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My guess is that your household income is at least $150k? Wealth can be a partial vaccine against discrimination.

• scarface74 9y ago
  Yes, On that note, sure my son's girlfriend's parent seemed okay with her dating a Black kid. But when he dropped her off to our house for the first time, coming into our neighborhood of new houses where on the entry way it says "houses starting at $X" where $X denotes that we were probably upper income, and from my sons mannerism and speech you could tell that he grew up in the "right part of town". Would he be okay if my son was the same kid but we lived in a poorer part of town? Probably not.
• collyw 9y ago
  Or maybe people are discriminating against poverty / class rather than race.
  • scarface74 9y ago
    No it's definitely both. But, while there are a lot of studies showing discriminitstion, to a point, depending on what part of the country you are in, how well connected you are, status (not necessarily income) and how well you can "fit in", it can be less of an issue.
    • collyw 9y ago
      Where I come from in the UK there isn't a lot of racism (that I am aware of) but I do see huge similarities in the way that classes treat each other to the way races treat each other in the US.