Does racism effect you?

Yes

personal i am disgusted whenever i here any thing racist and no mater who said it i will always correct them there racism is just ignorance and i will always try to help people who are racially bullied and will end it.

so to you answer to your question racism does effect me a big way.

Greetings,

It has done in the past. But I'm over it.

You either become extremely resentful or you become a stronger and more balanced person.

I'd like to think that I've become the latter. When I had people constantly making racist remarks and threats or pushing me in the hallway, I'd not react.

Silently I'd become very angry and frustrated though. But when I reflected later on, I always knew that it was better to refrain from engaging with these people. I realised that simply because the ten-eleven of them belonged to the same faith and that there were many others also in support of their views that I knew not of, they didn't represent the majority. I continued to have positive engagements and relationships in the same environment with people of their faith. And the contrast only made them more pathetic in my eyes.

So it's affected me for the better. But you did ask 'Does racism affect you?' and to answer your question, not personally no. You hear little about it in newspapers or radio stations these days. When I do however, it saddens me greatly. I've finished my GCSE's now and left High School and the only time I'll ever have to see these people again is on 'Results Day'. On the last day of school, knowing this, I walked past the worst culprit of this racist abuse playing my national anthem -'Hatikva' on my phone LOUD and with pride. You could say this action was foolish, but seeing them become so irritated gave me a good thrill and an immense feeling of satisfaction.

Warm regards.

Not really.

There are some people who I know (but obviously dislike) who constantly makes racist remarks. But i think generally as a generation we're the most tolerant of a diversity of cultures and I'm very proud of that.

As time goes on i think the amount of racism in the world will decrease as well due to more multi-cultural relationships and children appearing resulting in less defined races - a time that I look forward to.

I'm sure there are places where it is still a big problem but I actually think it's on its way out when you compare with the past.

Yes it does. I have been on the shiity end of racism many many many times. Im a white male. Ive also been on the shiity end of sexism. And I dont act racist to anyone. I dont have a shred of racism or sexism in me. But I am a victim of it. And being a white male, I receive a lot of stereotypes regarding my own racism and sexism. I do ask questions about it when I observe it, though.

I was born and raised in a town in central california. The only white people I knew were my immediate family. In high school there were five or six white kids out of a class of several thousand. All my life until the day I left california, white people are regarded as the "majority." Ive been turned down for jobs as the more qualified individual in favor of a less-qualified "minority". And in high school when it came time for me to apply for scholarships, though my grades were stellar, out of thousands of scholarships only a few did I meet the prerequisites for (race wasnt specified, economic status wasnt specified, only grades mattered)... and none of scholarships accepted me, I lost all to minority races. My family wasnt a minority race, my dad wasnt a farmer, we were poor but we were barely getting by... in a house of white kids who performed exceptionally well academically... and it wasnt good enough for a scholarship. Me and my brother were literally forced to move out of our home town and join the military... it was the only way we could ever have a professional chance or pay for school.

I dont regret joining the service. But I shouldnt have had to. I despise any minority race individual who whines about the racism they receive... I have come just as far on far less. At least the minorities live in a society geared toward giving them undeserved privilege... if youre as unwell off as any supposed stereotypical minority claims to be, but are white... you have no chance whatsoever.

eh...you see it depends how you look at it...Maybe it does affect everyone in someway. But maybe what affects you doesn't really affect them. Like maybe they don't feel like it does affect them when in fact it does. By Affect you can any number things...so this question is very um....how do I say it...um you could say controversial...You will get like two totally opposite answers or u know...

so u see its just all how a person sees it

Just my thoughts

as for your question

I agree with you

and it does affect me..In many different ways..

Many people discriminate me because I am Latina

and another way

is some of my family members say that I try to be white when i tell them of my dreams and goals of going to college

so u see what i mean>?

Have a wonderful day dear

The BELIEF that one race is superior to another - thats the definition.

I think everyone is racist to some extent, its a similar form of tribalism or patriotism so in the case of racism yes.

Anyway, have i ever been discriminated against? Yes, does it affect me? No...who cares, plenty of times in my life where im not being discriminated against xD

a little. racism isn't just whites against blacks (and yeah i am going to use that word if you consider it ok to call me white. get over it) it is people using the color of someone's skin to discriminate against them. and trust me it goes both ways. affirmative action can be used to discriminate against "white" people though that was not it's purpose.

it has always annoyed me that by chance of genetics i was born with pale skin and blue eyes. when by genetic rights i should be tan and have brown eyes and hair. i am mostly Hungarian. go figure. so i have never gotten the race issue. if you ask me my race i will say American. you ask my heritage i will tell you mostly Eurasian as my family always was a bit of a roaming group. i will never subscribe to the labels that people try to stick on me and others. a person is a person no matter their color, creed, or heritage. they are either good people or bad people and that has very little to do with the previous things.

if we stopped making it matter it no longer would.

Well, I'm black, so yeah.... Most of the time, I don't think about it, it's just every day. HOWEVER, there are definite times when I know I am being judged by my race and it is a little off putting. Of course, it's nothing at all, no where near, ever, like living in 1940 or even living in 1970...

I think racism affects everybody, whatever your race is, just perhaps less extremely than if racism is directed at them.. I'm a white female and racism affects me, because I had to deal with listening to people spouting bigoted remarks about employee's who are of different race and tried to hold my tongue for months until I had enough and spoke out which got me sacked (of course he denies anything he said). It was his word against mine and ugh, it makes me so angry!

Not me, directly. I've been called a cracker, but like as a joke (so sorry if that offended anyone!) But no one was ever seriously trying to be serious. I just get disgusted by how some poeple could judge or hate someone by the color of their skin. Ugh I hate discrimination!