Have you ever dealt with racism in your life?

Because I have when I was a very young person. Then, as I got older, racism against me slowly went away. Now I don't experience racism anymore. Which is good news for me.

@pokemonexpert45: I'm glad it has ended for you. That's remarkable!

No.

@girlusocrazy: Yes! Indeed it is! Racism is so silly, too!

@pokemonexpert45: To put it mildly!

No. I've lived my whole life in a city that has a tremendous amount of variety in terms of the different races/cultures. I grew up as a white kid, but most of my friends were not white. Living in a multi-cultural city is all I've ever known. That's the reason why I've never encountered racism. In my city, all races live together in peace.

(I live near Toronto, in case you were wondering)

Black friend at work once called me "so fucking white". I was rather offended at first, but laughed it off once I realised she was just talking about my skin colour. Polish winters will do that to a chap.

@girlusocrazy: Exactly! Racism should not happen to anyone!

A lot. I spent a large period of my life in china, including during COVID.

From the old guys giving me mean looks, the young guys imitating my supposed accent before I even speak, the people standing up and leaving whenever I would sit next to them at the bus. People covering their mouths when I would enter an elevator. The stupid assumptions about my country or culture.

It wasn't all bad, some were positive assumptions, and I definitely didn't have it as bad as the black dudes, but yes, a lot of shit.

I don't believe in returning bad treatment with bad treatment, so I always make sure to treat well asian people in my country, but I can't say it has not left some anger inside.

I feel like making fun of you for being Polish would be worse than making fun of you for being white 😋

Yes, though it wasn't malicious. I'm 6'3" and white and at the time I was playing football and in really good shape, so when I went to Japan a lot of Japanese were like "Wow look at the big gaijin". 'Gaijin' being a somewhat-derogatory term for foreigner. Some wanted to wrestle, arm wrestle, try on my giant shoes, asked me "how is the weather up there?".

It was mostly positive though still racist. Some of them really love to practice their English and, again, it's fine, but at the same time after the 10th interaction in a day you kind of want to tell them "Hey I'm on vacation".

Of course, then you go to the cities like Tokyo or Kyoto and some of the bars will straight up block you from entering and say "NO GAIJIN!" because they don't want foreigners in there.

The thing about Japan is that it is a pretty homogenous country so when you're country is like 99.5% Japanese (or whatever, I'm pulling that number out of nowhere but it's high) no one really complains about the rampant racism against foreigners. In the US, yes, we are racist too but if I blocked someone for entering my bar because they were Asian, boy howdy would we and you and the entire world hear about it.

Not saying one is better than the other, it's just sort of amusing seeing the various, ummm...expressions of racism that various countries have lol.

I get it every now and then

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I don't think I've really experienced racism, at least not directly.

Heightism and sexism, I'm sure I have.

Not towards me but two hair stylists I had were racist. One didn't like Chinese people and the other didn't like Black people. I stopped going to them for that.

Lots.

At my job, I had customers be racist as hell about my non-English (predominately Spanish) co-workers. A couple even ranted at me, yet one customer saw the look on my face, knowing I didn't take it well, and moans not to get mad at her.

I have experienced racism, unfortunately. Went to a mostly white school and even heard the hard "er". Or them assuming my brother eats fried chicken and watermelon,.simply because he's black.

I'm with Norm. That would be unforgivable.

In all honesty, as a Polish-Ukrainian/English-Irish mix, (with a generous scoop of German thrown in for pizazz), If I got offended by jokes about national stereotypes, I'd be screwed.

not really, unless you count what your hear on COD galleys back in 2010

Na, not really.

Scotland is primarily white people with a Pakistani/Indian population.. I guess get the odd idiot boozed up lashing out but generally Pakistani/Indian community is integrated really well here from what I can tell.

Sure.

I was raised and lived in HI for many years, and if anyone is familiar with Hawaiian history regarding the overthrowing of the monarch, they’d understand that there remains a palpable sentiment of resentment and dislike towards whites in the islands. It’s not in your face, but can boil up in certain places. I encountered it much more in grade/high school (“fuckin’ haole!!”) there than as an adult, but I’ve had my share for sure, even though I’ve Hawaiian ancestry myself.

Still, nothing like the mainland east coast. People here are MUCH more willing to be explicit in their prejudices I’ve found, and are overall quite a bit less friendly. I’ve had three notable encounters here since 2018, and while I can’t say if it was racial animus that motivated it, these were instances that I’d done nothing and was treated very badly, so I suspect that was the reason.

Don't think I have, nothing comes to mind at least. Seems to be very non racist where I live. Went to Marrakesh once with my GF, and the people who live there are terrible towards women. That's about it.