Should try being a woman and having to go to school with people from the ME/NA region and get called a whore almost every day simply because you're swedish and have them try to grope you because you're "dressing like a whore"(T-shirt and jeans apparently is dressing like a whore), you'll find that you'll grow to hate them aswell. Even more so when the school doesn't do anything about it and just accept it.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.
Yaay, role-reversal!
I wish I lived in the same world as you where racism has never lead to physical violence or attempts to make a certain race subservient to another.
I can only speak as to how I would handle the situation but I don't think skin colour would play an issue, more the way they were conducting themselves, the time of day/night, the location etc... Living in Scotland I'm more likely to be confronted by a group of white guys in track suits than a group of black guys.
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the context is in the use those facts are used in. the simplest corruption of statistics is when you use a single factor like Race in a complex problem like crime statistics. for example what would the statistics show for crime committed by persons with an annual income in excess of 250,000 a year?
if it's a fact that black people commit more crimes than other races, then the statistics should hold relatively true regardless of income range. so by taking only a small bit of information and removing it from the rest of the data you corrupt it and make it give the implication that the reason those people committed more crimes is because they are of a specific race, if that wasn't what you were trying to show there is no reason to remove that specific bit of information from the rest of it and display it out of context.
So you're saying that you were called names and groped by their parents and siblings as well as the majority of kids? Or perhaps that isn't what you meant.
In any case, you're probably remembering the actions of a few and transferring that to the majority, then transferring that to the entire region. Even if it was every single person at the school it would still not be right to judge the entire region based on one fucked up school.
Racism is stupid, people are a product of their environment, race isn't a part of that.
I guess that means that whites are backstabbing cunts who'll step on a baby for a lousy piece of coin. I mean, just look at history right?
I'm not sure people know this, but humans are all the same regardless of how tanned they are or if they were spawned in the jungle or the desert. If you took the kid of Lord Nicington and Lady Well-to-Do and let a couple of Colombian smack-dealers raise it, you'd have the same kind of brat they'd spawn themselves. And vice-versa.
Unfortunately, people still subscribe to a cave-man mentality that only those that look like me are good and everyone else is bad, and I'm pretty sure that we'll never get over it until we've got aliens to contend with, in which case all the dirty coloured people will look enough like Joe Whiteguy that we'll all be able to bond over our hatred of those dirty, stinking aliens.
One thing is racism and other thing that none usually talk about is aesthetics.
Some people simply don't like X skin color, they could still be good friends with those but they won't as they mostly won't start words with them.
I think that part is fine as long as no racism is involved. It's like going into a gay bar with friends, you could speak with someone inside in a friendly way, but there's no point because you don't want anything with that people, yet you respect them since them since you don't have kind of problem with them.
That said, I don't have any of those issues, but that's definitely not racism
I think racism is like the internet trolls, everyone will call someone a troll even if he's not, even he simply did a bad joke. Same goes with racism, some people think in some way, yet it doesn't mean they are racists.
People throw words like stupid and idiot around way too easily and for all the wrong reasons. Being intolerant doesn't make you an idiot. It either makes you just plain judgemental or weathered. If you lived where I live, you'd keep an eye on black people whenever you see them after seeing the kind of things black males do in public areas here. I'm not racist, but knowing what those type of human beings do around here, I'm obviously not going to assume their swell fellas. Stereo types are true most of the time, it's the soft-bellied fools like you who can't accept uncomfortable truths that think they aren't.
It's more that their parents condoned that type of behaviour. They didn't do anything. Neither did the school. Their siblings were part of it, they were walking around in gangs. Sitting alone on the bus after school was out of question if you didn't want them to come, having to actively search out groups of swedish people just to be left alone is rather ridiculous.
Most people I've met from those regions have been equally skewed in their view on women. Feels more like the norm they're like that and that not being like that is an exception, have only met a few who didn't behave in that way.
While you can believe in stereotypes, there is a difference when it comes to giving an equal chance to people despite their "race".
IMO the racist word is used too much these days, and it has lost it's true meaning. Or atleast it has lost it's meaning to me. What it used to mean atleast to me, was the ideal thinking of "If you're black, you're.. umm.." Well shit, can't figure out anything that rhymes well. But you know, "if it's red, it's dead".
It seems that everyone is a racist these days, no matter what you do. "I don't like the middle-east shit" bam, you're racist.
Good old American history X is a good movie about racism, and everything what a racism is.
I avoid gypsies and I've had very bad experience from them. I also don't have good experiences confronting skinheads either. I don't go out and flash out my phone and wallet near the Somalian gangs in the railway station. List goes on and on with junkies and whatnot.
I'm not a racist.