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**Neitteloxesia** · 09-14-2011, 11:12 AM

Just institutionalized racism, that's why I have no job and live at home...yup.

The only time I've ever encountered racism is from Natives here and there. Nothing too bad, stuff like "eeeh whitey got a smoke" and if you refuse "fuckin' racist whitey". I haven't been gang-beaten like some.

Interstitially I've never had any troublesome experiences because of my Lebanese side.

When you look ambiguous or can pass as many things, you will experience the best of both worlds. Unwanted negative attention can include extra security searches on your person, intrusive questions, people calling you slurs and epithets due to your real or perceived ethnic group (and when they are mistaken it is a real hoot), or more often, the subtle, inappropriate comments and generalizations people make about your perceived group.

Institutional racism is the easiest for me to discern but the most difficult to remedy from what I see.

Institutional racism is something everyone experiences and accepts whether that's a good thing or not, I don't know. But even a slightly racially biased management can look at an employee's individual merits, and judge him/her based upon that. This of course isn't true all the time.

09-14-2011, 11:12 AM	#23
Neitteloxesia Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 350 Senior Member	Just institutionalized racism, that's why I have no job and live at home...yup. The only time I've ever encountered racism is from Natives here and there. Nothing too bad, stuff like "eeeh whitey got a smoke" and if you refuse "fuckin' racist whitey". I haven't been gang-beaten like some. Interstitially I've never had any troublesome experiences because of my Lebanese side. When you look ambiguous or can pass as many things, you will experience the best of both worlds. Unwanted negative attention can include extra security searches on your person, intrusive questions, people calling you slurs and epithets due to your real or perceived ethnic group (and when they are mistaken it is a real hoot), or more often, the subtle, inappropriate comments and generalizations people make about your perceived group. Institutional racism is the easiest for me to discern but the most difficult to remedy from what I see. Institutional racism is something everyone experiences and accepts whether that's a good thing or not, I don't know. But even a slightly racially biased management can look at an employee's individual merits, and judge him/her based upon that. This of course isn't true all the time.
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