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white privilege
*Jamal*:
--- Quote from: Overseer on December 10, 2004, 06:19:14 AM ---
when i stayed in germany on a school trip the indian kids would get treated funny by germans... and when we wandering around the city centre a ginger kid got harassed by an old man with a walking stick just for being a red head.. LOL!
the only black person we saw while over there was a complete nutter and kept shouting "mc hammer" at us.. and yeah he did have parachute pants on.. no lie..
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I believe you because once I saw across the street yelling at two little kids, saying "Foreigners out of our country". These kids were like 8 years old, walking home from school, and just happened to walk past this lady. Fucked up shit. I heard/saw "Foreigners out" all the time while there.
7even:
You have to consider we have an enormous number of immigrants/foreigners. To be honest I doubt English people would behave differently if they had 10% turks in their country.
America is a tottally different story for obvious reasons.
*Jamal*:
--- Quote from: 7even the Harbinger on December 10, 2004, 06:28:31 AM ---You have to consider we have an enormous number of immigrants/foreigners. To be honest I doubt English people would behave differently if they had 10% turks in their country.
America is tottally different story for obvious reasons.
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Yeah I know, racism and anti-immigrant feelings exist everywhere, but my point was that in Germany people were actually denied jobs because of their race. German employers were willing to offer a less-qualified German the job over a foreigner who was more qualified.
In America, racism obviously does exist as well, but even with this great diversity, people being denied jobs because of their race is not that common. Soon after 9/11, this kinda changed for Middle Eastern people, but I'm assuming this was an issue in Europe as well.
7even:
--- Quote from: *Jamal* on December 10, 2004, 06:30:38 AM ---
--- Quote from: 7even the Harbinger on December 10, 2004, 06:28:31 AM ---You have to consider we have an enormous number of immigrants/foreigners. To be honest I doubt English people would behave differently if they had 10% turks in their country.
America is tottally different story for obvious reasons.
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Yeah I know, racism and anti-immigrant feelings exist everywhere, but my point was that in Germany people were actually denied jobs because of their race. German employers were willing to offer a less-qualified German the job over a foreigner who was more qualified.
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Well there's of course absolutely nothing you can say to defend this.
Good thing my sister-in-law has made it as a doctor here.
Don Seer:
actually 7even england is very different.. due to the massive amount of countries we've had colonies in etc we have especially strong west indies / carribean and (east) indian connections
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