Has anyone experienced racial discrimination?
342792
Yes, and it's terrible. I think we should just learn to get along with each other and love each other. Instead of hating each other.
739530
Actually happened to me.  \nEverybody let everybody go ahead and go first.  \nSometimes we waited in lines and exchanged stories with each other.   \nI didn't see anybody act greedy or rude or impatient.\nIt was a very humbling experience to see that human nature, during hard times, is extremely giving and tolerant.
454968
so if the program was completely filled with only indians, would you find this discrimination against other races? what if it was only white people, would it make a difference? my best guess at quota systems is that they are designed to prevent racial monopoly. ie all white schools have to let in other racial groups. the whole thing is racism regardless of fairness. no race should create a monopoly in any resource and then block out other races from having equal oppurtunity.  maybe this is not happening in your situation, then im sorry if your being discriminated against
786331
Racial discrimination is everywhere.
831265
I do not feel any prejudice towards people of any race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, religion, or spirituality. I believe so strongly that all humans should be treated fairly and equally. I have given up friendships and relationships because of this belief.\n\nThere are so few things I feel are worth standing up and fighting for - against anyone at any time...this is one of those things.\n\nI hope your question isn't asked because you are struggling to understand why someone is discriminating towards you, but I fear it is. My sincerest wish is that you find the answers you are looking for and are able to know that no matter what prejudicial thing anyone says or does to you - NO MATTER WHAT, it's never about you. Hate and ignorance are ALWAYS about the person speaking or acting. Know that, try to educate them if the opportunity is there and be confident and calm in the knowledge that it is NOT ABOUT YOU.
878735
No, racism involves believing that you are superior to another race and also inflicting some form of harm (whether) verbal or physical onto someone else because of their race.\n\nThere are, unfortunately enough of those types around.  You are not racist.
391785
yes.  i believe everyone is racist, including me.  we live in a world that tells us since childbirth that dark people are bad.  if u are in a family of dark-complected people, chances are they tell u the opposite- that white people are evil.  society is setup this way, so I'm wary of anyone who says they have totally escaped this conditioning- don't trust them on that. \n\ni realize that i contain this bias and I'm always trying to improve it... rather than most people who deny they have any racism in themselves, and never try to improve it, since they won't admit they have a problem. \n\nit's a worldwide problem.  I'm American but a friend from India once told me that "anywhere i go, I'll catch hell" because of my dark skin.
685940
I agree with you that it does occur, though I feel people too often cry discrimination just so they can get something out of it, not necessarily because it truly occurred.  Sorry if that's not really an opposing argument, but perhaps it will add another angle to your paper?
581245
In my local pub I was drinking away minding my own business when a member of staff behind the bar, right in front of me said she could not believe niggers had been in earlier that day, with their kids, for a drink (her words).\nThe guy she was chatting to seemed astounded it had happened and brought the matter up with the landlord of the pub.\nHe said his hands were tied but that other customers had made it clear the family were not welcome and they had left, quickly.\n\nI had been drinking there for about 12 months since moving to the area and hadn't even noticed there were no black people going in there as skin colour means little to me.\n\nI made a point of telling the landlord and his staff what i thought of their attitude and vowed never to return.\n\ni have to walk past that pub to go in to town, and now i get abuse to.\n\nSmall minded racist wankers.\n\nWho needs them.
1075283
Yes many times. Being Hispanic in South U.S. is not a good thing. The latest thing that has happened was that an old man was walking out of a store and I opened the door for him he looked at me, turned his head and opened the other door. I felt offended.
1131925
No...but my so called "Best Friend" hated one of my other "Best Friends". We're not friends anymore though...and it's a rather long, rather racist story so I won't go into details...
109744
Great question.  I think most racial groups have racist members in them, and I think these racist feelings stem from personal experiences with other races.  Newer examples of racism tend to be among minority races.  Black people in my area don't like Hispanic people, and Asian people don't like black people.  These issues come from what they perceive about the other races based on their interactions with a select few.  I think a lot of white people are quieter about their racist feelings now and often don't realize their feelings are racist.  The older I get, the more I see that the real problems are between the haves and the have nots as opposed to the "whites and the blacks."  I personally think the issues in New Orleans had far more to do with poverty than with race.  On a side note, one of the "selling points" for one school in New Orleans was that their school had a copier so teachers wouldn't have to make their copies at the central office.  My school has 3 copiers (in NC).  When dealing with THAT sort of poverty, I think the problems with the gov't have far more to do with poverty than with race.  I rambled.  Sorry.
536063
I have been discrimanated against because I am a woman with a mental illness and suffer seizures - and unfortunately the discrimination comes from those who say they love me the most and want to take the best care of me and that I can trust the most - but there actions don't line up with their words.  I have been denied places to live because I made too much money in a year prior to a year that I had no income whatsoever - I have been denied medicaid because I have no child in my home and yet I have an unlimited amount of expenses!  I was denied shelter at a women's shelter because they could not see any bruises, but I had been a battered wife for five years and finally decided I'd had enough - they told me to come back when it was obvious.  Discrimination happens everyday and it doesn't really matter what color, gender, religion or if you're having sex or not.
470888
I think it's similar to "race discrimination" it's only the whites that do it.\n\nhttp://thebaldchemist.blogspot.com/
1089396
well you are not the only one, my hubby is white n im black, we were in spain and  went in this restaurant sat and waited for my husband to bring food coz it was self service, you wont believe this white employee came and told me to stand up, this really hurts especially when it comes to skin colors, why behave that way i thought racism was ignorant but they still do it so intensly, even in shopping malls they wont serve you  or ask you how can they help you. i was really hurt by that experience, and some of them just think black ladies are prostitutes and nothing else.
499671
I think discrimination isn't exactly racial anymore, but it's still prevalent in society nonetheless. It's cleverly hidden and well lives in today's "politically correct" social and office rules (some of which have even been made into laws).\n\nSo instead of a certain cultural facet of society being singled out, now EVERYONE gets burned in one way or another. We see it take on many fomrs: from job applicants being "under" or "over qualified", to "affirmative action" hiring pratices, to "no smoking" in just about all areas in your city. \n\nAnd let's not forget there's "economic discrimination", where you pay more or less depending on your sex or paying higher prices and sales taxes due to "theft threats" by certain areas of society...or even to benefit "underprivilged/handicapped" certain citizens of society.\n\nDiscrmination has been given new politically correct/sanitized names...but it's still what it is: and it's NOT going out of society anytime soon.
887086
I am white, but I can tell you that any kind of hate hurts. \n A few years ago, I was working at a fast food restaurant. I had a problem with a black female customer who started calling me prejudice (among a few racial slurs). The entire crew laughed so hard, they had tears in their eyes. A few minutes later, my black husband walked in the door! The customer was so embarrassed, I bet she learned her lesson.\n People know that racism still hurts, why do you think that customer started yelling the racial slurs? She damn sure wasn't trying to tip me! It did hurt me until the store crew pointed out the humor in the situation by laughing at her.