racist experiences

[Tanuki]

I personally am a light skinned Puerto Rican and have always spoken very well. As such I'm mistaken for white very often. A fact that I have to deal with when going into ghetto places my extended family tends to frequent. I also went to school in a neighborhood next to a bad neighborhood and had to take the bus through it. Anyway, one day was really bad where people were essentially yelling at me for making a comment I did not say because they instantly assumed a white guy is racist (very racist of black people if you ask me). Needless to say, it was a rather painful morning

[eZe-m3r0-ChuCkY]

no1 can talk about racism 2 me, I'M MEXICAN!
but us mexicans have a never ending pride no1 can take away 4rm!

--mXcN PRiDe!--

[Tanuki]

Actually, yeah, I can. People tend to lump Puerto Rican's and mexicans together a lot of times. On top of that... my people have almost nothing to be proud of. Our saving grace is not being as poor as Dominicans

[bludy mery]

it is hard to understand why people develope opinions based on stigmas and racism, but I think that one of many reasons, is that theese people are sometimes empty and shallow minded, and without all the theories they build about race and religeon they will be nothing... maby its a way to feel superior without achieving something by themselves. like when people clame that they are better than others because of their ethnicity. I think people who have something real to be proud of don't become racists. Lots of cases are caused because of brainwashes. I have been laughed at sometimes because I'm very white but not any thing big... but my grand parents did suffer from racism ( I am jewish).

[Un'Anima Persa]

I am methodist, but my mom is converting to be Jewish, so I am often mistaken as such. Peers in school often take to making fun of the religious path that others take.

[bludy mery]

religion is also a topic that causes lots of hatred and hard issues... and it even gets mixed with race sometimes (like in world war 2 didn't want to mention it)... lots of people tend to speak about races and cultures like they know what they are talking about but actually the world got so mixed up that nobody can really definite a race... there were so many invasions and blood connections and so many years past. It's so irrelevant to speak about ethnicity.
That partition to "Nordic" "Slavic" (is that how they say it?) "semic "(meaning Mediterranean) "Hispanic" "African" "Asian" ... I hope will become more and more meaningless... and it will start when there will be no more hatred groups telling lies - things that are scientifically false and just plain ignorant... and people do have the right to say I'm more attracted to this or that, but I personally see that every "race" has its drop dead ugly and beautiful people... its important to be open minded

[Bextra]

ive never had racist remarks pointed at me but thats probably cos im nz european and in my country we're in the majority, but a few of my friends can be rather racist at times and that puts me in a really awkward position because im either sposed to say something racist or walk away but they are my friends but i dont like racism at all. its just another way of dividing the world, like with rich and poor, fat and skinny. in these terrorist times we shouldnt be dividing we should be bonding with other countriesm, and striving for world peace. wow that was really good, maybe ill do a debate about that in school.

[Asphodel]

I had a friend who was white (I really should say cocasian), and one time when we were walking around campus, an African-American guy walked up and called my friend a "Racist ______" (I don't want to say what he said, it'll probably be censored anyway). It was odd because he was blaming her for being racist, while it was he who was being racist, for thinking that just because she's cocasian, she hates African-Americans.

[Scarlet Lioness]

There are some rasist people in NZ, like Bextra said NZ Euro's are in the majority, but there are also many Cook Island (samoan, tongan, fijiian etc) people here, plus the NZ Maori.
And with religion, I go to a catholic school so 95% of us are catholic the other 5% are other religions, so there is'nt many rasist comments about religions at our school...

[SunsetG|rl]

In our country the main racist thing is about the gypsies... There is this...stereotype I think it's called... that all gypsies are thives and criminals and with a very bad behaviour... It is of course stupid... And there are campains against this... I donno if it will work...Just hope for the best.
As for religion..we have many religions here... And people are generally tolerant...

[Asphodel]

Sometimes prejudices aren't just for race, sometimes there are prejudices against people who are, say, obese.

[SunsetG|rl]

That is because the image sold on the media these days is the image of a skiny woman... You know in the old days, they thought that fatter women look better... It was mostly a sign of wealth... Not everybody had money to keep fat...

[Arun]

I am Indian and I used to have racist comments directed at me after the World Trade Center bombing in New York.
Whi - I mean Caucasian people would refer to me as "terrorist". I really didn't understand why, Arabian people have a lighter skin color than me.