Lord Brar

Not trying to stir a controversial topic but I am just curious that how much does the race of the person matters to you? How many times have you faced it?

Freakonomics, Blink and Influence have all proved that racist biases exist -- There's no denying that. There are so many times when I see a sudden change in people's behavior when they know that I am an Indian. May I thank people like Barack Obama and John Kerry for it?

Though it has happened to me so many times that I've learnt how to ignore it and the person. It's easier to cut ties with that person because if a person doesn't respect you for who you are, there's no use in trying to change him or her.

And why am I writing it out? Yesterday, I saw the same change in a person I respected a lot and that hurt me real bad. And I really had to vent it out.

Anyway now I have it off my head. Care to share your experiences?

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Bandit

Hell, I'm not. It'd be kinda hard for me to be. My Mom is white, my Dad is black, and I've got German, Irish, British, little Jewish, African American, Cherokee Native American and maybe a few others.

All people were created equally.

Just my $.02

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JamesH

Damn Brar, you're Indian? Fucking outsourced, non-English speaking piece of crap! Let me guess, you make all your money writing content for $.0005 a word and also enjoy doing manual link submissions? Damn I lost all respect for you.

Just kidding man. However racism is a big thing where I live. I deal with it all the time, and sometimes it can be funny. Sometimes its directed towards me, others its not (I'm white by the way). And one more question, is that really you in the avatar? Because it looks a lot like Ben Affleck.

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Jay

I've always thought Brar's avatar looked like Steve Carrell with a tan. Completely serious, thought it might be a shot from The Office or something.

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micfire

What? There's other races than white?

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Lord Brar

Oh and you forgot one more thing -- Instructing old Ladies in the middle of the night on how to open up Microsoft Paint on their Dell Desktops.

But hey, are you going to believe that Indians are actually more racist themselves? I live in the tourism capital of India -- Jaipur. We get so many foreign tourists here but still if you are white, you cannot enter some temples. Not all but some. And if you do by mistake, the temple priests will do rituals to purify the temple.

Yup that's me in the AV ( Flickr: Photos from Lord Brar ) Thanks for the comments. Actually, I am a Punjabi and Punjabis are supposed to be of European decent.

It is actually the way I speak and look that quite a few people don't initially think I am from India. And sometimes that is actually a bad thing for me like for example the Golf Club that I am a member at actually 'investigated' if I am not hiding my nationality to pay lesser membership fees.

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Deliguy

My little rant on the topic
There are whites and there are white trash. blacks and n*ggers, mexicans and sp!cks. Whites, blacks and mexicans are cool in my book. The others IMO do nothing but hurt their races stance in society and perpetuate the social problems. Each individual should get what they put into society.

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geekcognito

In a strange twist on the subject...

Try being a white guy from the Southeastern US with a southern accent.

People just assume you're racist. And that you bone your sister.

It sucks because isn't that a form racism in and of itself? Or is there no such thing as racism against white people?

And I don't even have a sister!

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Ben

Amen, brother. Only respect those who show you the same.

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Deliguy

What kind of bothers me is the reverse racism.
If your not a minority, you're pretty boned when trying to go to college, get a competitive job, start a business. But thats not what bugs me, its when you question it, people always bring up the whole "some ancestor with the same skin color as you, did something to an ancestor who has the same skin color as me." When the reality is, there isn't a single race that came to the united states that DIDN'T get completely screwed over (irish, italians, europeans included). In fact of all the bickering, the one group there seems to be the least backlash from is the chinese, when in reality they had it MUCH MUCH worse than everyone else. Slavery was NOTHING compared to what the united states did to the Chinese.
We literally had concentration camps for them. Yet, nothing from the media, where are their casinos and their scholarship programs?

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Be a woman for a day, and a blonde one at that. You get judged on everything before you get a chance to prove anything.

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Oh, and another thing (yep, I'm just pissy tonight)...

it's heinous if someone mentions the word "fat" in regards to someone else, but it's just a-ok for everyone to call thin women "skinny bitch" and so one....just jokingly of course.

Oprah wants us all to embrace our body shape. Love the plus size look. But bitch and moan about smaller sizes. Yeah right Oprah.

Ben

Stupid blonde, she thinks she is in a thread about sexism...

Haha, jk

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Deliguy

Definitely good point. Whenever speaking derogatory about a woman it's always something physical. Even the good looking ones are simply whores.

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