White discrimination against other Whites ?

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When white guys hire only a certain other ethnic group, while thousands of his own ethnic group, and even two others are available.

Just something I was thinking.

I'm told that there are three types of Yankees:

1. Yankee - A person who was born and raised north of the Mason-Dixon line, and who may or may not occasionally visit the South.

2. Damnyankee - A Yankee who relocates to south of the Mason-Dixon line and minds his or her own business.

3. Carpetbagger - Any Damnyankee who goes on about how much better things are in the North.

I'm sure there are innumerable variations on this theme.

I don't think racism has to apply only to a group of a totally different skin color than your own. People within a race of a particular skin color tend to hate others in their group for things like nationality or religion. Even the slightest differences can make people hate each other and want to kill each other. In Africa there are tribes who are trying to commit genocide against each other, many people in Japan have an open hatred towards the Chinese and the Koreans, and I hear of hispanic gangs who violently attack each other whenever they get the chance because of their ethnic differences despite the fact that they are all hispanic.

White people pretty much do the same thing, and there are many flavors of the caucasian race. You have your Anglos Saxons with their blonde hair and fair skin, and you have your Mediterraneans with their dark hair and olive skin. Today some descrimination can be seen in the fact that many Americans and Europeans look down on the Germans and Russians (whose countries are dominantly white) due to the bad stuff they did in World War II and the Cold War. That in itself can be viewed as whites descriminating against other whites.

it was our first "nation-building" exercise following the war, and it could have been better. You live but unfortunately we didn't learn from this, or at least not the right lesson for the subsequent wars we'd end up fighting.

I was actually thinking about northerners transplanted to the south in modern times, rather than during reconstruction. But that was doubtlessly an even bloodier example of the boreaphobia felt by southerners.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Bob Marley was half white

I am amused at the irony of this thread. ESPECIALLY if we consider the target population of the forum. <.<

Oh and Vig, we have a few teachers in my department of anthropology at UdeM that have english first and last names, and we still get along very well with them. Some of my favorite ones are among them as well. :p

Besides, if it's any consolation, I discriminate not on what language a person talks, or her skin color or religion, but on the substance of what they say. And generally, I find myself agreeing quite a lot with you.

In my mind, discrimination is based on difference or rather, a failure to communicate (and yes, sorry for being cliché). It came to me when I was studying the case of Deaf people worldwide, including France and America. Their use of sign language "frightened" more than a few people, who could not understand what they were doing, so they were forced into oralist methods, which is trying to speak or understand "hearing" people, by reading on their lips, which is quite hard if you take into account phonemes that are produced at the same locations, not to mention voiced sounds which can hardly be read. All for the sake of being integrated into the "mainstream" and part of the "national" community. (I won't go into the eugenic arguments here)

The tale of the Deaf people made me realize the history of autistic people is almost no different. =/ Isn't there always a pressure onto us to "conform" to a certain "mainstream" image? Such as being successful, hard-working, etc. ?

I have no doubt. I actually really like living in this province, there are some really great people here, French and English. In fact most of the people I know are either French or of French background so of course I know that most are not bigoted. There are also very ignorant anglos who have the exact same attitude as their francophone "rivals". Its really quite sad. But you should not be surprised that the people in your university are more tolerant, the intolerance in this province is mostly bottom up, not top down, though there are certainly exceptions. I think you'll find that the fire of bigotry often burns hottest in those with little education and income, everywhere in the world