Why does everyone look down upon Africans?

Question

I am a Black-African British girl and I feel that people till don't see African people as equal. But I don't understand, why?

I AM SO PROUD OF COMING FROM AFRICA IN PATICULAR GHANA WHOOO!

We have great food, culture, music, clothes and people but I feel like people still think Africans are inferior!

Come on guys slavery has passed.

What are your views?
Does anybody feel the same as moi?

Answer 1

I dont know. But that has never been my problem.

I have no hate towards any race.

Answer 2

The only people who can look down on you are a lot taller.But,as to slavery,it still exists today,kids and women working in sweatshops for a pittance,slavery is just a matter of unscrupulous business men exploiting others,every race on Earth has been guilty of this since time began.Most modern day cases of it are being committed by their own kind on each other.As an African woman ,all you have to look at, to be proud ,is the past history of Africa ,there is always an equal amount of good to counteract the bad in any culture or race.NUBIA being a case in point,a great race and culture,there were Nubian slaves in Egypt, but, there was also a Nubian pharaoh. A MERRY XMAS TO YOU.

Answer 3

My opinion is you have a problem seeing yourself as an equal. It is how you see yourself that may be getting in the way of your being comfortable with the people you meet in your life.

Your statement reminds me of comments made in the press in the US about 20 years ago that started a riot locally. A fight between a woman and a man occurred, both had been drinking. The man hit the woman, the woman stabbed the man. He went home, went to bed and bled to death overnight. The police ruled the death an accidental death, since the idiot could have gotten help at anytime (this before the laws changed about domestic violence of course, now both would have been jailed).

Students from the college, also from his country, rioted saying it was because he was from some small African country that the police weren't doing anything to the woman so they were discriminating against him. The problem was the woman who stabbed him, well, it turns out she was from the same small country. How was that discriminatory against his "African heritage"? The entire thing fizzled pretty fast after that fact was disclosed. A lot of people went back to their dorms with egg on their faces that day. Including the press who stirred the mess up in the first place. Before you cry discrimination, make sure your not seeing a reflection of yourself in the mirror.

The problem is, if you think you are different, then that is half the problem. Too much pride sets you apart in your own mind. Get down off your pedestal and join the rest of us mere mortals.

Here in the South we have a saying "American by birth, Southern by the Grace of God". We do however, say it with tongue and cheek. That being said, I'm sure some of my ancestors did something worth doing or remembering, other than getting a famous dog food named after them, I'm just not sure what. I, however am just living my life. Start living life as a person first, an African second. You'll find it much easier to fit in and you'll see much less discrimination. Then when you do run smack into discrimination, you'll be better able to handle it by either ignoring it or better yet, understanding it has nothing to do with you and everything to do with the other persons problems. Not yours.

Answer 4

I recognize racism still exists, but to say "everyone"? Come on.. I am not racist at all. In fact, yesterday I found a black woman being racist towards a black young employee of mine.

The black woman was trying to return 3 gloves without a receipt. The employee, a young black girl, had to call me, a manager, to take care of it. The register prompted that she would have to receive store tender in the mail because she paid cash and had no receipt and the customer did not want this. The reason we do this is bc many times customers just pick gloves off the floor and try to return them, thus, stealing. I had to come and override the system to give her store credit back, not in the form of mail tender.

Then, a white woman came, was returning gloves with a receipt, and the black employee did not give her a problem because she HAD the receipt. The black woman then called this sweet young employee "a piece of white black trash". She spent an hour in the stockroom crying. Horrific.

I just wanted to show you an example of this "reverse racism" or whatever you want to call it.

Racism is horrible and people need to stop going on ego trips thinking they are better than everyone else.

Answer 5

Are you talking about Africans in general or black people in general? Could be because of all the stuff going on with the identity theft and people being robbed online from all the Africans lately! Just like with 9/11. After that, everyone was looking at Arab's sideways because after that happened, they were ALL terrorists in people's eyes. Anytime something horrible happens, they blame everyone within that race. Could be something like that. It's really sad!

Answer 6

Dont take it personal. There are people in this world that are so miserable with their life. How do you know they feel the way you just described. This is not a happy world, and believe it or not everybody feels discriminated everyonce in a while, and it doesn't have anything to do with color, race, money... This are unhappy miserable people that are so bitter they just want to get spill their posinous mixed emotions to whoever is willing to give them the time a day. Don't let them catch you!

Answer 7

I am not sure that anyone really looks down on Africans. I don't at least. You and I are still people with feelings and emotions, no reason to look down on you for being no different then me. I think people look down on the country more then anything. Your people should not be living in poverty, not saying you do, but hopefully you see my point.

Answer 8

Because most people only know about Africa what the media shows them and Africa is always portrayed in a negative way so that people formulate negative opinions about the continent, countries and it's people.

Answer 9

I do not look down on Africans. You actually came from Africa. What I have a problem with is those who in the US who were born & bred here & demand to be called African-American. I'm white but I don't demand to be called Blank-American (wherever my anscestors came from) They don't even embrace the true African Cultures. I feel that a lot of the black youth in the US do everything they can to not fit into society that it causes others to look down upon them. They choose to talk uneducated, they choose to dress with their pants hanging down on their thighs, etc. I realize that slavery has passed, but there are many black Americans that feel that everything is owed to them. I know many black people that are very well educated & hold down jobs & everything. I tend to take each person individually but it's hard sometimes when all you hear is about black on black shootings, etc.

Answer 10

quite honestly, the reason people still look down on africans is simply because all they see is the media asking them for money to help feed people in africa. sure, its samrt to help our own, but evenually we get labeled as beggars, almost worse than a college student. plus, with the world mostly westernized, except for some places, people tend to think that if isn't like that, then it isn't well done, uncivilized, slow, or... inferior. There is a chance that maybe they need time to understand, and I'm wrong. I kinda feel your pain... It's all your choice.

Answer 11

Anyone with a brain should be able to realize that immigrants from Africa, and Africans in general, do very well when they move to different countries.

I think you're getting an 'inferior' vibe from people who don't realize the devastation and turmoil that the countries within Africa have had to deal with since european occupation, so its impossible for them to see the gains and improvements both there and with immigrants here.

Never be ashamed of your heritage, its part of who you are today, in my little mind I try to say that if I am ashamed of my past there must be something I am ashamed of with my present.