I've always considered myself a person who takes everybody on face value and doesn't discriminate.
However , recently I've moved to "middle England" and to be honest a predominantly white neighbourhood. The other day I saw an Asian guy near our street, instead of treating him like they normally do in the south (ie ignore them, (not what I am used to in the North!!)), I went out of my way to say hello as I wanted him to feel welcome, ie treating him differently because he was Asian, does that make me a racist? If I wasn't racist surely I would have treated him like any other neighbour and ignored him.
This is a genuine question , if we lived in a non-racist society surely we would have to be completely colour blind, wrt positive and negative aspects.
2006-08-20
09:20:22
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Richard H
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