@dzakyem
Dzakye M
@dzakyem · 4:56

Racism is beyond me! - Do YOU understand it?...

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Racism is shocking to me. I have grown up in a country, Switzerland, where there was very little mixing. Even the people of the next village were considered strange. But I haven't grown to racing this person of discovery with interest and sometimes mystification or questioning people of a different color. I saw a student who was a black woman when I was 18. I went to France, to Paris where there were black people in the underground. I saw black people. Yes

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@omaniblog
Paul OMahony
@omaniblog · 4:03
It would be interesting if it was possible to have somebody who had that prejudice come here and discuss it so that it is possible to understand the point of view of somebody who is prejudiced against people who have a different skin color to themselves. All of us who don't have that prejudice, we're so different from that that it's probably very hard to understand. Anyway, there's a question about there's a belief that we mustn't give racists a platform. We must not let them speak
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@barbarakb
Barbara KB
@barbarakb · 2:13

@dzakyem

I can't say it's something that I haven't understood or grappled with or whatever, because I am surrounded by all kinds of people, all kinds of races and colors and creeds and nationalities, and that's all I've ever known. Check my judgingess on everything. I guess that's why I understand it. And yet I don't accept it. So I understand it, but I don't accept it and I reject it and I don't make it a part of myself
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@Swell
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 2:26

R.E.S.P.E.C.T

It takes a very strong individual to show them that that is not the case, that they are perhaps even better than you are, and they deserve more respect and so on. But that requires actively mixing with the people that you disrespect and starting to respect them. And I believe the problem is that we do our very best to segregate, to keep separate and so on. And with that, and I've seen families do their very best to draw borders on schools, on neighborhoods and so on
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@Tim
Tim Ereneta
@Tim · 3:47
I'm going to assume I'm going to be more readily accepting of cultural narratives and stereotypes. And I think one reason is because I just haven't grown up with those people. I don't have the exposure. I've never lived in a country where I was not in a majority that type of thing
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@dzakyem
Dzakye M
@dzakyem · 2:03

Interesting! Xenophobia, misgivings towards difference vs racism?...

Hello, Barbara. I think you're referring to kind of a, let's say Xenophobia, which means a fear of what is different. We may have misgivings or judgments based on. Yes, and I've just experienced it here in the train today. The appearance of a person made me see him in an unfavorable light, in the way he expressed himself. So it doesn't mean they're free of preconceptions and prejudices based on appearance
@dzakyem
Dzakye M
@dzakyem · 3:02

1) Disqualifying beforehand + separation = justification of prejudices 2) Racism experienced

Thank you Sudha very interesting response yes disqualifying people beforehand that s what you're saying So we expect the others to be less valuable and despicable and that's why we separate and since we separate we don't know them and we can keep our prejudices in place so that's a very interesting way of describing it and yes I'm sorry to hear you felt you've experienced racism in London I did in Leicester once they said foreigner go home because I had addressed them hesitating to speak and they saw that I wasn't British so I was just refused entrance in a club in Leicester when I was 23 so 33 years ago but it was quite shocking and sometimes I tell my students about it there in Leicester it was due to apparently the presence of a great number of quick changes immigration of a lot of Indian communities it seems so quick changes are sometimes of years and yes things like that and then aggressivity towards people linked to these changes which doesn't make things justifiable but as it were partly understandable yes yes that's the big difference, isn't it
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@dzakyem
Dzakye M
@dzakyem · 1:57

@Tim Woaw! + Very cleat'r description of the "lashing out" mechanism as compensation or revenge on the experienced harm!...

And there is for once the possibility to be in charge, to be above and to lash out or let the steam out at even weaker people. So as it were, to take revenge on the people who take revenge on life, which has been unfair to them. So thanks a lot. This was really explicit and very interesting. I think you've really hit some points there and describe them very precisely. And I'm thankful for that. Bye. Thanks
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@LadyO
Ophelia Johnson
@LadyO · 5:00

#racismisreal #lovenothate #weareallspecial

It's like this fear and this superiority that kind of combines to create this hatred. Then you have people who have their prejudices, which are maybe something's happened to them. Maybe they were beat up by a black person when they were younger or they saw something or the movies or the this or the that or they're prejudging someone based on what someone else has said, what someone else has done. And so therefore, they don't really like people of a certain race
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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:45

@LadyO

Lady, I must say your spot on about the global pandemic because a lot of times when I speak to Americans they seem to think that racism is very unique to America or at least Western world and so on. But the fact of the matter is it's present everywhere and we find ways and means by which to be racist with fellow citizens of the same country
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@dzakyem
Dzakye M
@dzakyem · 4:05

@LadyO Strange psychological workings...

Yes, sometimes you are in a competition, I can understand that. But beyond that idea that I hate you because otherwise my kind will become extinct or won't survive. So it's either you or me which also happens in Kosovo between the Kosovo people and the Serbian people. And I understand there are some competitions between different cultures but strangely enough there is strong racism in countries where these foreigners or these people with different skin color are a tiny minority
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