[Laurent]

First, congratulations for challenging your own opinions instead of acting by inertia. I have experienced discrimination within my own country: just because I was from the South and had a funny accent, I was put in the ‘you can’t play with us’ group, among kids from Portuguese or northern African origins. Hanging around a lot of Arabs from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia gave me the opportunity to hear some racist/discriminating opinions felt the Morrocans were not to be trusted and that Tunisians were ‘pussies’). I found out years later that a lot of Vietnamese people have a ‘passionate’ relationship with the Chinese. A tune sung by kids even goes something like: ‘The Chinese, their asses all look the same. The one who doesn’t have his documentation should go back home’. It’s sung by 6-year-old kids, I swear it!

I see racism as a behavior based on wrong conclusions and generalizations we all practice to some extent. Just as you cannot regard black people as bad because you had bad experiences with some of them, they can’t blame you for being a descendant of slave owners – just like you can’t blame the Holocaust on Germans who were not born at that time.

A last little fact: I heard an Egyptian customs officer saying that he checked the names of white people instead of the photograph on their passport because ‘they all look the same’… It could be actually interesting to collect a list of prejudices from various cultures and nations, just to observe how absurd it gets.

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Name : Laurent, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : slight auditive handicap, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : my own mix of various religions, Age : 34, City : Barcelona, State : na, Country : Spain, Occupation : freelance illustrator, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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