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Last edited by jbinion on 27 Mar 2009, 11:29 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Hi!
Welcome home! None of us can help our Asperger's autism or our skin color. We should be very sensitive about feeling odd, but you will find most of us are not.

you might like to meet our Warsie http://www.wrongplanet.net/forums-profi ... 18345.html he is from Chicago, too!

Merle

racism is just bigotry, and bigotry is ignorance with no interest in educating oneself.

just the need for a scapegoat, someone to point fingers at. people are weak.
you could look at the bright side, at least you dont fit a stupid stereotype

besides, what you list as "typically black", i see as "typically GUY" stereotypes anyway.
white people listen to stupid crap too, and steal other peoples chicks AND smoke weed, see thats the thing about racism, it doesnt make any sense

just bad luck for the black people, that a white stereotype is typically
"hello officer, are you coming to brunch with me and the missus tomorrow?"
as opposed to
"i aint done nothing wrong!! !"

ALSO:
you are american?
i have noticed this about americans:
they think USA is the only place that has black people
in norway, black people are immigrants from africa, and THEIR stereotype is:
# overworked student, who wants to become a doctor
# newspaperboy AND busdriver, to pay for studies
# cant speak norwegian for s**t, but still tries

not to mention africa. africa has tons of black people. in zimbabwe, i bet in their stereotypes the ghettos are full of piss-poor white people, who smoke weed, and run from police

Hi and Welcome.

We don't really have racism here in Australia - well, not like that anyway. (although Queensland is a different matter I think).

We don't tend to have blacks and whites, just people. It's such a multicultural country anyway.

It really sounds like you'd be better off amongst people who accept you for who you are, not what you look like.

At WP, you're the colour of your avatar, so most people here are actually cartoons.

whaaaat? i heard about lots of racism towards australian aborigins and stuff :S

its REALLY weird to claim that an entire nation "don't really have racism", cus racism exists everywhere.

Well, truth be told, I live in Sydney and I've probably seen a handful of Aborigines in the City in my entire life. They all looked happy and normal and I only recognised them as Aborigines because they were wearing traditional dress. We don't see them in the cities, or even in the country, they make up less than 1% of our population (and our population is tiny compared to Europe and the US).

I'm sure that there's racism here but I've never encountered anything like the OP described. We have one racist politician who isn't half as strong on her material as the media would have us believe... and we're always putting her in jail for trivial things like tax evasion.

Other than the aborigines, nobody has been in Australia for more than 200 years and we've all come from various different backgrounds. My ancestors were English, Scottish, Irish, French and German - my oldest Australian ancestor came here as a convict. Somehow that seems to level things a bit over here.

The best solution would be to just not care what other people think of you. Their opinions of you are of no real significance. And if they cannot accept you for who and what you are then they are not worth dealing with, just like the vast majority of people in general.
Furthermore, it sounds like you're doing very well for yourself. So just go on about your business and f**k all those idiots - it's not like you owe them anything.
Personally, I never game a damn what people think of me. I'm black too and I live my life the way I choose to live it. And if anyone has a problem with that - then tough s**t.

If I were go to anywhere outside my country, I know I'd be a double minority as well. I also do not fit in the Asian stereotype. I am not that compliant, I listen to rap, I spew vulgarities all the time and most importantly, I am not good in science and maths. I prefer to daydream in my own world, that is.

Racism is everywhere. I have been drilled that no matter where I go, if I weren't in my home nation, I will just be brushed away somehow unless I fit the interests of the host country I am living in. So do not worry, just be ourselves and nobody sensible will blame us for their troubles. The myopic racists --- forget about them! Let's be more welcoming to open-minded guys...

Well I don't judge people by their race just character.

Welcome to WP.

In UK,I don’t face racism as a problem, though being black and Asperger probably make starting relationships very difficult. As I assume people prefer there own race first choice or at least someone with similar characteristics.

I think about what available NT white woman for an NT white man. I could throw a football over the heads of at least 4 NT white girls in my neighborhood, from my house, but I have never seen a aspie black girl before ever.

I can t really imagine how life is like there where many whites are either racist are stick to their own and black are mostly beggin-it.

Of course we have racism here, and different forms of it (not always from whites, either).

My stepfather always talked about the Aborigines in the most disparaging way, and told us that aid workers in Africa were often (literally) stabbed in the back by those there were trying to assist. Then my cousin Geoff constantly cracked jokes about Aborgines, Māori and (East) Asians.

Such attitudes seem to be prevalent among blue-collar workers, which Geoff and my stepfather were. I know that's a gross generalisation, but you can't get away with having a more cosmopolitan outlook unless you're university-educated (or a student, at least), and live in the inner city (which, in Australian cities, is the affluent and educated part of town). Well, I dropped out of high school, and have only held entry-level jobs (and been long-term unemployed in the early '90s), so I don't belong with the middle class.

This is what makes it all too easy to be seduced towards anti-nonwhite views: Having a sense that the "liberal elite" wouldn't let me be part of them, or at least that I don't belong with them because of how I look on paper. At the same time, not being able to fit the Typical Aussie Male stereotype the blue-collar crowd holds so important. And so I've seen a need to take either one side or the other, and because of my lack of means, it seems I'm trapped with the latter; and perhaps hating the same groups of people they do could perhaps compensate for my differences in other ways, see? Still, I don't exactly feel proud of myself for letting those influences seep in. It's like some sort of Stockholm Syndrome.


Queensland is extremely hard on anyone being different for any reason. I've been jeered at by truck drivers, and had something thrown at me from a passing pick-up. It's that sort of place. I've HAD A GUTSFUL of living here, but don't see how to eacape.


I disagree with that much-used statement, as it's way too broad-brush. It may have been official policy for the last few decades, but it hasn't really filtered through to most places, especially regional and country areas. Just mainly in Melbourne and many parts of Sydney (not Camden or Sutherland Shire, though!).


The thing is, some of us find it near-impossible to find people who accept us as we are. I have over just the last 5-6 years, and all of them live interstate or overseas!


Is there sort of rash all over my back I'm unaware of? Oh dear, maybe there's some sort of medication which'll clear it up...

Last edited by BPalmer on 27 Mar 2009, 3:03 am, edited 1 time in total.

Yeah... maybe I'm just naive and/or sheltered....
...and I'm university educated and in a good job and work (but not live) in the city.

At school I had a small group of good friends; 1 British, 2 White Australian, 1 Lebanese, 1 Filipino, 1 Armenian. I knew them for years before I discovered that they were from other countries - except the Filipino who I thought was Chinese (because in 5th grade, all Asian people are "Chinese").

emo...or screamo music



do they sell bootlegs in the barbershop though



uh...no.

Hi, this is the first time I am replying a fellow Singaporean's post here.

Among the people I know in school, I find there are lots of them use rude words and vulgarities. In fact in the secondary school I went to, some of the so-called "cool" people use the word "ret*d" as an insult.