I am almost thirty and have noticed that people in their fifties and sixties are pretty much all racist and homophobic.
I am not suggesting they go out bashing people or shout abuse because the people I work with don't but at the same time they are not tolerant of anyone 'different'.
I work with a lot of people this age and have found them all to be frighteningly similar.
Can anyone else back me up on this? What can we do?!
2007-04-04 23:39:44 · 23 answers · asked by lellylurve 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Excuse me to the person that accused me of stereotyping. I am not stereotyping, I am merely saying that the people I know feel this way! Not saying all 50-60 year olds are the same. Get your facts right.
2007-04-05 00:01:42 · update #1
A agree, and the only thing I can say is that acceptance needs to be taught at a young age. I teach kindergarten. Yesterday we had a black little boy with big thick dreadlocks come into our classroom. Now where I live, isnt extremely multicultural but we do have a few African American, Mexican, Chinese, etc... First they wanted to know if he was a boy/girl. Then they "noticed" that his skin was another color. And then they wanted to know how he got his hair like "that". All of their questions were answered calmly and without any discrimination. The children quickly accepted him and they all wanted to play with the "new kid." They are enjoying his enthusiasm and creative ideas. Now, if my coworker and I shared different views, we could have made the scene a terrible one. All of the children might have rejected him if our views were different. I can't imagine being a child and having to live through that discrimination ever. So, I believe as long as tolerance and acceptance is taught young, that our future generations will be accepting of all types of people.
2007-04-04 23:50:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
In a democracy people are allowed to have their own thoughts and opinions, (Although the current government is trying to restrict this)
You were brought up through a schooling system that was mixed race and taught tolerance hence your opinion on the issue.
We ALL have opinions but some people (myself included) make them based on their own judgement and NOT on the way they have been brainwashed. I guess the people you are talking about just want this country to become great again as they remember the days when it wasn't over run with immigrants and was a major force in the world.....In those days we had a NHS that worked and the BBC was the best t.v in the world (Before the p.c brigade of your generation ruined it).
I mean people now have 'partners' (What's that all about??) instead of boyfriends or girlfriends so we don't embarrass the homosexuals. I have no problem with them I have many homosexual friends and even they think it is stupid to say partner instead of boyfriend!
So in answer to your question...There is Nothing YOU or anybody else can do about it as it is still (For now) a free country and we can all live by our own standards and beliefs without having to become sheep for the few who want to brainwash us and tell us what we can and cannot think!!!
2007-04-04 23:56:55 · answer #2 · answered by kbw 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Isn't it amazing how you mention that - people in their 50's & 60's...children of the 60's, no less, ganja, acid and all the long-haired camp dears called Jason or Robert 'whoopie-ing' at the 1967 homosexual act - they couldn't lose then! So why are the oldies sneering now, you ask - isn't it something to do with age or something else? Don't we all automatically turn on the intolerant button in our mid fifties...with ample reason to become so (due to society's contempt), like being treated like people 20 years older - yes...Brits hate the old! And their defence becomes offence, perhaps?
2007-04-05 01:08:53 · answer #3 · answered by nativexile 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i know a lot of older folk like that. all i can say maybe is that back in their day the world was a much bigger place and people didn't have the same access to different cultures as they do now. from a young age i have watched films and television shows that show me gay people and non white people as human beings. so as a young adult i am not intimidated or scared of people that are different to me as they are now very familiar. whereas my mother was brought up in a small all white catholic community where open homosexuality was not an option and black people were a myth. she was never exposed to anything different to that.so i think that's stayed with her definitely. i know she's a good person and i don't think her racism or homophobia is malevolent. it's just fear of the unknown that she's been conditioned to have from a very young age.
2007-04-05 00:28:55 · answer #4 · answered by spiralling 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They have been raised in a distinctive time with distinctive social rules. They lived at an age while segregation replaced into the norm and that different races have been considered uneducated and inferior. women did no longer have expert careers, there have been few muslims in our u . s . a . and human beings merely did no longer pop out of the closet with their sexual alternatives. some human beings have replaced and sense delicate with how modern society is yet others are so shaped by ability of their childhood perspectives that they won't be able to settle for variations.
2016-11-07 06:47:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What can we do? Well, on the racism, I have no idea, but I used to work with an extremely homophobic colleague (came from the sticks) who moved to Brighton (duh) and we were all constantly aggravated by his opinions. So, we took him to the pub or out for meals with some of our gay friends (I'm straight by the way) for a few months. We then told him they were gay. Changed his attitude instantly. As for the older generation, my father included, was both racist and homophobic; it seemed so ingrained it seemed impossible to change. Some people just seem hardwired to hate anyone different from their own peer groups, and act like pack animals.
2007-04-04 23:53:40 · answer #6 · answered by nert 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, your experience does not ring true for me. The people you are describing are those that grew up in the Sixties and really pushed the boundaries of what had been considered to be appropriate behaviour. In the UK at least we have them to thank for many of the freedoms we have now. I think you need to get out more and see people for who and what they are.
2007-04-05 03:16:07 · answer #7 · answered by LillyB 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sorry but I don't agree.
Your comments are generalisations based on the people that you work with.
Being racist and homophobic is not confined to people in the 50-60 year age group.There are lots of people in your age group that are also racist and homophobic.
Unfortunately there are lots of people, regardless of age ,who will still think that being racist and homophobic is correct.All that we can do is try and educate them!
2007-04-05 00:06:48 · answer #8 · answered by the gunners 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
What you're describing is stereotyping and by limiting it to the 50's and 60's age group is stereotyping on your part.
2007-04-04 23:55:00 · answer #9 · answered by Debra D 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i don't really care if others are racists or homophobic, because there's nothing i can do to change them. as long as i know im not a racist or homophobic.
nothing u can do. u can start by not being a racist or homophobic yourself and see if more will follow.
2007-04-05 00:13:09 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋