Have you ever experienced racism?

[Idyll Wisp 51]

For most of my elementary-middle school life, I was the only fully white kid at a Catholic School. We all got along a majority of the time but they loved name-calling and teasing when it came to me. They'd often call me a Nazi since I grew up in a German speaking neighborhood and being so ethnically, asked me if I wanted the rest of their potatoes or sausages during lunch, always asked me the next time it was going to snow during winter. You get the idea. 

[hawkflame 3,308]

Once.  I'm Asian and work the drive thru at a fast food restaurant.  After I handed the order off in the window, I asked the customer if he needed anything else.  The customer (an older white guy) said he would like an order of Moo Goo Gai Pan and started grinning and laughing at me. 

 

All I could do is tell him that this isn't a damned Chinese restaurant and glare at him. 

[SwigglySwiggly 358]

I live in Australia..... the only country in the world where you climb onto a bus... 

and receive racist insults and maybe a stabbing.

(don't come to Australia without any weapons)

Edited July 8, 2013 by SwigglySwiggly

[TailsIsNotAlone 3,694]

Once, indirectly. I have a somewhat dark complexion for a Caucasian, and there was a customer at my first job who assumed I was Mexican and couldn't speak English. I had the language skills of a college grad by the time I entered middle school. Asshole.

 

Minorities can be racist too, I guess, but I've never had anyone call me 'honkey' or anything like that. 

[Shanks 10,811]

For the most part no, I have had some trolls call me "inbred" (if you know what I mean) and stuff like that on some of my youtube videos and I am not from the south or have ever been to the south but I just chalk that up to trolls will be trolls which is of course not the same as experiencing full blown racism so I can't in good conscience really count that. What I do find very annoying though is this one double standard where certain ethnic slurs particularly against whites especially white southerners are viewed as acceptable while ethnic slurs against any other ethnic group are big no no's regardless of any sort of context unless they are being said by the member of said ethnic group. They should be either all be acceptable for everyone or acceptable for no one.

[Ihei 711]

Well, I've never experienced it, but I come from a family who doesn't care for the other human races. They're pretty racist.

 

- My four cousins said they hated everything about Mexicans: the food, the people, and how they do stuff.

 

(( How rude. ))

 

- My parents don't respect the Chinese for their behavior.

 

- My friends think that British people are stuck-up.

 

I'm not racist. I'm accepting. :3

[Vermillion 613]

yeas i have experienced racism is was horrible (lol joking) my friend who is Jamaican/British called me a cracker and just laughed then we carried on in class 

[kyoki wolfe 134]

I'm half white and half asian. I've never been racist towards people a different race and I never will be. I find it really rude. But people expect me to a be racist cause I look full white. So even though I really don't do anything everyone thinks I'm racist....which I don't get. 

[Scootalove 10,684]

I haven't really experienced racism, I've only heard about it and I've seen it happen in Virginia and all across the globe. While, I'm not racist even if I do see it happen in my hometown.

[omnusus 52]

When I was 8, this group of black kids my age pushed me out of a whirl pool because I was white. Other than that, I have not been the victim of any racism, and I'm pretty sure these kids would have kicked me out no matter the color of my skin.

[tranglam 28]

Oh ya.... I grew up on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. I was the only pure blood white kid in the entire school pretty much. You can imagine how that was, they had their own language, there were a lot of them, and before middle school I was walking in on them on drugs. (Also this is a race notorious for just plain being a pain in society) and yet I still love them and have friends who are Natives. 

 

So to answer yes.

[heathergilmore25 153]

Definitely! All of my coworkers are Hispanic and I'm viewed differently as not "understanding their ways". I was skipped over for a bunch of scholarships and a college tour trip for my college prep program because I wasn't a "minority". I think that we should be judged on our merit rather than our tone.

[Scootadress 360]

Racism? Yes, but because mostly the town was mostly white and we were Spanish. At first I didn't get picked on since I don't look Spanish for some reason to lots of people (I apparently look Italian somehow. I don't know how) didn't really care until they knew my brother was black. They picked on me. That was sad since I was in 3rd grade.

 

Though, what was worse was when they picked on my brother and sister. My sister did nothing to them. She was hysterical...so much so that we pulled her out of there. (Being Autistic in a community full of jerks isn't very good) My brother nearly got ran over it was that bad.

 

Then again, we left our original area, went there, and moved back. When I came back to where I originally lived (in an apartment complex) no more bullying. Its because in my area now, its diverse and has many cultures. Do I still see Racism? Yes, towards the Indians that live there (which, in a way, made us still stand out since I was the lightest person there) since sometimes they did stupid shit, but not really towards the whole community.

Edited July 13, 2013 by Scootadress

[MLP Moth 224]

Of course I have. With those Asian stereotypes about us eating dogs. I bet any other race would eat a dog if it meant survival. I hate stupid people that don't think. I also, can see just fine in fact I have 20/20 vision and my eyes are fairly large. And I'm horrible at math.

[Zygen 6,065]

Eh, well most of the racism I see around is people over reacting and using the term to freely, but I have witnessed actual racism before.

 

As for feeling as someone's being racist to me, eh not really, I guess I've been insulted by people online for being American sometimes, buts it's more about the country and not the race.

 

I think racism is dumb though, skin color is a febble way to judge people, as well as ethnic background even, people can supprise you once you get to know them, regardless of your past experiences.

 

I feel like around here racism as a term is tossed around to freely.

[Shanks 10,811]

- My four cousins said they hated everything about Mexicans: the food, the people, and how they do stuff.

I will bet you anything that they haven't actually tried real Mexican food. I live in Southern California where Mexican restaurants are in some places even more common than burger joints and I have been to some meh places but alot of really good ones too. There is this one place I went to once where they made the everything fresh even the tortillas right in front of you.

 

 

 

 I think that we should be judged on our merit rather than our tone.

I think people underestimate just how insulting that sort of thing is to everyone regardless of their ethnic background, it treats "minorities" like they are different by implying that they need special favors in order to succeed and cheapens the success of them as being the result of them being the token *inserts ethnic group here* person. It is unfair to whites because it adds an unnecessary extra hurdle they have to jump through simply because some racist idiots who they had nothing to do with denied people opportunities in the past due to their skin color. And most importantly it just harbors resentment which just makes the problem even worse. Racism will always be a problem but it only gets better when people stop seeing each other in groups and start seeing them in terms of individuals.

[Eureka 1,119]

Not exactly. I'm part Irish and Irish jokes really tick me off but no one has ever been racist directly to me. But, I have been around some sexist jerks though. It's not exactly the same thing but, It's sort of alike. But it really ticks me off when people are racist.

[Akemi Homura 7,680]

I have experienced first-hand discrimination about my ethnicity over... Facebook. Not from the people on my friends list, but total strangers on a football related post. It was sort of enlightening but it did temper me knowing that their profiles indicated that they were college students. Meaning they at least had the intelligence to know that calling someone a slur based on their nationality was hardly endearing.

 

On the contrary.

[Creamy Arty 6,251]

Can't think of any racist words or actions directed against me, though I do have several relatives who dislike anyone who isn't white. I've "experienced" racism in having to listen to them whenever they went on a rant, blaming people of other races for every problem they've ever had, even those of their own making.

[Inactive01 5,298]

When I was in elementary school in Toronto, my classmates thought that Indonesia was filled with stupid villagers who didn't have TVs and technology like Canada. They thought I lived like Tarzan because they thought I lived in wooden huts in the middle of nowhere (ie jungle). Needless to say, if they said that when I was older, I would have just walked away furious.

[Gone Airbourne 21,969]

Racism oh yeah I have and I absolutely hate it with a passion. I live in the south and I am part Puerto Rican , I don't look latino at all though. But whenever I have spoken spanish in public I have gotten rude remarks from people saying: "Stop speaking mexican this is america learn to speak english"... When english is my first language anyways.... 

 

I hate racism and ignorant assholes they deserve to be ignored and silenced.

[Inactive01 5,298]

Oh and I forgot to mention the racism I felt when I moved back to Indonesia from Canada in high school. They said that Canadians live in igloos and that we're all eskimos. Plus, they were saying that Canada's always cold because it's so far up north. So yeah, I experienced the best of both worlds when it comes to racism... whee.

 

EDIT: Now that I think of it, it IS racism in a stereotypical form. Nonetheless, it's still racism because they make straw man fallacies about the other nations and make them seem really stupid.

Edited July 15, 2013 by Sterling Crimson

[Sylentmana 271]

I was stationed in Japan for two years and while I loved it there if you weren't japanese you weren't allowed in certain restaurants and other places without a japanese escort.  To be honest, I found it to be kind of funny.  Unfortunately I come from a family that aren't very "evolved".  I've had to distance myself from my extended family because I couldn't stand all the bigotry.

Edited July 16, 2013 by Sylentmana

[Lunas Husband 2,777]

Yeah I have a few times, a lot of the time its because I'm gay... which is nice but I don't mind. Some times its because I'm white.. which once more ok.. its kind of like go right a head and hate me..

[Splashee 28,537]

I have not experienced any racism, or I haven't noticed it. I know it is a problem, even where I live.