Majority people don't know the discrimination?

Question

I had a discussion if majority people don't know the discrimination. I think minority people much more know about the discrimination because if you were in the mjority group, it don't bother you so you don't really see and think about the discrimination. When majority people say "we do know about discrimination", I get offended because I don't think they do know about it. It's not thier fault for them to not know about it because they are majority and they don't have to care about it.

I'm Japanese and when I was in Japan, I was majority but did know discrimination exists but it of course didn't bother me because I was majority. It was like that I know there are discriminations but it's not my problem or anything. So I didn't know about discrimination truely but I would say that I do know about discrimination when someone ask me if I do.

So what I think is until you become minority, you don't know about discrimination.

Answer 1

Everyone had been discriminated against at one point in time because no matter how much we have in common, we are all still different from each other. It is a matter of laziness and disconcern for others when we take the easy way out and are not nice to each other. You really have to decide when it's appropriate to be concerned, and when you just have to let people be what ever they are. It takes patience and time to get acclimated to your surroundings and a new culture. It is also difficult when the spoken language is different from the text book language. Just give yourself some time to get used to things so that you can understand better. Not everyone is trying to be mean to you, it's difficult to tell when people are joking sometimes.

Answer 2

But what constitutes a minority? I worked at a fast-food place once, and I was the only white person of staff most shifts and most of our customers were black. In that case, I was clearly a minority, though thankfully I wasn't discriminated against by my employer.

The customers, on the other hand, gave me a pretty good idea of what it might be like by the way they reacted to seeing a "white kid" in the drive through. A few seemed outright offended and made completely unnecessary comments about me. So I think it's fair to say that I know about it from first-hand experience. People may know more about discrimination than you think.

Answer 3

being a certain race is not the only form of discrimination. anything from your sexuality to a person's size. even not being what society thinks as beautiful is discrimination. so lots of people understand it as they have experienced it one way or another