idk how it is in other countries.. i'm actually curious on how other countries are with this so if u know i would like u to tell me...
But i know that in America we judge people by the color of their skin and label them a certian way for example:
African-America
Asian- American
Mexican-American
Native -American
why can't we all just be "Americans" if tehcnically we all have the same last name when our race is put before it.
the worst part is, those who for example are labled "Mexican-American" may not even be Mexican.... they could be from Peru, or Brazil, however, just bc of their skin color we stamp a name on their foreheads. wh do we do that? r we afriad to be under the same name as someone who looks didferent than us? eventho we were all mostly born here we still automatically seperate the race ne of us are from others, then treat a person by their race and not by their personality.
i know not all of us are like that, but a lot are. And even if u don't talk poorly of another race or treat them any different, we still all recognize a person by their race. especially if we don't know them. ... As much as we r told not to, We all still judge a book by it's cover.
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It is really a stupid thing to have to label people like that, but we do here in the states. I'm not sure how it is in other countries. I'd rather everyone was just a person and that's it.
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -F.N.
I think in most, if not all, countries people are judged by the way they look and the color of their skin. I don't like it, but I guess it's human nature.
I live in Japan and it's definitely similar here. Most white people are assumed to be Americans. Once I was asked if I was Canadian, after I actually said a decently constructed sentence in Japanese. That shocked me a bit, realizing perhaps they figured I couldn't be American if I could speak a bit of decent Japanese???
When I visited Cambodia, a man I met there (who is Cambodian) said he has struggled because his skin is "too dark." And heck, he's 100% Cambodian! It's just that his skin is one shade darker than many other Cambodians.
Yes, sadly, being judged by skin color is typical. Sometimes I don't mind being the walking white freak show with blonde hair, but other times I just want to be a person.
I hate this too...I have some really good friends from El Salvador and Puerto Rico...and I hate when people call them Mexican...I think we should all just be people...it's stupid that we have to judge like that...what's even more sad though is that so many people realize it...yet it still happens
I know a kid who's a foreign exchange student from Brazil and he said that they don't really have discrimination there