Have you ever experienced racism from a minority?

I hope not. Otherwise my uncle isn't my uncle! :p
A friend of mine had something similar in Japan though. He's six foot five and everywhere he went people were either gawking at him or pointing.
 
Gaijin isn't bad, it just means foreigner, which isn't normal for them to see as they have very tight immigration controls. Hardly racist at all
 
Yes. When I was at college back in the late nineties my social group mostly consisted of Asians and I was regularly referred to as "Gora" which means "white man". It didn't really bother me but when I bring it up to hardened lefties I get told it's not racist as it's just a factually accurate statement.

Which is all well and good until I say something like "you see that black fella over there..." and get shocked looks and lectures about how I shouldn't refer to people based on their skin colour and how racist I am for doing so from the same group of hypocritical people.

Another time when I lived in Sweden for a bit I was denied entry to a club on the basis that I was 'drunk'. In reality out of the whole group (the rest were native Swedes) I was the only one who hadn't been drinking but that didn't matter to the Turkish bouncers. It just so happened that England had beaten Turkey at football that day.

Luckily for me one of my best friends back in the UK was Turkish so I rang her and handed the phone over the bouncers. I'm not sure what she said but afterwards they handed me my phone back, told me to walk around the block and come back in 10 minutes which I did and then they let me in.
 
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Guess what?

If your having racism problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but being called a wigga aint one :P
 
Chinese people are frequently quite racist.

White people are stereotyped sex crazed drug dealers. You don't want to know how they view black people.

Racism is endemic in Chinese culture as evidenced by them referring to everyone not Chinese as some kind of devil. Even the name of their country has racist undertones; the Middle Kingdom (of civilisation), surrounded by a world full of barbarians.
 
momentimori said:
Chinese people are frequently quite racist.

White people are stereotyped sex crazed drug dealers. You don't want to know how they view black people.

Racism is endemic in Chinese culture as evidenced by them referring to everyone not Chinese as some kind of devil. Even the name of their country has racist undertones; the Middle Kingdom (of civilisation), surrounded by a world full of barbarians.
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Racist against black and Asians sure, but not so sure against white people.

And the thing about the name of their country, hardly surprising when they were the only developed country in the world when everyone else was living in mud huts a few thousand years ago.
 
platypus said:
I'm kind of expecting some should this relocation work are planning go ahead. From what I understand though as long as I make an effort to learn the language (which I already am doing), try and get involved in the community then I'll be ok.
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I've found people to be really friendly (on the whole) around the Alps, certainly much more welcoming and hospitable than Parisians!
 
Sliver said:
I have not experienced racism personally as far as I know (I'm white) but when I was a kid, my Dad landed a job at coal mine in South Africa. He endured 2 years of racism from the Voortrekkers ( White Dutch descendants) who ran the mine. It started on his first day. After arriving he was taken by his boss to a bike shed. His boss explained to him that the blacks were there to do everything they were told without question. He then called over this poor black guy who just happened to be within shouting distance. The boss told this man to remove his helmet. He then urinated into the helmet and handed it back to the black guy, telling him to wear it, which the black guy did.

My Dad was shocked at this but he'd just moved his family from the UK to South Africa to start a new life so he figured he would persevere. It soon became known that my Dad got on well with the black guys at the mine. He'd chat and crack jokes with them and help them where possible. The Voortrekkers saw this and simply ignored my Dad when he sort help, calling him a kaffir lover. My Dads life was hell and after 2 years of being treated like scum, he finally gave up and we came back to the UK.

Ironically the racism my Dad suffered was white on white.
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That's terrible, but it wasn't your dad suffering from racism, nor was it ironic.

I can't imagine the black guys would be in any sort of rush to help those fools of a coal shaft ever collapsed.

Good on your dad for not letting them make him compromise his own integrity.
 
momentimori said:
Chinese people are frequently quite racist.
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This isn't racist and no doubt other people can confirm it's happened to them but when my eldest came home from visiting the major tourist spots in China I was looking at her photographs and many contained Chinese people in them.
When she asked a friend to take a picture of her nearly every one had a Chinese person in it standing next to her.
Apparently, without asking, the Chinese will run over to a white person and have their friend take a picture and then just walk off.
 
Dimple said:
This isn't racist and no doubt other people can confirm it's happened to them but when my eldest came home from visiting the major tourist spots in China I was looking at her photographs and many contained Chinese people in them.
When she asked a friend to take a picture of her nearly every one had a Chinese person in it standing next to her.
Apparently, without asking, the Chinese will run over to a white person and have their friend take a picture and then just walk off.
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That never happened to me and i've been to China loads!
 
robgmun said:
Just because you saw that word used in Jurassic Park: The Lost world doesn't mean you suddenly know how to use it ;)
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I've never watched it. I know what it means and I know how I'm using it aren't strictly the same, in the same way that Mongoloid is used to refer to people from Mongolia as well as something else.
 
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