Do you feel discrimination b/t groups can be reduced or eliminated?
829277
If it can let me know how. There was just a National Smoke out Day.Wouldn't it be nice if there was a Hate Free Day
974925
I am able to understand your feeling. I am also a person not eligible for reservation. In my opinion, there is still some justification for some categories of socially backward classes. But, I am of the firm view that this special dispensation should be only for a limited period and cannot extended for a time in perpetuity. If backwardness will continue despite reservation, there is justification for reservation. Creamy layer concept is a welcome one and is in line with the spirit of rationalisation of reservation.
361488
Not all people think it's OK anyway.\nBut if you're against a certain group, you will feel that it's OK to be a racist against them and you will defend the other groups that you're not against.
672440
Maybe in a perfect world.How do we rid the world of racism & ignorance?
566330
Yes.......as a white Southern male I've seen and experienced racism, myself. I've been excluded, leered at, screamed at and taken advantage of. I've felt fear and have had to protect myself. I've been taxed unfairly to pay for racially-motivated legislation. My work AND home neighborhoods have been targeted by minorities to rob and vandalize.\n\nMy city has suffered the ravages of bus sing and unfair teacher retention based on race. I have been discriminated  against in employment because of my race and high level of education and general achievement.\n\nAlthough my race is TEMPORARILY in the majority, here, I cannot take my grievances to any court because the majority is not "protected"..........while the minorities are protected in court as a "persecuted minority".\n\nThe State University that I was attending was totally disbanded and then occupied by court-order by an historically minority university that has deliberately thumbed its nose at the friendly courts and refused to integrate the requested 27%.....and until this day has decreased its population of white students down below 9%.\n\nHowever, I am not bitter. I love it here in my city and hope that any/all minorities that have misunderstood the majority stance on these subjects will come to some common-sense reassessments of their positions.\n\nI hope for peace and prosperity for all of my fellow Southern citizens.......with plenty of happiness and health thrown in for good measure.
159933
People are still racist. They may say they're not, but they're lying. Racism, sexism, anti-semitism, homophobia other prejudices take time and effort to eliminate. It seems like with every landmark achieved, we stop working on eliminating prejudice. But it's continuous, intergenerational struggle. \nIt's a mistake to think that racism should just magically disappear just because it's 2006. It takes work.
949200
i understand what you're saying... it's over for us(white) but it just keeps on goin for you. when my sister married a black man it became clearer to me how much prejudice there still is today..i've also had some black friends "educate"me about what they go through and i feel a little less ignorant than before, but there's alot of ignorance  out there and i hope for your sake there are more changes coming
978911
Well, I am neither bi-racial or multiracial, but I notice being white I still face discrimination sometimes.  Some people automatically assume I am racist, even though I am so far from it.  For example, the other day at work a Hispanic couple (their race doesn't matter to me, but it illustrates the point) came up to pay for their dinner with a credit card.  Our policy is that we ask everyone for I.D. when they are paying with a card.  It's for their protection, but also because we have seen cases of fraud.  Anyhow, he seemed a little irritated, but he showed me, finished the bill and left.  About 20 minutes later his wife called and spoke to my manager and said that I was being racist asking for I.D. because they were Hispanic.  My manager explained that asking for I.D. is a company policy and that I was only doing what I was told.  She told them next time they came in that they would receive a free dinner.  However, when she hung up, she came and told me she had watched me when they were paying and that I had done absolutely nothing wrong, and that if those people ever came in again to let her know so that she would ask them to leave.  It kinda bothered me because I know I am not racist in the slightest, but I just laughed it off because I knew it was their ignorance and not mine.  Gosh, sorry for making this so long.
923693
It really depends cos it and go towards 2 extremes, segregation may die away, but those who have been under it alot may express it on others.
626474
I would have to say yes and its not only true with race.  As soon as you identify strongly with any group of people you automatically trust and respect your group more than the other group with nothing to base that on other than its your group.  \n\nIf we can just take it to another level and decide that we are all human beings and that we all belong to the same race then we wouldn't need all these subdivisions.  \n\nOn the other hand if we were truly non racist then we wouldn't have to worry about it.  Racism has improved but we still have a way to go.  Lets not take too many more backwards steps.
1079034
it is the governments way of trying to make things right for what the blacks were put through many years ago. \n i don't think it is discriminiation. i do think though that it is sad that every nationality can have their own organizations, except whites. because if we were to have a group or organization to celebrate the fact that we are white, people would think we were some hate group or something.
203496
Humans are not perfect and can never be perfect. We are never fully in control of our own emotions, and the more opportunity we have for acting on our emotions the more likely we are to cause trouble. Therefore, all our ills stem from our imperfection and therefore prejudice, discrimination, and violence will never be eliminated.\n\nThat being said, they can be minimized. Prejudice, descrimination, and ultimately violence are expressions of the same problems: greed and a perception of differences, be they racial, gender, social, wealth, handicap, etc. Everybody has essentially insatiable wants: greed. To satisfy these wants, one group of people will inevitably resort to trying to take advantage of another: discrimination. The struggle of one group against another for dominance ensues time and again: violence.\n\nGreed is an immutable facet of the human being, as natural as hunger. Though greed can't be effectively curtailed, one might instead minimize differences between groups of people and thereby reduce the number of targets for prejudice, discrimination, and violence. To do this, one would have to create a single class of humans that is as all-encompasing as possible. The only way I think this is truly possible is for all governments and religions to be united as one (or, alternatively, eliminated) and either all wealth and means of attaining wealth to be as equally distributed as possible or hoarded for the state's exclusive use; either way, people are equally well (or poor) off. Attempted methods for creating a single group of people are myriad, ranging from Nationalism (allow only a single ethnic group to exist) to Communism (ascendancy of one all-encompasing economic class) to Anarchy (eliminate all major classes so everyone is equally insignificant) to various forms of utopianism too varied and unlikely to count.\n\nObviusly, these solutions don't seem very palatable to a democratic people, but prejudice and violence is the price we have to pay for diversity and freedom.
606370
In case there's any dispute, I'm heterosexual.  However, I very strongly believe in equality for ALL people, regardless of gender, nationality or sexual preference.  I suspect I feel so strongly because I understand descrimination (being a female in a male dominated work place, and because of my religious beliefs) and I hate to listen to narrow-minded, egocentric verbal diarrea that some individuals feel they have a right to inflict upon the world.\n\nI also feel the need to confront and challenge people when they shoot their mouths off in my presence, because so long as people deem it acceptable to spread hatred, they will continue to do so.\n\nIt's okay to disagree, but it's not okay to demoralize a person or a group of people over something they have no control over.\n\nMy advice to anyone who feels as strongly about this as I do, is to never let an oportunity pass to publically embarass somebody (I'm not suggesting a physical altercation) who goes out of their way to hurt people.  Let everyone around see how stupid discriminatory behavior is.  Show these people that this behavior is not acceptable.
49419
I've never ever felt discriminated against for being a woman.  There are things I have felt discrimated against for and these are...\n1)having three kids (in trying to rent a place or getting a job), \n\n2)choosing to stay at home with my kids vs. working outside the home\n\n3)Being low-income.
101464
Ther is no need to ratify the constution for any one particular group's wishes. There are alredy anti-discrimination laws in our country. If someone is unhappy with a law, they should work within the system to change that law. Change cannot be forced and can only come from within. What needs to change is our perception that any group of people should have more or less rights than any other group.
296895
If anyone lives in a diverse community they are bound to be discriminated against. I have had blatant discrimination, which shocked me, then angered me. After I forgave the ignorant attack and realized others endure much more, much more often than I do.\n\nI have a lot of friends outside of my race, I am perplexed often by their(some not all)preoccupation with race (mine and theirs) and how their identity is so wrapped up in being Black, Peurto Rician or Dominican etc. I generally do not think about my race, I'm white and I think in general whites do not allow race to identify them, unless they are racists. I actually get uncomfortable when I am introduced as Italian-American ...I am not uncomfortable with my heritage, just being labeled in a way that makes being Italian-American seem like the second most important thing for someone I am introduced to know about me.
284185
Prejudiced against what--Asia, Muslims, people with dark skins?\n\nIn general I'd say prejudice feels good.  Putting someone down makes people feel better.  Sad but true.  I don't know if the West is more inclined to prejudice--human nature is the same in all cultures.