The Event: How Racist are you?

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Channel 4, Thursday 29th October, 10:00 PM

Are we all more racist than we realise or would like to admit?

For this Channel 4 documentary Jane Elliott, a controversial former schoolteacher from Ohio, is recreating the shocking exercise she used forty years ago to teach her nine-year-old pupils about prejudice.

Elliott is asking thirty adult British volunteers - men and women of different ages and backgrounds - to experience inequality based on their eye colour to show how susceptible we can all be to bigotry, and what it feels like to be on the other side of arbitrary discrimination.

Does Elliott's exercise still have something to teach us four decades on and in a different country? Presented by Krishnan Guru-Murthy, the exercise is observed throughout by two expert psychologists, Prof Dominic Abrams and Dr Funké Baffour, who will be unpicking the behaviour on display.

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OurIslamic said:
Racism is bad....
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That is true. But sadly all humans are racist or prejudiced. The cure is for each of us to recognize and admit we have this fault and work to keep us from acting unfairly or with bigotry.

Fighting the Greater Jihad is the most difficult and the longest battle we will face daily. May Alaah(swt) grant all of us the strength and wisdom to see and recognize the enemy that lives within each of us. May he help us in our struggle to defeat our inner enemy.
 
Thanks for that!

I will definitely be watching and look forward to discussing it. I definitely feel that racism is still a major problem within our society. There are so many incidents of "casual" racism amongst youths and adults nowadays, in the office, in schools, etc, that people just have kind of accepted it as the normal way to be.
 
This might sound odd, but Asians from the Indian subcontinent are quite racist themselves. They literally slander each other based on variations on skin pigmentation. A light skin vs dark skin battle, and I'm talking about people who are ethnically the same!

Crazy stuff. :hmm:
 
Racism is far from healthy but I find muslims to be very selective on race when it comes to marriage. I doubt many here would marry a white person born in the UK.
 
Blackpool said:
Racism is far from healthy but I find muslims to be very selective on race when it comes to marriage. I doubt many here would marry a white person born in the UK.
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I doubt if you see it as such, but that is a racist statement.

More than a few of the Muslims on this forum are white people born in the UK. I believe you will find that for most of the Muslim members piety of a future spouse is more important than race.

However, that does not mean any of us do not have prejudiced or racist bias. To some extent we all do, even you. The question is do we control our prejudices or do they control us.
 
M.B said:
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it was soo funny just watched that it was amazing.


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Did I miss a link to of a video or something???

Oh, I see you are talking about the experiment reported on the first page. I agree it is funny, but it is very sad when we realise people are like that. All people, not jus the ones in the experiment.
 
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Woodrow said:
Did I miss a link to of a video or something???
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It was on Channel 4 in the UK and it finished 20 minutes ago.

Here is a link to it on the Channel 4 website. It may or may not be possible to view it outside the UK, I'm not sure.

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Blackpool said:
Racism is far from healthy but I find muslims to be very selective on race when it comes to marriage. I doubt many here would marry a white person born in the UK.
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For the word 'Muslims' substitute 'Indo-Pakistani Asians' and it's true that certain members of that ethnic group are prejudiced against people outside that ethnic group. Heck, even Indians and Pakistanis hate each other.

I personally am colour-blind to any potential wife's ethnicity so long as she can fluently speak a language we share in common and is not a dumbass.
 
Blackpool said:
Racism is far from healthy but I find muslims to be very selective on race when it comes to marriage. I doubt many here would marry a white person born in the UK.
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lol this is funny, you say Muslims are selective and wudnt marry whites, yet when i go to EDL forums and many other English forums they keep saying how they shouldnt let their WHITE DAUGHTERS marry the Muslims cause the Muslims haveeeeeeeeeee a plot to take white women and breed with them!

and just for the record, two of my friends who are gulf arabs are the sons of WHITE mothers, one welsh, and one scottish.
 
Blackpool said:
Racism is far from healthy but I find muslims to be very selective on race when it comes to marriage. I doubt many here would marry a white person born in the UK.
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Not really. I would only marry a Muslim lady for obvious reasons. Race does not matter to me. I know from my cultural background they would prefer me to marry a women who is Asian but that is because she would be more familiar with our customs.

My cousin is married to a white women....believe it or not she wears the Burka.
 
Blackpool said:
Racism is far from healthy but I find muslims to be very selective on race when it comes to marriage. I doubt many here would marry a white person born in the UK.
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they are very few people-Muslim or not, Asian or not-who dont let different cultres marry into thier family.
i have 2 neighbors both non-Muslim...one was Greek the other Yugoslavian. he loved her, she loved him, but they were forced to break up due to their cultural differences.
 
I wish this was tried out on the BNP members when they were kids, may have lead to them being a bit less racist.

I was very surprised to hear that school teacher saying she was shocked to see pink skin when a black kid fell over and scraped her skin. She was expecting to see black skin.. erm why does it even matter? ethnic minorities are not aliens!

Racism is very subtle in Britain, there have been SO many occasions where i would be in a line holding some clothes or food (ready to pay for it) and a person would just walk straight in front of you. I obviously give them a look and they say "oh sorry were you in the line".. Well duh, if a person is standing with shopping in a line you would think they were in the line. I'm probs reading to much into it but i felt they thought i was some confused non-english speaking person standing around for no reason.
 
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some Arabs to me are very racist but every human being has a bit of racism in them some more than others
 
If you are Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi etc, and think England is racist, I urge you to try working in the middle east for a little while.

You'll want to jump back to Britain in a hurry!
 
Raphael said:
If you are Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi etc, and think England is racist, I urge you to try working in the middle east for a little while.

You'll want to jump back to Britain in a hurry!
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True. Racism here in Britain is a little more discrete whereas in the Middle East, I guess they tend to stare at you if you are different. Is that right?
 
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