Racism

[FF68]

On a scale of 1 to 10...how racist are you?
This is not just about skin colour. The topic includes ethnicity/culture etc.
Be honest.

I'll admit to being a 7.
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[MarJay]

There is a natural propensity in the human condition to like people within your own circle. Its the way that you didn't get cracked over the head with a wooden club by your tribes enemies back in the stone age. However, human society has progressed beyond that, and on that basis I use my intellect to rise above it. I'm aware of the natural human reactions, and am able to reject it by understanding.

So yeah, I'm not a f*cking caveman.
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[Hetzer]

I'm a culturalist and race has nothing to do with it innately.
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[hellkat]

I'm probably about a 5 nowadays.

When I lived in NZ, I was probably a 9.95 towards non-NZers* , i.e. not Maoris, cos a lot of them are extremely v.dishy and play rugby with admirable limbs
*(although I did once marry a semi-Samoan )

Then I came to London and quickly realised I needed to rethink that personal strategy, not only because London=multicultural like I had never encountered before, but also because I discovered that when out of their natural environment, even some NZers are a really very provincial and unpleasant breed.

So eventually I graduated down to maybe a 7, and even down to about 2 or 3 for a while

... but lately due to the multitudinous invasion of all these boaty J.Foreigners, I feel it slowly creeping back up.

Bottom line: I don't care what race someone is, as long as they are nice to me - because I am nice to them, until they give me a reason not to be.

Hence its conditional upon how I am treated.


But then, I am like that with everyone.

edit: changed from 4 to 5 due to remembering I hate some white people too.
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[Feasty]

I couldn't possibly say... maybe a steady 6 and rising!

However I do have my reasons.
1st reason: I'm partially deaf and wear hearing aids, so it's really important to me I can understand what the other person is saying for good communication. A thick Middle Eastern accent is very difficult to understand, but then so is a thick Liverpudlian (I mean the accent, honest). My favourite accent and the one I find easier to understand is the Welsh.
But in a work environment when I'm interviewing for a position in my team, I'm certainly not supposed to be biased against accents or race. Yet why would I employ someone I wouldn't be able to understand? Does that make me racist? Or 'accentist'?

2nd reason: Recently I sold my caravan on Fb, it was a bit of a steal of a price and I got loads of messages asking to take it. I don't like to think of myself of racist and so stuck to first come, first served.
This happened to be a Romanian, not great English, he turned up in a clapped out little car and spent the next 3 hrs pointing out the tiniest faults and trying to get me to reduce the price, it was exhausting! By this point I'd already had several promises from local people saying they would definitely take it for the asking price that day, so I insisted I wasn't budging on the price.
Eventually he agreed and left a deposit saying he'd pick it up in the next few days. After not hearing anything, and bearing in mind this caravan is on my drive blocking easy access. I chased him up and he told me he just has to buy the car to be able to tow it - the first time he mentioned he didn't have a flipping tow car!!
3 weeks later he eventually turned up in a 'mates car' because the car he'd bought needed work on it.

Now it shouldn't, but of course experiences like this just makes you not want to deal with people from other cultures. Especially when they don't make an effort to fit in to yours.

Further point, I did an MOT check on his car reg after they left and whilst it did have a current MOT the car was sorn - strangely I wasn't surprised.
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[A100man]

Any race/creed that isolates itself and/or declares they wish to change our (British) way of life, laws etc.. from the inside does not garner my respect or approval.

By and large though I try not to stereotype and treat each person as an individual. I'm finding this harder though.

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[lingeringstin...]

It's a bit more complicated than race usually. Think I'm terms of "tribal" instead. It's perfectly natural for people to want to or feel like they belong to a tribe. It's inbuilt in human nature.

An example would be Roman military. They were made up of all sorts but they were all "Romans" by default. I often think people mistake being tribal for being "racist".

It's not racist to want to belong to a tribe, but most "tribes" will be made up of similar folk. For instance being Scottish is basically tribal but shoehorning an absurd percentage of black people into every episode of Vera is basically pushing a racist agenda.

[Easy-X]

If you watch something romantic like It Ain't Half Hot Mum you can picture the concept of "British" to encompass not only English/Scottish/Welsh/Irish but also fervent believers in the cause. Back then someone born Indian truly could become British because they wanted the world to be a better place.

Now "British" is no more than a convenient piece of paper, like a gym membership.
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