Re: Racism-Which country have you experianced it the most? how to handle it?
thats true but theres some countries more racist then others, take france for example. if a colored person has been living there all there lives, the french people dont see that person has being french because hes not white like them.Originally Posted by Mohamed_Sadiq
Re: Racism-Which country have you experianced it the most? how to handle it?
Oh yes, Italy is very diverse. The blonde hair blue eyed Italians come from up north and are usually Swiss decendants that snuck over the border allong time ago. Or they are Greek decendants. There are allot of blonde hair blue eye Greeks. I kind of wish I wasn't as dark as I amAnd had lighter colored hair....I died it brown one time
just to see what it would be like. Oh well, God made me the way I am and I like it that way
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God be with you.
Re: Racism-Which country have you experianced it the most? how to handle it?
Aslaamu`alaaykum
SubhanaAllaah sister, may Allaah give you Sabr to deal with such people.Ameen
I have seen racism from people with their own races...soo weird like ItalianGuy said..
Racism is something that seperates us from each other, its shocking and scary too SubhanaAllaah ,,people treat each other like animals in some areas only because of there looks or colour ,background etc...
From all races, you get some dark and light and medium skinned people.
Its pathethic how low life these people can get, to even have such pathethic guts to say it to someones face...
They are the people who show no mercy, they have no idea what it makes a person feel from the inside..May Allaah guide these people, as he is the 1 who guides Indeed..
As the Prophet said: "He who does not show mercy to others, will not be shown mercy." [Al-Bukhârî]
Allah (SWT) says in Surat Al-Hujurat, "O Mankind! We have created you from a male and female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know one another. Verily, the most honorable of you in the sight of Allah is he who has most Taqwa among of you. Verily, Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware." Noble Qur'an (49:13)
In surah Al-Room Allah (SWT) says, "And one of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your tongues and colors; most surely there are signs in this for the learned." Noble Qur'an (30:22)
Wa alaaykum Salaam....
Re: Racism-Which country have you experianced it the most? how to handle it?
EVERONE IS RAcIST to different degrees
you might publically express ur racism or keep it to yourself
but everyone has a judgement about a person from where they cum from
most ppl have little racism in them
i'm happy i live in SA wth such a diverse society
Re: Racism-Which country have you experianced it the most? how to handle it?
I dislike racism because it's stupid and dangerous, but honestly I also dislike anti-racism. These are fools too.
Re: Racism-Which country have you experianced it the most? how to handle it?
So true. As an example my own family came to this country and always said "Ahmedeekans" have no culture, What is their culture?...hamburgers and hotdogs?
I notice that anyone who comes to the US is like that. They are prejudice against an entire country, BUT...on the other hand, you see my Uppa (father-in-law) who is from India and if he meets someone from a different part of India, they don't like each other....like "interacism" or something?......My grandparents were the same way.
Re: Racism-Which country have you experianced it the most? how to handle it?
and home-delivery pizzas? (I wonder if the pizzas in Italy taste differently than pizzas from Domino's, Pizza Hut, Shakeys?So true. As an example my own family came to this country and always said "Ahmedeekans" have no culture, What is their culture?...hamburgers and hotdogs?
Re: Racism-Which country have you experianced it the most? how to handle it?
Never go to Italy and eat the pizza.....if you do, you will never eat the crap here in US that some call pizza
Do you really eat that stuff? I had Sbarro once.....ewwww.
Our family grew up with the Sbarros. Some of them still live in east north port NY. We also grew up with the Carrabas. They started a 1 small resturaunt and now have a bunch of chains.
Re: Racism-Which country have you experianced it the most? how to handle it?
Yeah.. and I am a pasta lover..... my mum is not an ITalian but her spaghetti bolognese is waaaaay better than those franchised restaurants...Never go to Italy and eat the pizza.....if you do, you will never eat the crap here in US that some call pizza
Do you really eat that stuff?
Re: Racism-Which country have you experianced it the most? how to handle it?
Try real Italian food like, Giant stuffed chilis and eggplant parmesanThe chilis will singe your tounge, but after your numb....it's sooooo good!
I don't get to eat much Italian anymore
Re: Racism-Which country have you experianced it the most? how to handle it?
Racism in Buffalo, NY. Racism in UK. Now some idiotic Francophones in Quebec, Canada are proposing to ban Niqab. I hope the sane Ontarians maintain their sanity.
Re: Racism-Which country have you experianced it the most? how to handle it?
So ... I am luckier... my mum cooks Italian, Indian, Chinese, Malaysian, Thai etc....Try real Italian food like, Giant stuffed chilis and eggplant parmesan
I don't get to eat much Italian anymore
Re: Racism-Which country have you experianced it the most? how to handle it?
Si` Senior, you are lucky one! Mia madre cooks allot of Italian of course. My wife doesn't know how to cook Italian...she tried once...So ... I am luckier... my mum cooks Italian, Indian, Chinese, Malaysian, Thai etc.....
It's ok, I am more used to Indian food now anyway
Re: Racism-Which country have you experianced it the most? how to handle it?
Interesting article I read today on racism in America. Soon, it may be whites experiencing racism as they will be in a (very large) minority by 2050:
Two competing narratives dominate our debate about the ongoing ethnic and demographic transformation of America. The first holds that non-European immigrants — O.K., let's be honest, Mexicans — will rip apart the nation's social fabric. The second has it that the diversity of younger generations of Americans will inevitably lead to a more integrated, postracial era.
But both of these narratives are off the mark. With some minor differences, today's immigrants are assimilating into U.S. society in ways not terribly unlike those of millions before them. At the same time, it's likely that decades from now, Americans will still invest a lot of meaning in group distinctions.
The most profound changes in American race relations, however, will revolve around the other side of the equation: native-born white Americans. As much as Americans pride themselves on the notion that their national identity is premised on a set of ideals rather than a single race, ethnicity or religion, we all know that for most of our history, white supremacy was the law of the land. In every naturalization act from 1790 to 1952, Congress included language stating that the aspiring citizen should be a "white person." And not surprisingly, despite the extraordinary progress of the past 50 years, the sense of white proprietorship — "this is our country and our culture" — still has not been completely eradicated. Even though we now have an African-American President, we still tend to treat minorities as parts and whites as representatives of the whole. This, along with the luxury of rarely feeling obliged to think self-consciously about one's racial background, has been one of the perks of belonging to the demographic majority.
But according to the Census Bureau, by 2050 whites will be a minority group in the U.S. How the current majority reacts to its incipient minority status is the most crucial sociodemographic issue facing the country in the decade to come.
The most obvious impact will be political. If California's demographic transformation is any indication — Anglos dropped below 50% of the population there in 2000 — whites elsewhere may increasingly develop a stronger consciousness of their political interests as a group. In 1996, California's white voters overwhelmingly supported Proposition 209, a ballot initiative that sought to eliminate state-sponsored affirmative action, because many of those voters felt that the playing field had begun to tilt against them. That decade, California also passed two other ethnically charged ballot measures, against illegal immigration and bilingual education. It's difficult not to conclude that these initiatives were part of a white backlash against the state's ethnic transformation. However, the very demographic trend that inspired those ballot initiatives has ensured that there haven't been any racially charged propositions since. With so-called minorities outnumbering whites, mainstream politicians have been reluctant to endorse any initiative that would invite a backlash from nonwhites.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/pa...971119,00.html
Re: Racism-Which country have you experianced it the most? how to handle it?
To be frank, racism exists in every corner of the planet. In Turkey, a lot of Turks have convinced themselves that they are the "least racist people in the world" or that "racism does not exist in Turkish culture", which can't be further from the truth. Very annoying statement because it's completely untrue. It may have been true that we were less racist during the Ottoman period, but now we are a pretty racist and exclusivist bunch.
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