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Discrimination Experiences
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i think they mean mixed race mate lmao
I'm Filipino, and my family and a bunch of other friends went to China once where the discrimination against Filipinos was p bad in our experience. We were almost scammed out of our money because they thought we were stupid or smth, and they did talk to us like we were lesser people than them. I'm never going back there. 
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I was mostly offended when I once went to comic con and they were displaying old nintendo consoles and handhelds and was interested in the game collection of the DS and when I asked the guys about them he said "do you even know what this is?" and at another comic con where overwatch was the highlight at the time a guy who was one of the hosts asked me a question about the game and before I could open my mouth he said "do you even know what I'm talking about?"
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I don?t even get "races", maybe it?s just a thing with the english language? I?m german and if you used the word "race" in relation to human here, people would think you are a racist or worse neo-nazi.
To be honest I haven?t experienced a lot discrimination (at least not that i?m aware of..) but I feel my country is kind of discriminating against itself. It?s true that the nazis were terrible and that "who doesn?t learn history is forced to repeat it", but I feel like they went too far here. From middle school to my school-graduation, nazi-germany was a part of every school year history class. I feel it?s getting to the point where we are just a tad too strickt on ourselves. Bad things happened, many countries did and still do horrendous things, but it goes a bit far if we still try to make children today feel guilty and ashamed for something a bunch of brainwashed soliders (and some mad leaders) did long before they were born. I feel this is also one of the reasons the right get?s more followers in recent years, if we constantly put ourselves down - no wonder people find it easier to rebell against the anti-patriotism prevalent in society. If the left wasn?t so hardcore, less people would shift to the far-right.
Another thing, though not my experience:
I have a few hijabi friends and one of them told me how she was walking home from school. An old lady was walking in her direction, when she saw her, she changed to the sidewalk across the road. That?s more of a heartbreaking side to prejudice.
To be honest I haven?t experienced a lot discrimination (at least not that i?m aware of..) but I feel my country is kind of discriminating against itself. It?s true that the nazis were terrible and that "who doesn?t learn history is forced to repeat it", but I feel like they went too far here. From middle school to my school-graduation, nazi-germany was a part of every school year history class. I feel it?s getting to the point where we are just a tad too strickt on ourselves. Bad things happened, many countries did and still do horrendous things, but it goes a bit far if we still try to make children today feel guilty and ashamed for something a bunch of brainwashed soliders (and some mad leaders) did long before they were born. I feel this is also one of the reasons the right get?s more followers in recent years, if we constantly put ourselves down - no wonder people find it easier to rebell against the anti-patriotism prevalent in society. If the left wasn?t so hardcore, less people would shift to the far-right.
Another thing, though not my experience:
I have a few hijabi friends and one of them told me how she was walking home from school. An old lady was walking in her direction, when she saw her, she changed to the sidewalk across the road. That?s more of a heartbreaking side to prejudice.
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Ahh. Since the Trump presidency people have gotten very forward with their racism in California. I'm Mexican and I've had people look at me funny just for talking to my mom in Spanish. I've heard the "speak English this is America" bit way too many times.
The closest thing I’ve experienced to discrimination in real life is when in 4th grade these 2 Puerto Rican kids at my table said Puerto Rican people are better than Portuguese people. On the internet I was looking at something on debate.org I think and it was should America return the land that it took from Mexico in the Mexican-American war and one person said no because America is the best and that basically the Iberians don’t know how to put together or run a country and that they aren’t as good as other Europeans [Iberians include people from the Iberian peninsula, so Spanish and Portuguese people, (I’m Portuguese)]. I honestly think a Neo Nazi probably wrote that comment. So I’ve never experienced real discrimination. Anything else someone in real life could discriminate against me for no one knows (I guess that could assume though).
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The fact that this is America means we should probably be speaking Native American languages and not English.
I’ve never heard anyone say that in this area though, probably because it’s basically run on immigrants.
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The fact that this is America means we should probably be speaking Native American languages and not English.
I’ve never heard anyone say that in this area though, probably because it’s basically run on immigrants.
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Like being racially mixed.
I'm white-passing and I usually just refer to myself as white because I haven't taken the time to re-connect with my culture yet, but I have Indigenous heritage, and when I was about 8, the landlady of my building found out about it and then within a few days had come up with an excuse to evict me and my Mom... we weren't disruptive tenants at all, but she had come up with a really big stretch of a reason to get rid of us.
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Yes, I honestly hate that. I?m more than capable of performing any task, even if that tasked is typically viewed as a ?man?s job.? It sucks when people view you as less capable just because you are a girl. Sexism sucks...
I agree on this, however, my parents still view certain things as mens’ jobs and certain things as womens’ jobs, and I don’t understand at all. I even get out of their way to let a girl that’s a coworker get a task done if they don’t need my help with it, but then my parents get onto me for that and it really makes no sense. It’s just a stigma that there are certain tasks for men and women.
Now I understand if it’s something like the difference between Baseball and Softball... no matter how strong a woman is, it’s hard for her to throw a ball 90 MPH overhand without injuring some part of her body. But that’s generally in the realm outside of sexism and in the realm of physical limits of the human body.
Everything else though should be able to be performed by both a man AND woman.
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I went to Spain in August last year.
I tried to go to this restaurant for brunch and the lady who was sweeping the floor said we couldn't get in, despite there being a bunch of people behind her eating their bacon, toast, eggs and sausages. lol. The place was open until 6 pm, so that isn't an explanation for her not allowing us in and we weren't being a bunch of idiots while we were walking past the place either.
Everyone in the restaurant, including the woman, was Spanish. It's the only explanation I can come up with to explain why she wouldn't let us.
We just walked away in confusion, there was nothing reasonable about her refusing entry. I was angry because I was hungry af and I had been up since early in the morning because of the heat.
I want some food, the food those guys had on their plates looked soo good.
That entire holiday was a disaster, so it kind of made it worse.
We found another restaurant with crappy service around the corner and the burger was bland. I just wanted good food ;o;
This is kind of an assumption on my part but I think my thoughts are reasonable, maybe the woman didn't think we deserved her glorious food.
I tried to go to this restaurant for brunch and the lady who was sweeping the floor said we couldn't get in, despite there being a bunch of people behind her eating their bacon, toast, eggs and sausages. lol. The place was open until 6 pm, so that isn't an explanation for her not allowing us in and we weren't being a bunch of idiots while we were walking past the place either.
Everyone in the restaurant, including the woman, was Spanish. It's the only explanation I can come up with to explain why she wouldn't let us.
We just walked away in confusion, there was nothing reasonable about her refusing entry. I was angry because I was hungry af and I had been up since early in the morning because of the heat.
I want some food, the food those guys had on their plates looked soo good.
That entire holiday was a disaster, so it kind of made it worse.
We found another restaurant with crappy service around the corner and the burger was bland. I just wanted good food ;o;
This is kind of an assumption on my part but I think my thoughts are reasonable, maybe the woman didn't think we deserved her glorious food.
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