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So I'm going to go straight to a ~~horrible~~ sad question:

The area you live in - who have you seen people be casually racist against?

An example, I'm in Melbourne Australia and the most obvious I have noticed is; Aboriginals, Pakistani, Asians (mostly Chinese directed), Middle-Eastern (this seems to be general racism?) and of course Asylum Seekers.

Edited 2014-03-08 01:00 (UTC)

My state has had lot of Somali immigrants and while a lot of communities have been really awesome opening up to the newcomers there has also been a lot of casual racism thrown their way.

Honestly? Pretty much everyone. Locals bitch on immigrants, immigrants bitch on locals and other immigrants. It's not outwardly hostile most of the time, but it's there.

Groups that are most frequently targeted by prejudice: Moroccans, Turks. Also seen a lot of prejudice against Poles and Russians.

Oh and Romani. Nobody likes Romani.

No one? Sometimes there is some joking commentary about our native population and the silly stereotypical portrayals by Canadian Heritage Moments (PSA commercials) that they get featured in but I've never seen someone be actually racist towards them. Where I live it just... really isn't racist. It's like that throughout most of the country, though you do get the odd asshole or pocket of them.

I have been to Australia and been completely shocked by all the comments about "Abbos" and whatnot. It was also the first time I've ever heard someone use the word chink irl.

Fellow Canadian here, but my city is much the same. The only comment I've heard in years is once my stylist referred to her "mulatto" friend.

OTOH, Melbourne Australia is the most racist place I've ever lived, and that includes Los Angeles.

Yeah, I actually didn't even know that the term "mulatto" was racist until someone pointed it out to me. There just aren't that many black people around here hahaha, so for the longest time I just thought that was a way to refer to someone who is mixed race. Of course I no longer use it, but I felt like an idiot when I found that out.

"Mulatto" is racist there? O_O Why?

I'm from Oslo, Norway, and I mostly see/hear about racism directed at 'Somali' (which means Africans), 'Pakistani' (not necessary people from Pakistan), 'Muslims' (People from the Middle-East) and Romani. Racism towards the Romani is the most obvious, and I don't feel like most people have an issue about being vocal about how they don't like the Romani.

There is also racism directed towards the Sami, though it's not something I've personally has seen. However, a friend of mine (who is a 1/4 Sami) started crying in a sociology class when people aired their thoughts on the Sami (which included that they were "useless" apparently, though I was not there to witness it myself).

Immigrants are racist towards native Norwegians too though, and in some cases I feel it's more obvious as it's seen as more politically correct to, you know, not be racist towards immigrants than the other way around (or something like that). So racism is by no means a one-way street. Everyone's a little bit racist sometimes etc.

Turkish (seems to be less since I left school, until I turn on a TV), Polish, Greek.

There's also a heck of a lot of general xenophobia/islamophobia.

You'd think German kids don't spend at least 6 years in school hearing about how fucking bad an idea racism is, but there you have it.

People in your area are racist towards Greeks? Only since their financial problems or even before then? Where in Germany are you from?

Where I'm from (Southern Germany) it's the Turkish, Russians, and Polish.

Irish here, and most of what I've seen has been pointed at Muslims, 'Pakis' (as someone above me said, not necessarily from Pakistan), Poles (mostly in the form of 'immigrants coming in and taking our jobs') and Travellers. In my home town, it was mostly towards Travellers that I saw, because we had a large and well-established community of settled Travellers in the town, while in Cork, my college city, I mostly encountered it towards Muslims and South Asians.

There were probably others, I just remember those most clearly because they weirded me out so much. My Gran was very anti-Traveller, I remember being constantly weirded out by how casually dismissive/vitriolic she was about them, because it didn't fit with the way she talked about other people in more or less the exact same circumstances. There were a couple of Muslim girls in my school (all-girl Catholic school that had been taken over by the State), and I remember being kind of surprised by how nervous Aisha looked when I asked her what religion she was (I knew the hijab meant a different religion, but I didn't actually know which one at the time). And then in college, I was still very new to the city, I was walking past a father practicing cricket with his kids in the park just off the cricket grounds, and a group of teenage guys started yelling at them to 'go home Pakis'. My expression must have changed or something, because all of sudden the whole bunch of them turn to me instead, and just as I'm starting to panic (because there were about six of them and they were big and yelling stuff), they start ... apologising. To me. 'Sorry missus'. I ... have no idea.

I'm not good at people, so I probably don't notice this stuff near as much as I should, just when it makes things weird around me.

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