Black people Racism in Workplace in Ireland

The problem is that if you go looking for racism, you'll find a while host of examples from your own life that could be interpreted as being racist. When, in fact, those examples may be there for any number of other reasons, from the manner of your behavior, your decisions, etc. or simply that the other person is a dick.

For Black people, the idea of racism is part of their overall culture. The expectation that racism is there all the time... and so confirmation bias exists strongly for them. For White people in a western nation, racism is unlikely to be a consideration, so we expect to find other reasons for what happens to us. For myself, from living in Asia, I can daily find examples of racism if I want to find it. Perception is key.

Now, that's not to say that actual racism doesn't occur. It does.. it's a part of human behavior. Tribalism. Group think, and the perspective relating to outsiders. But it's not something exclusive to white people, and there's a tendency to ignore the racist beliefs of other racial groups, as if they're suddenly immune to displaying such motivations or attitudes.

Racism is always going to be around. The point is to minimize the effects of it. We have a host of laws, and social rules to minimize the impact of individual racism. We have had decades of social conditioning to encourage us to avoid applying racist attitudes to others. It's not perfect, but nothing ever is. The interesting thing though, is how rare it is. Look outside of Europe, and there's little consideration about racism. Little pressure on people not to enact or display it. Live in Africa, Asia, or whatever, and as a white person, you will experience being on the receiving end of racism... and there's little to no expectation for it to stop, or change. It's only in western nations that there's some kind of expectation that it'll be removed entirely from our society.

And how will it be removed? Education? We already have that. Laws? We already have them. I hear a lot about stopping racism, but extremely little on the details of how to stop it. Also little consideration that migrants coming from abroad, will be bringing their own brand of racism.. and no expectation that they will have to adapt.

Just to add... I have found that many black people push their race into every situation. Different/extreme behaviors, attitudes, appearance, etc.. all designed to attract attention (and be obviously different from others), but it's an attention that is strongly connected with the idea of being "black", and should someone react in an unfavorable manner, the accusation of racism is rolled out. If you go looking for reactions from others... don't be shocked when you get a variety of negative ones. The problem being that there's a design in place to link it to race.. as opposed to the individuals choices/behaviors.