Racism hiding racism?
I'm going to give you 2 samples
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1. Girl from South Africa moved into our house because she used to live alone & wanted to have company. Despite making her feel welcome & treated her no differtly from each other, she moved out saying she was lonely (despite chatting to her every time she came and went in the house, I’m the chatterbox of the house and often say otter nonsense to get people talking). She was always making nasty comments about the about the Korean house mate (a shy and nice girl) but I took down do hating noise at 2 in the morning (the Korean girl is a night owl). She now won’t talk to us and only talks to people her own colour, we were upset & a little insulted that she suggested we were excluding her.
2. I’m friends with a French girl who lived with Italians but was always ignored because of her different culture & the Italians blamed her for her exclusion. I was invited to a party but these Italians would not speck to me & barley to her, (an hour of this was horrible but I felt it would be rude to leave) we danced, I attempted to make idle chit chat but it was rely frustrating. I think only a German guy managed to talk to me because he liked my guts (only English speaker) attending a party of international; students. A few days later the Italians were moaning that they are being excluded by the native English speakers & we were all racist. I got really annoyed because after trying to be friendly when in their house, two parties & attempts to engage with them, they still refused to even acknowledge my existence. They excluded anyone who was not willing or unable (me) to relate to them in every way.
I know i'm not racist I may be a little clueless to other cultures at times but we are all guilty of that. Both cases state that all English speaker are racist this hurtful to any English speaker who attempt to socalise with everyone equal but I’m annoyed with them claming racism when do hide where own racism.
So how to we get along when we won’t put away our own misconceptions?
I hate to use titles like Italian, french est. but only way I could illustrate the issue without suggesting names.
2007-05-05
02:47:42
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