for doing that. Anyway, I'll probably be called 'ignorant' or 'stupid' for this post, but it is what it is. Racism is wrong in every way, shape or form. Done.
I had just gotten accepted to a pretty selective university and my teacher overheard me talking about it to one of my classmates...She waddled over and was like..."you know you only got in because you were Black, right?" even though I had the highest SAT score in the school, and was president of like everything. I even had the highest grade in her class! Smh...That really upset me.
Other than that, I haven't really experienced much in terms of racism...
I would have slapped her.
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I read the other day a very interesting article about racism in Asia and how an ambassador of the USA in India (she was black btw) would get constant racism, they will give her bananas and in 5 star hotel she told that kid started to make monkey like moves to her and the parents just laughed SMH, and also "Chocolate City" in China where african inmigrants in China face racism.
I really don't get when people say racism against white people doesn't exist. Just because it isn't institutionalized racism or racism on a societal-level scale, doesn't mean one-on-one or individual accounts of racism can't happen. Now, before anyone starts I'm not trying to compare what happens to white people to the racism faced by other races. Clearly other races are - and throughout history have been - more discriminated against and more persecuted than white people ever have been. If anyone disagrees with that they are clearly being extremely ignorant. However, if a white person is beaten up or verbally abused JUST because he's white, that IS a racist action. Pure and simple. If you discriminate against someone purely based on their skin colour I don't see how that could ever not be considered racist. Now, having said that these type of things happen far less to white people than they do to other races. Obviously white people are in a 'better' (sorry. couldn't think of a more appropriate word) position in society than other races because we have white privilege. We are far less discriminated against, we have far more opportunities and overall our lives are usually somewhat easier than those of other races. Clearly that is wrong, but sadly I don't see it changing anytime soon. But just because it doesn't happen regularly or on a wide-scale doesn't mean it doesn't happen at all, that's what I'm saying with this post. All forms of racism and all forms of discrimination are wrong and I wish people would stop being so pedantic sometimes and stop jumping on someone every time they use the word 'racism' incorrectly. The vast majority aren't doing it in an offensive way or a hurtful way, they use it because they feel as if that's the word that's most appropriate. Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't, but they aren't bad people just for doing that. Anyway, I'll probably be called 'ignorant' or 'stupid' for this post, but it is what it is. Racism is wrong in every way, shape or form. Done.
I'm white, so I've never experience racism. My best friend is Asian though, Vietnamese to be exact and it's so sad to hear her telling me how people at school ask her if she eats cats or dogs. It's sad too cause her little sister is in 5th grade and is 1 out of like 3 Asians in the school and she experiences racist comments like that daily and it's sad that young kids in her class were brought up believing ******** like that.
I really don't get when people say racism against white people doesn't exist. Just because it isn't institutionalized racism or racism on a societal-level scale, doesn't mean one-on-one or individual accounts of racism can't happen. Now, before anyone starts I'm not trying to compare what happens to white people to the racism faced by other races. Clearly other races are - and throughout history have been - more discriminated against and more persecuted than white people ever have been. If anyone disagrees with that they are clearly being extremely ignorant. However, if a white person is beaten up or verbally abused JUST because he's white, that IS a racist action. Pure and simple. If you discriminate against someone purely based on their skin colour I don't see how that could ever not be considered racist. Now, having said that these type of things happen far less to white people than they do to other races. Obviously white people are in a 'better' (sorry. couldn't think of a more appropriate word) position in society than other races because we have white privilege. We are far less discriminated against, we have far more opportunities and overall our lives are usually somewhat easier than those of other races. Clearly that is wrong, but sadly I don't see it changing anytime soon. But just because it doesn't happen regularly or on a wide-scale doesn't mean it doesn't happen at all, that's what I'm saying with this post. All forms of racism and all forms of discrimination are wrong and I wish people would stop being so pedantic sometimes and stop jumping on someone every time they use the word 'racism' incorrectly. The vast majority aren't doing it in an offensive way or a hurtful way, they use it because they feel as if that's the word that's most appropriate. Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't, but they aren't bad people just for doing that. Anyway, I'll probably be called 'ignorant' or 'stupid' for this post, but it is what it is. Racism is wrong in every way, shape or form. Done.
I really don't get when people say racism against white people doesn't exist. Just because it isn't institutionalized racism or racism on a societal-level scale, doesn't mean one-on-one or individual accounts of racism can't happen. Now, before anyone starts I'm not trying to compare what happens to white people to the racism faced by other races. Clearly other races are - and throughout history have been - more discriminated against and more persecuted than white people ever have been. If anyone disagrees with that they are clearly being extremely ignorant. However, if a white person is beaten up or verbally abused JUST because he's white, that IS a racist action. Pure and simple. If you discriminate against someone purely based on their skin colour I don't see how that could ever not be considered racist. Now, having said that these type of things happen far less to white people than they do to other races. Obviously white people are in a 'better' (sorry. couldn't think of a more appropriate word) position in society than other races because we have white privilege. We are far less discriminated against, we have far more opportunities and overall our lives are usually somewhat easier than those of other races. Clearly that is wrong, but sadly I don't see it changing anytime soon. But just because it doesn't happen regularly or on a wide-scale doesn't mean it doesn't happen at all, that's what I'm saying with this post. All forms of racism and all forms of discrimination are wrong and I wish people would stop being so pedantic sometimes and stop jumping on someone every time they use the word 'racism' incorrectly. The vast majority aren't doing it in an offensive way or a hurtful way, they use it because they feel as if that's the word that's most appropriate. Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't, but they aren't bad people just for doing that. Anyway, I'll probably be called 'ignorant' or 'stupid' for this post, but it is what it is. Racism is wrong in every way, shape or form. Done.
Were 80 years ago the Jews black? No, most of them were white.
Hutu Tutsi - we can say racism is in every combination possible.
The reason? I don't know, probably a genetic programm, to survive 500k years ago, fear and mistrust towards the strangers.