2006-10-02 11:16:28 · 16 answers · asked by Stacy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Yes, they are experiencing it now. It is called reverse discrimination and listening to the whiny minorities.
2006-10-02 11:24:08 · answer #1 · answered by JistheRealDeal 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, it is still happening. Let me give a few specific examples I have heard about.
I had a friend that was a Chemical Engineer. He worked for some oil company over in the middle east. Eventually he left the company because he reached as high as he could in the company. Whites couldn't be higher up.
College is becoming more and more prejudicial with their acceptances. There are fewer and fewer minorities in college, so schools are favoring minority applicants.
As far as the idea that Caucasians invented racism and such...just rubbish. No one can count the number of civilizations that were completely destroyed because no one knows.
I often wonder if developed, liberal countries are just better at pointing out their own problems. Having a free press and freedom of speech would surely help. I know that while I lived in Guatemala I saw more racism and prejudice than I ever have in America, but most Guatemalans I talked to didn't believe that there was racism there.
2006-10-02 11:41:47 · answer #2 · answered by Cadair360 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, White people have faced segregation, prejudice, and racism.
Now, whether or not it was as bad for them as it was for people of color...I would disagree. There are many groups of European descent that have faced their own discrimination. Were they slaughtered for it and held on reservation camps so that they could be something they weren't like the Native Americans? No. Were they ripped from their homes, enslaved and used as labor while being raped, beaten and killed everyday like the Africans? No. Were they taken away from their homes, lost everything that they owned, and placed in internment camps made better for pigs than for human beings like the Japanese Americans? No. Have they been murdered, attacked, spit on, vandalized, and blamed for the 9/11 incident when they had nothing to do with it like the Arab Americans? No.
I agree that racism and discrimination is just that: racism and discrimination. It is wrong on every level and can hurt people tremendously but the amount and severity of racism geared towards people of color can not be denied.
So to everyone b!tching about Affirmative Action, please realize that it was placed there for a reason.
2006-10-02 20:44:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, if you understand that these things can happen on a local basis. Ask a white family who lives in a predominantly black/hispanic/asian neighborhood if they have been the victims of racism or prejudice. I grew up in a Hispanic-dominated area and I certainly felt discriminated against.
The answer is that racism and related acts can occur anywhere, anytime, to anyone. It is incorrect to assume that caucasians are always the prepretrators and never the victims.
2006-10-02 11:28:17 · answer #4 · answered by Senor Pig 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Where? When? In what context?
When the Irish first immigrated to the US, Southern slave owners would send them in to clear the marshes to create more fram land rather than sending their African slaves. The African slaves were too valuable to risk losing to the various diseases one was almost guaranteed to catch. The plantation owners had no problem sending the Irish to their deaths because they were Irish (and because most plantation owners didn't really care about anyone's well-being other than their own)
Nearly all ethnic groups faced similar prejudice as they immigrated. It's where many the negative terms for people of various cultures come from. The reason some areas of the US have concentrations of different ethnicities is because they found hostile environments as they arrived. So they would continue to move westward until they found a place they could settle and not face bigotry. That and looking for a place that looked like home.
2006-10-02 11:22:06 · answer #5 · answered by misskate12001 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
who the hell said Holocaust? that was the Jews!!!! Caucasians are not usually the Jews they had their own persecution. the white do face racism but usually from a group or people that they were being racist against. some whites hates Jews. some hate the Mexicans and like the cubans and they are still Hispanic. some hate blacks Indians anything that isn't a real Caucasian. sad
2006-10-02 11:59:32 · answer #6 · answered by sexylousleo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All the time, perhaps when a minority gets a federal project just because they are a minority, or how about the ***** college,(no whites allowed),Maybe you should watch b.e.t. and see how whites gets slammed yet whites dont dare make the same type of comments about others without reprisal,How about all the times blacks have called people cracker and f...king whity while beating them, without getting charged for a hate crime.
Or does Chocolate town ring a bell?
2006-10-02 12:19:13 · answer #7 · answered by scary g 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every race faces racism from some people.
2006-10-02 11:23:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
there is a cause and effect to everything you do.
If they expenice prejudice, segregation, racism it more than likely a effect of something they did.
2006-10-02 12:55:45 · answer #9 · answered by justme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alot of things happened because of not knowing each other you can call it ignorance but I as a christain doe's not look back , i'm looking foward to Gods Kingdom that is to come to bring true peace and understanding to us all.
2006-10-02 11:20:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋