Have you ever been treated differently because of your 'race'?

Tar.Aldarion · 18-04-2015 06:14PM

I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me -- no matter how dumb my suggestions are.

Galwayguy35 · 18-04-2015 06:23PM

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me -- no matter how dumb my suggestions are.

So you think being white and male is an advantage?

pablomakaveli · 18-04-2015 06:27PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

So you think being white and male is an advantage?

Not when you go to the annual African ladies conference.

Tarzana2 · 18-04-2015 06:27PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

So you think being white and male is an advantage?

Whoosh.

irish son · 18-04-2015 06:28PM

Yeah my father didn't disown me when I came out caucasian.

smurgen · 18-04-2015 06:29PM

Berserker wrote: »

I think you could have handled that a lot better. She probably thinks that Irish people are aggressive, unsympathetic and rude now too.

100%.I was just drunk and tired.I was in the mood to try school some lunatic so I just tore into her and explained that I wouldn't expect a white south African to be sympathetic to the irish anyway.

Galwayguy35 · 18-04-2015 06:29PM

Tarzana2 wrote: »

Whoosh.

Yeah?

Something to say?

irish son · 18-04-2015 06:30PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Yeah?

Something to say?

Its a quote from the Simpsons.

Stojkovic · 18-04-2015 06:36PM

smurgen wrote: »

Was in a group of professional at a work function in Geneva and a south African white woman wouldn't communicate with me cause I was irish.she'd a few drinks and walked over to me in the bar and went on a rant about how the irish were treacherous terrorists that her friend lost an eye in an ira bombing.literally one of the worst people I've met and worst still I rose to the bait.i called her everything under the sun and she was literally frothing at the mouth.

A white South African calling the Irish treacherous terrorists haha !!!!

Most horrible race on the planet.

YFlyer · 18-04-2015 06:53PM

Berserker wrote: »

I think you could have handled that a lot better. She probably thinks that Irish people are aggressive, unsympathetic and rude now too.

Need that Spitting Image clip.

Ghost Buster · 18-04-2015 07:02PM

No but some bitch one stereo typed me based solely on my date of birth and the alignment of the planets at the time.
Its shocking:eek:

18-04-2015 07:03PM

I've been bullied for being English. I was told to go home and get myself bombed in primary school, and I've been called a Brit bi**h more than an couple of times on a night out in Ireland. I know it's only the few though, so I don't let it get to me. Once I tried to book a b&b in Cork and was told they don't take bookings off Brits. Again, isolated cases and most of the time people don't give my nationality a second thought.

On the reception Irish people get compared to British people abroad, I've never been on the receiving end of rudeness or inexplicably lost bookings or whatever.

Berserker · 18-04-2015 07:06PM

Candie wrote: »

On the reception Irish people get compared to British people abroad, I've never been on the receiving end of rudeness or inexplicably lost bookings or whatever.

I find this strange too. I've never had any issues with bookings abroad either. Always been welcomed wherever I travelled.

folamh · 18-04-2015 07:17PM

Some American friends have no issue making jokes about my Irishness. Just stupid stuff, nothing that would indicate that they believe the Irish are racially or genetically inferior etc. At the end of the day I'm glad to be able to walk down the street without people glaring at me with contempt like some do to people of colour.

Eugene Norman · 18-04-2015 07:19PM

Precious flower wrote: »

I'll concede to that, I didn't realise the UN had a slightly different definition. Fair point, they are Caucasians. Those from Pakistan are often singled out by the colour of their skin in comparison to those who are white and speak English, that is why I would consider that racism. However, and I don't want to derail the thread so I'm leaving it at this. Within the Irish context I would see that kind of behaviour as more xenaphobia than racism unless it was a black man attacking a white man or vice versa. Anyway racism or xenophobia or bigotry is bad and only displayed by ignorant and foolish people and that'd the point of this thread.:)

This kind of stuff is just nonsense. Firstly if you believe that race is just a social construct then you can't also limit racism to whatever you think are racial groups because the racist bigot could see himself as belonging to a superior Anglo Saxon "race" and feel superior to the Irish "race". Secondly if you follow this stupidity to its limits the Nazis were not racist since jews and Slavs are white. Or Israeli settlers aren't racist because Arabs are Semites. It's just rubbish.

You can be racist at the ethnic level.

laugh · 18-04-2015 07:22PM

Just a little Samba wrote: »

I live in South Asia for 3-4 months a year, so every time I step outside my door while there pretty much I get treated differently because of my race.

People randomly asking to take pictures with you, restaurants giving you extra special treatment, supermarkets opening a till just so you don't have to queue, taxi's pulling over all the time (instead of ignoring everyone trying to wave them down).

Takes a bit of getting used to.

Where exactly is this? What months won't incinerate a pale freckly celt?

Eugene Norman · 18-04-2015 07:24PM

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me -- no matter how dumb my suggestions are.

Oh stop with the quoting of dumb American identity politics ****. You're Irish, Not just white and plenty of people around the world will have prejudice based on your ethnicity as we can see from this thread. Try singing a Fenian song in east Belfast to see how far your whiteness takes you.

Eugene Norman · 18-04-2015 07:29PM

irish son wrote: »

Its a quote from the Simpsons.

Yellow privilege.

18-04-2015 07:38PM

Eugene Norman wrote: »

Oh stop with the quoting of dumb American identity politics ****. You're Irish, Not just white and plenty of people around the world will have prejudice based on your ethnicity as we can see from this thread. Try singing a Fenian song in east Belfast to see how far your whiteness takes you.

Wow, It was a joke :pac:

Take a chill pill.

One eyed Jack · 18-04-2015 07:58PM

pablomakaveli wrote: »

Not when you go to the annual African ladies conference.

Actually being a white male at the annual African ladies conference, you may be surprised at the rather warm welcome you receive!

Actually that reminds me, heh, y'know that saying about "Once you go black, yada yada"? This one particular black woman thought that highly of herself she was convinced that white men weren't as good in bed as black men...

I have to admit, 'twas one of those times I really, really enjoyed smashing someone's preconceived ideas about people...

*cough*

pauliebdub · 18-04-2015 08:12PM

Only in Northern Ireland, it's a place that contains some seriously vile people.

garra · 18-04-2015 08:13PM

Yes plenty of times, probably on a daily basis.

Worst was in south america, taxi drivers in Bogota and Medellin charged me a LOT more than south american looking people would have had to pay.

And worst still was the taxi driver in Bangkok who took me from airport to a place near Koasan road. Stopped the cab and I paid him over the seat. All settled up he opened his door as if to get out and open the boot for my backpack, and I got out.
I was stretching and I noticed he hadn't got out, and was now pulling away from the kerb.
All I had was my passport and wallet, but thoughtfully the driver didn't stop at the hostel, instead he stopped right outside a police station to make it easy for me to report the crime. Nice touch.

pauliebdub · 18-04-2015 08:22PM

the_syco wrote: »

Over in France, in Nantes, and couldn't find a hotel or B&B to stay two nights, as no-one spoke "english".

Curiously, when I asked if they spoke "Irelande", BIG attitude difference. Got a room easily (after showing Irish passport) for the gang of 6 or so people. Found if asked people spoke Irelande in pubs, got a friendlier response.

I get this a lot in Spain as well, people respond to me better when they realise I'm Irish, there's often a poor perception of English people in Spain.

darkpagandeath · 18-04-2015 08:22PM

Why would White Irish people care what other White Europeans have to say ? Next you will be telling us Doing an Irish accent is Racist.

folamh · 18-04-2015 08:28PM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Why would White Irish people care what other White Europeans have to say ? Next you will be telling us Doing an Irish accent is Racist.

in b4 "it is"

pablomakaveli · 18-04-2015 08:32PM

pauliebdub wrote: »

Only in Northern Ireland, it's a place that contains some seriously vile people.

Funnily enough all the people i've met from a unionist background living in England i've got on quite well with and haven't displayed any bigotry towards me which was a surprise. People from certain parts of Scotland are a lot worse.

allibastor · 18-04-2015 08:34PM

Group of black guys in laois wouldnt let me join a soccer Match cause i was white and they were doing an african league

darkpagandeath · 18-04-2015 08:36PM

folamh wrote: »

in b4 "it is"

I'm not Irish, Have lived a very long time and developed half an accent. Does that mean I'm a closet Racist. :pac:

ardmacha · 18-04-2015 08:39PM

I had to pay 10 times as much in Asia, because of my race.

One eyed Jack · 18-04-2015 08:43PM

allibastor wrote: »

Group of black guys in laois wouldnt let me join a soccer Match cause i was white and they were doing an african league

Need to change your username to alabaster :pac:

Ala... what? Always used crack me up that one

Have you ever been treated differently because of your 'race'?

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