Racism, Has it affected you? Options

[*theoutlaw*]

Aww.

But you really..got your eyes to open wider..?

Haha, yes. But I really feel stupid. But as always. Asian Pride baby!

[gelionie]

Thankfully, I haven't been much affected by racism up 'til this point of my life.

I know most of the Middle-Easterners and South-Asians who live in Hong Kong are discriminated by most HK people, but I don't.

[Ajmalhuuss]

I am an 18 year old Pakistani-American. I have been in this country since I was 10 years old and have no accent, know the english language well, I understand the culture and know everything there is to know about NY and NJ. I am working 3 jobs right now to try to better my standards of living. Currently I retain, after paying taxes and house payments, somewhere around the neighborhood of 45k. Now I am thinking its time for me to get a new car, since I drive a 1993 Mazda MX-6 LS right now (great GREARTTTT car, but not really something that I would wanna drive everyday). On Monday I saw this AD for a Prosche 944 Cabriotlet and me being a huge Proscha, I wanted to buy it right away. I called the owner of the vehicle and talked to him over the phone. He sounded very pleased with my knowledge of the car and said, "I would love to pass on my baby to you." I was real excited. I then set up an appointment with him to come look at the car the following morning. Everything worked out great over the phone. On tuesday around 12pm I left my house and drove the 80 miles to get to his place. When I got there I was greeted by a wonderful lady (the porsche owner's wife). The lady showed me the car and explained to me the details of it. We then waited for the husband to come back from the store for about half hour and during that time I was then invited into the home and I sat around drinking some coffee. The husband arrived 30 minutes later. As soon as he walked into the door he asks, "Honey, who the F*** is this dez in my house?" I stood up and looked at the guy, I was shocked. He stared dead into my face with grave anger. I took a step towards him and exted my arm, "Hi, I spoke to you over the phone about buying that wonderful car." You told me to come by and look at it today. I have to say sir, I would love to buy it." He walked away from me towards the kitchen and yelled out, "Hey, tell this guy that car ain't for sale and to get out of my house, I got things to do." The turned and looked at the wife who seemed as shocked as I was. She looked at me and apologized for her husband and told me to please give her a call back about the car after she had spoken to the husband. I told her I understood that some people can be really stupid and its not her fault, she did not need to apologize to me.

People like that really upset me. I mean I am a very responsible individual. I can do everything he can and probably tons more. Why should I be looked at like I am not even worth someone's time?

[Applesauce]

People like that really upset me. I mean I am a very responsible individual. I can do everything he can and probably tons more. Why should I be looked at like I am not even worth someone's time?

Crap... Some people need to look beyond appearance. I know I have to do that a lot.

I don't want to, but I discriminate against Mexican people sometimes. I do have some reasons to be prejudiced against them, like for example, the guys who did the tile in my house tried to steal some stuff out of my bathroom and also broke a doorknob and vaccuumed it up to hide it.

But I really don't WANT to be prejudiced towards anyone. Hopefully I'll grow out of this...

[*Weird addiction*]

^ You have to grow out of it.

[Ajmalhuuss]

Yea, I understand. Sometimes you just cant help it. The place I work at makes me have a sterotype against mexican americans. I work with more then 20 of them and not a single one can speak clear english. I mean the only reason it makes me angry is, you are in this country trying to make a better life for yourself, why not work a little to learn the language.

[Applesauce]

Yea, I understand. Sometimes you just cant help it. The place I work at makes me have a sterotype against mexican americans. I work with more then 20 of them and not a single one can speak clear english. I mean the only reason it makes me angry is, you are in this country trying to make a better life for yourself, why not work a little to learn the language.

I can't say that's a big reason to stereotype people, 'cause I don't know much Spanish (I'm supposed to learn it though before college) and I think we U.S. citizens should try to learn their language too.

But I know that it is irksome. They must have their stereotypes for us too, I'm sure.

I do have many nice Mexican American neighbors and it helps to remember that they don't fit the stereotype very well.

[Ajmalhuuss]

Ofcourse, I dont try to judge all of em the same way. Shoot, a lot of my friends are Mexican American. I mean I learned the language, my family learned the language, my friends learned the langugue. Whats stoping them? I learned spanish enough to communicate with them, why not vise versa?

[doork]

Word...
I get called "chink" all the time. It's awfully annoying.
It's because racist white people have hard time telling the difference between different Asian nationalities. Which has also helped created the Asian stereotype: "All you Asians look the same."

Exactly... At my school, which is majority of Blacks and Hispanics. they always be calling me chinks or chinita and whatnot. It used to bother the heck outta me. But now I`m used to it, anytime they call me chinese or whatever. I call them wetbacks or african american.

[kykip]

I have no problem with any other race then mine..
But I do think twice.. If im walking down the street in the middle of the night there there were two roads to go down and one had some "punk" black dude on one road.. and there was a plain white dude down the other I think I would go down the white person's road.. I hope that doesen't make me racist.. Like I said I have no problem with black people. >.<

Well maybe you should think a third time...that scenario was not balanced at all..."punk" vs. plain... ...and stereotyping is a subtitle of racism...never doubt the unexpected...that "plain" white man could have done something to you...worst that that "punk" black guy... with a bias world...he would have gotten away with or lesser charge...did you think twice about that...you just basically stated that you fear black people...why? Half of my life I grew up in a all black community and the second half in a all white community...the only difference is that black people are more hostile cause of situations like this one...they want to be accpeted as an equal individuals...breathing and living like the next...the actions are rebellious...like a 15 year old in their rebellious stage when there parents treat them lesser like a child...if you don't have a problem why comment on it?! Brush it off your shoulders and keep it moving...

By the way, I thought this was experiences, not personal opinions...if you comment about this you obviously have something in the back of your mind that you're covering up...if you're not racist...then there is nothing to comment!

MY EXPERIENCE

I moved to the suburbs in my early pre-teens. In middle school I had a teacher that failed me in every project that I did in her Social Studies class. My parents were concerned because my mom was very active in my studies...she told my mom that I wasn't doing my homework...which my mom knew was a lie because she would help me with my work and I was a honor student for everyother class and teachers loved me. Once I had the best project in the class (even the principal agreed) and she still failed me. She just would not give in. In high school my chemisty teacher gave me a D- on a lab that was done with my lab partner and he got an A and we did the same exact lab...one of each material needed for the experiment...so we had the same results from that one experiment...but I failed...every other paired partners had the same grade. My mom wrote to the Superintendent, School Board, Principal of my school and to the Science Director. He kept that grade and never gave a logical reason why he failed me and gave my partner an A. He also gave me harder test then the rest of my classmates...after a test we would talk about some of the hard questions and they would say...that wasn't on the test...and I would always wonder why he would not give tests back..he would just call us by name and we would go to his desk and he would show us our grade on the front page (like a cover) of our test where we signed our names. At the end of the semester when he gave us a folder of our tests, that's when I compared tests with a a few people and realized I had different tests. All the other teachers loved me. I was an All-American student...A's and B's, captain of my sport, involved in alot of activities, graduated with honors in the top 30 of my class. But I passed anyway..that was the only semester that I got honorable mentioned instead of my usual back and forth highest or just honors...it's wasn't a big deal...I had another incident with the high school principal when I first switched from private school to public schools...but that's another post for another day...

[uLoVeMikeRoch]

I face it everyday. But I don't let it affect me like that. Instead, I use it back against them. If some white guy came up to me and started calling me a chink, then I'll f**king go crazy and just start shooting up the "Honkys", and the "Crackers" and what not. SO yeah, it affects me, but It also affects them.

"and who are asians mostly racist against?"-Everybody.
But who are white people mostly racist against? Everybody
Who are black people more racist against?-Everybody.

It's just a thing with human nature. But with me, EVERYBODY gets affected.

[Ajmalhuuss]

^ Ok shut up.

[rag_poppet]

yea ... I dont really get out of shaped when some one calls me a racial slur like chink. but like Ajhuss said that he talked over the phone and had a conversation about a car and then i go over his house and he starts calling me a chink.. I would probaly bash his porche in if his wife wasnt there...

And no u shouldnt start calling other people racial slurs jsut because they do it to you.It just doesnt solve anything....


And yes alot of Chinese people are racist(Me being chinese) because its just in our culture and ancestry. If you know about chinese history The chinese are very isolated people in the past.They thought they were suprior to others and think of outsiders as barbarians and cavemen if british didnt defeat china I think china would still be isolated....Well anyways I dont think american born chinese are racist only they parents but asian parents have a great affect on their kids because of the strictness and even though they teach us not to be racist you would hear a racial slur come out of their mouth once in awhile


sorry if that was a confusing paragraph lol(im tired)

[melodicminor]

the effect on me has been major...

being a classical musician, there aren't too many minorities in the "orchestral classical music world." my community orchestra had white, asian, and indian people in it. i was the only black person for FOUR YEARS. all through high school. and it doesn't help that a majority of the people are from a stuck up city [city is stuck up as a whole]. i have had KKK jokes told to me by trombone players i have been tormented to the point where i had to go to the conductor. well, i made it to third chair in my section [viola] and they couldn't say nuthin then. they didn't even give me ANY recognition for being in their organization. i don't go to their concerts, but every once in a while i see some of the nice people that were in this orchestra, and i talk to them.

[trulyandnever]

Australia is so awesome :) I have a philo neighbor on my left, and vietnamese on my right. Across, we have a set if italian families, besides them live a few greeks. & we're spanish. Cant say I've ever been affected by racism.. not much of it ever does go on :P

[alysaphobia]

Thank goodness no.
In general, the places I have lived were more open-minded communities than some other places, so encountering actual, full intent racism has been very rare for me.

[*steve330*]

Nah not really. Though I am white. I grew up in an area of houston called Alief where it was pretty ghetto, and now live in a upper-middle class area called Sugar Land. I've always managed to get along with blacks, asians, indians, hispanics no problem. My high school was about 51% asian, 47% white, and I forget the other percentages. Of course asian encompasses oriental, indian, and pretty much anyone from asia.

I actually prefer company of asians sometimes, as I find them smarter, nicer, and funnier. Hell, my girlfriend is Chinese. Of course I have racist thoughts, but they aren't all negative. A lot are seen on the positive side.

[*stephinika*]

Not personally, but I've seen it happen around me and it bothers me.
I've noticed many people (very generally speaking) try to keep to their own ethnic group around here though....they like to congregate together.

[EmoEyelinerx]

My whole school is probably made up of 90% of white people. acism really hasent affected me. Im white and from the suburbs around Detroit in a high class area I guess but im use to seeing blacks and well you get use to it after awhile.

Some of you people are starting to talk about how everyone catigorizes asians/koreans/chineese into just chineese I mean yeah I know the difference between asians/koreans/chineese/japineese/phillipeans and whatever but alot of people dont because, well, the truth is that most of them, do look the same.

^Yeah I noticed that too.

[EmoEyelinerx]

MY EXPERIENCE

I moved to the suburbs in my early pre-teens. In middle school I had a teacher that failed me in every project that I did in her Social Studies class. My parents were concerned because my mom was very active in my studies...she told my mom that I wasn't doing my homework...which my mom knew was a lie because she would help me with my work and I was a honor student for everyother class and teachers loved me. Once I had the best project in the class (even the principal agreed) and she still failed me. She just would not give in. In high school my chemisty teacher gave me a D- on a lab that was done with my lab partner and he got an A and we did the same exact lab...one of each material needed for the experiment...so we had the same results from that one experiment...but I failed...every other paired partners had the same grade. My mom wrote to the Superintendent, School Board, Principal of my school and to the Science Director. He kept that grade and never gave a logical reason why he failed me and gave my partner an A. He also gave me harder test then the rest of my classmates...after a test we would talk about some of the hard questions and they would say...that wasn't on the test...and I would always wonder why he would not give tests back..he would just call us by name and we would go to his desk and he would show us our grade on the front page (like a cover) of our test where we signed our names. At the end of the semester when he gave us a folder of our tests, that's when I compared tests with a a few people and realized I had different tests. All the other teachers loved me. I was an All-American student...A's and B's, captain of my sport, involved in alot of activities, graduated with honors in the top 30 of my class. But I passed anyway..that was the only semester that I got honorable mentioned instead of my usual back and forth highest or just honors...it's wasn't a big deal...I had another incident with the high school principal when I first switched from private school to public schools...but that's another post for another day...

Wow, sorry to hear that that happend to you. I would ahve punched those teachers in the face.

[concreteangel]

My sister is half black/half white. Our mom is white and her dad is black. When she was little people always asked us if she was adopted. It hurt my mom alot to hear people ask that. But now things have gotten better. I think its pretty sad though that her dad doesnt want to have anything to do with her. Pretty much the only father figure that she has had in her life is her godfather and he passed away last May, a couple of days after my high school graduation. But she and I are extremely close.
I hate when people are rascist. Especially since 95% of my friends are black. So I really dont have a problem with what color someone is. I dont look at the color of someone's skin I look at their personality and how they approach people.

[AddenLee]

I'm racest against my own race. does that count? I'm WHite/pale (whatever you prefur) Irish and i hate that fact. The white Irish have done nothing but make things more difficult in northern irland. but besides that, ive only had a few run ins, but ever since i moved to the US, its been fine