Have YOU been accused of microaggressions??

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I am only on page one of this thread so please bear with me.

I just have a note to add about returning change as a cashier.

The correct way to do it is to count the money back. I can see people getting disturbed by a cashier not counting the money back.

You start with the total of the purchase and end with the amount you were given.

It is an extra bit of added service you can give people. I don’t know for sure when people stopped doing it.

I can’t help but think that must fit into the equation somewhere if at the very least putting heavy emphasis on that part of the transaction.

He lives in Australia which is closer to Asian countries than your country. I’m just stating an obvious permanent fact.

That's not a microaggression but a macroaggression haha. But it's between close friends. Only close male friends are allowed to insult eachother. It's a sign of affection. Because simply saying "I like you a lot" would be "gay". Being emotional with male friends is awkward. So they may insult eachother instead. My homosexual friends also wouldn't have minded me calling them f***. But I didn't. I just called things "gay" sometimes.

How does he know that the reason is because he is "Caucasian". It could be that they just dont like strangers touching them.

Here is the song mentioned a couple of pages up. Complete with the offending word still in.

Spoken in the same two breaths as 'maggot' and 'slut', its hardly noticeable. Silly censorship.


https://youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8

Maybe he does know. Maybe he doesn’t. I imagine he could be asked but sometimes I don’t second guess people. I think it is possible for Asians to be racist. I know some of them put emphasis on different shades of colors that I would not even notice. I know in Japan not everything is open to foreigners. I know Australians go on holiday to Thailand, etc… like I go on vacation south of the border or the Caribbean. I’m feeling pretty good about the fairness of my point.

This is just a side factoid but a larger percentage of Asian people lack the gene that causes underarm body odor. Supposedly, some Asian countries don’t have wide spread sales of deoderant because the people don’t need it. The percentages vary in different populations. I imagine some may generalize people as having body odor. I am pretty sure bad breath is another matter.

I’d be curious if anyone thinks my post makes any sense. I find the genetic part interesting. There could be lots of reasons not to like caucasians. I can see them being seen as loud and obnoxious especially if the only ones you see are drunk in bars.

I get accused of microaggressions all the time. I also get reprimanded and punished a lot for other people's assumptions of what they think I am saying or doing even though they are completely wrong in their assumptions

No one's every said microaggression specifically to me, but I'm sure I've unintentionally offended people before. I try not to do so nowadays, and replay every word I say, just to make sure I didn't offend or insult anyone. When I do on accident, I regret it forever and never do it again.
I try to watch everything I do, and I find it annoying that people get away with being loud, sporadic and offensive and still manage to be popular and have friends. I'm a people pleaser, so every single thing I do wrong, I imagine a point against me, and another reason for me friends to ditch me, or think I'm creepy and lame.