Do you find it patronising when people act really overly PC around you and when ever they say something like "blackboard" they stop and make a big fuss saying "oh I hope that didn't offend you" I sit next to an indian girl in my English class, she thinks its ridiculous and wishes people would just treat her normaly instead of making a big issue out of her race and seperating her from everyone else.
2007-02-17 00:55:27 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
My parents were from India and I was born and brought up in England. Therefore, I hve kinda got immune to racism as I think and act like an Englishman and dont really see the colour of skin, nor do I get overly offended by racist comments. I believe that people that are racist have a right to their opinion and that most people that make such comments are ignorant anyway.
2007-02-17 00:59:35 · answer #1 · answered by Prince 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Gotta agree with 'Bowlocks' - being ginger I quite often feel I'm treated differently - as if at any given moment I'm going to explode with fury! Add a pair of specs to the scenario and that sends some people right over the edge!
OK, you may not class being a redhead as an ethnic minority, but people will always marginalise anyone who is a little different from the norm - whatever that is.
Why give 'Bowlocks' a 'bad answer'?
2007-02-18 17:51:56 · answer #2 · answered by joksand 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a white European living in Europe, right now I'm not from an ethnic minority, but I have been. I've lived in India and Hong Kong.
I take people as they are, without getting hung up on colour, race, religion, ethnie. Because of this, I find it easy to relate to people as people, without all these hang-ups.
Not calling a black board a black board is really sad - especially since I thought all places of learning now had white boards. (Even that yellow coated chalk dries out your hands!)
Once you have established how you really think and what your attitude is, you can even have some fun. I remember saying to a Sudanese friend, 'You killed General Gordon.' Such remarks shouldn't be taken out of context.
However, I remember being a bit put out when I was in England just after the anti-racist laws were introduced. I went into a shoe shop to buy shoes for my children. The assistants were not around. An Afro-Caribbean came in after me. When the assistants had finished their tea-break, one of them emerged from the back room and, without asking who was first, immediately served the man. He did not say that I was there before him.
2007-02-17 09:31:55 · answer #3 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People are only offended by the words that they fear are true.
People only use words that are offensive are only offending themselves.
in other words, low people TRY to take people down with them and those who are in the spirit try to lift others up.
It is ridiculous in every way imaginable, but she doesn't have to listen to it either. A very polite request that they take their negativity and shove it where the sun can't see is a good way to respond.
well, it's not the best way, but we're only human after all. I would tell those people to look in the mirror and know that they are Indian,too. Every person on the planet has some shade of black in them. It's in their DNA and a scientific fact that all humans came out of Africa.
2007-02-17 09:01:57 · answer #4 · answered by vicarious_notion 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I'm human. I'm sick of being looked down on by everyone else. You know how it feels when you're in a shop and six pairs of eyes watch your every move. You try to act all nonchalent but you just know that they think you're scum and are going to nick everything that's not nailed down.
I suppose that comes from being the new kids on the block. Once they get used to us being there, it might change. Once they realise that just because we look different doesn't automatically mean that we're bad. Just because our skin is a brownie colour, instead of a bluey colour doesn't mean that we're trying to hide something. ... Oh well.
2007-02-17 18:15:01 · answer #5 · answered by elflaeda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate people who are politically correct. I don't respect them. I'm not from an ethnic minority yet but if the British government keeps letting foreigners in, I will become one.
2007-02-17 09:24:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is perhaps one of the biggest problems and is in fact a sign of true racism because only a true racist treats people differently.
2007-02-17 09:00:08 · answer #7 · answered by ByeBuyamericanPi 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The problem is people are scared to open their mouth incase they say something not PC.
Not being PC is NOT racist!
PC has been taken too far
2007-02-17 10:41:01 · answer #8 · answered by Live&LetLive 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes, first im English, and second im disabled... im in a minority in my own country...
all this PC namby pambyism does more to exacerbate the cultural and social differences instead of integration we fell like its all about subjugation and seperation... it smacks of PC bollocks and desperation... apartheid by any other name
2007-02-17 09:01:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes i am from an ethnic minority now.being English ,white and hetrosexual living in London
2007-02-17 09:10:40 · answer #10 · answered by GREGNJEN 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋