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Yes. But I can't understand why our very white classmates have to discriminate us.
by mbadisaster 14y ago
Yes. But I can't understand why our very white classmates have to discriminate us.
- kls 14y agoI don't know if what you experienced was racism or not, I cannot make that call, but I can say this in my experience Americans by the majorities are not racist. What they are though is culturalist, if you do not make an effort to adapt to the American system you will stand out and you will be treated different because well you are different. It may be a bit xenophobic but generally it's roots are not in racism but rather a natural response to something that is different. This happened to all the different waves of European immigrants in our early history. There where times where Irish culture or German culture was looked down on and as it assimilated into the fabric of US culture it eventually faded into obscurity. The very same things is now taking place with South American culture, in places like Texas or Florida those cultures have been assimilated into the fabric of US culture. It may be that you come from a culture that is not well represented in the US and therefore you receive a natural reaction to something that is foreign to someone else. I am not trying to excuse the behavior, just wanted to highlight that racism is usually the result of hatred for ones fellow man the kind that reared it's ugly head in WW2 Germany, and I personally have seen very little true racism in the US.