It does seen ingrained "you're different from everyone else so you are inferior". In School it can be for any reason, you're tall, you're short, you're stupid, you're smart
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It does seen ingrained "you're different from everyone else so you are inferior". In School it can be for any reason, you're tall, you're short, you're stupid, you're smart
Yeah, I've noticed the reactions of drunk british guys.... :laugh: :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
Haha, don't worry about it, I was called a "cioara" following the nice and lovely "wassup nigg**". I mentioned it in my previous post when I talked about the Romanian slur words.Quote:
Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo
I don't think any sane and professional doctor would just look at someone and assume something without running the necessary proper tests. And frankly, this never happened to me ever before, and I have lived in different countries for varying periods of time because of work.Quote:
Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo
LOL. Now this is rich. I'm a paranoid foreigner walking on the streets obsessed with people staring at me. :laugh: You know, you have to accept things as truth when someone tells you something. Not to diss at your countrymen or something, but the way people here are assertive about things they have no idea about, is quite scary as well. For example, there was a guy in some pub arguing with me about India, telling ME how things are there. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo
How are you "sure" that I'm obsessing with this, when you haven't walked in my shoes or actually have never experienced anything like this? When you have an old woman stop right in her tracks in front of you as you pass her by, then turn her head and keep staring until the end of the street, you know you're an alien. :laugh:
And secondly, what does a German influence have to do anything with a dark skinned person on the street not being a curiosity? I had people pointing at me from across the street. It was weird! And yes, this is not racism, but I never said it was. BTW it was Sighisoara, Petrosani etc in the Transylvania region, and this is also where I met some of the most genuinely good human beings, friendly, civilized, kind, hospitable and always with a smile on their face. :)
Well, that's damn right. Education always plays a big role in all of this. Usually I've had problems with uneducated idiots, while the educated fellas have no problems. But that doctor was educated you know. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo
Dude, relax. I'm not branding the whole country as racist, but you can't deny that still there are people still who are quite blatantly racist, and this is the case with every country on this planet. Hell, I saw a group of young Romanian teenagers with swastika stickers, proclaiming to be from a Neo Nazi group. What do you call that?Quote:
Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo
True that I don't understand the language, just some words here and there, but the person who translated it to me is actually a professional translator working for European companies. Plus, she has no reason to lie. So, yeah, I would trust her translation and her judgment on this.Quote:
Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo
Not sure if it's exactly racism, but the caste system in India doesn't fit the modern world IMO. How strong is it India nowadays?Quote:
Originally Posted by X-ecutioner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India
That's mostly related to Hindus, since they still have the caste system present in villages I guess. What I know and have seen is that Hindus in the cities aren't bothered with this anymore, however there are still some who marry within their own caste and stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eki
I come from a Christian family, so I wouldn't know much about this, however there are some sects in Christianity, especially in South India but that's about it. There's certainly no discrimination based on religious sects, however there might be some discrimination between castes in Hinduism. We learned about he whole Hindu caste system in the 4th or 5th grade, but who the heck remembers what we learned in primary school. :D
Yeah, that is such a really bad case of racism, I mean, it is just awful. Far worse than white farmers getting killed in loads in certain african countries, just because they are white. Far worse :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by X-ecutioner
Truly such a horrific incident, how will we ever get over it :( I think I am about to cry.
I would have laughed at that joke by the way. It is based on a historical reality, right? Nothing will change that. So why not joke about it? My ancestors were slaves for hundreds of years (far longer than people from Africa taken to America were) and I am very much okay at jokes on that, if the jokes are funny I will laugh. Heck, I can even make jokes about that myself. I will not cry racism, I will not get offended, I will not be a teenage girl about it.
Predictably, you have left out whites as the groups who are the target of racist hate. There are plenty of places in many european cities these days that if you go there and you are white, you are very likely to get an ass-kicking. Funny how such incidents dont get as much or even anywhere near as much coverage as any incident where a "minority" gets hurt, get.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
In this case all I can say is " Welcome to Romania !" :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by X-ecutioner
Now seriously: we have some very good doctors. The real problem is that most of them aren't interested in their work ( except for the case when you "stimulate" them ) and our hospitals have no decent equipments.
Not exactly paranoid. Most likely you're oversensitive.Quote:
Originally Posted by X-ecutioner
You can't be angry with the ideas of a guy in a pub.
I experienced but from different other reasons. It's embarassing but people will stare for different reasons. Besides, the oldie may meet dark skinned people everywhere and I'm sure you're not darker than Banel :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by X-ecutioner
( maybe the old woman confused you with Banel, you know he's popular.... ).
German influence means other mentality and better manners. Look at Brasov-Sibiu-Sighisoara and compare them with Bucharest.Quote:
Originally Posted by X-ecutioner
It's my fault. I used the word " uneducated " because I don't know the english one for " marlan ", " t(z)oparlan ", " neam prost ". In romanian an educated person doesn't mean only that he studied and have general knowledge but that he also have good manners. Our problem is that most of the people who have universitary studies suffer of a terrible lack of manners.Quote:
Originally Posted by X-ecutioner
Terribilism. I bet they don't know much about it. :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by X-ecutioner
I don't have doubts about translation but about the way the girl talked. I can say the same phrase in different ways: joking, arguing, threatening, being surprised, etc. I'm sure the person who translated didn't it by "playing the roles" of the couple.Quote:
Originally Posted by X-ecutioner
At the same time I read the story told by you but I have no clue how the girl talked. I know the kind of jokes about africans and that's why I suppose she joked.
BTW, let's see the other face of the coin. During the communist period we had loads of african young people who studied here. Unlike us they had money and the freedom to travel. Generally we were friends but some of them looked at us in a superior way. Don't know if it's based on real facts but the usual joke was about a romanian who laughed at an african saying that he was just decending from a tree and the african replied: yeah, but I did it directly in a Mercedes.
Most likely the farmers get killed because they have land and and the killers don't, not because they are white. The same happened in Russia in 1917 onwards, and it's was not about skin color but political color.Quote:
Originally Posted by Garry Walker
Wow, somebody got their panties in a bunch. :rolleyes: Did I even begin to compare that joke with anything else? It was just something ridiculous that I heard. No need to overreact really, but then again going by your posts on this forum, that's not really a huge surprise. And as far as comparing goes, if you're mentioning white farmers getting killed in South Africa and Zimbabwe, then understand that it's pretty much out of retaliation because of the $h!t their forefathers had to go through for hundreds of years. Apartheid ring a bell? Being a slave in your own country ruled by foreigners too much?Quote:
Originally Posted by Garry Walker
I'm not at all supporting it or trying to justify it, and in fact these things should NOT happen in today's world. It's a bunch of uneducated gun-happy idiots exacting revenge on some innocent farmers, and I completely condemn these actions, but when you cry about something, try to see the bigger picture.
Well, if you want to laugh at jokes like these, and even make some up yourself, then I guess that's you and your sense of humor, which I of course would never understand. I'm sure you and that girl will have a blast laughing your asses off for hours on these intelligent jokes. It's easy to jump and say, all the 'minorities' cry racism at the drop of a coin, unless you've actually lived as one and walked in their shoes. And I've seen many folks do this, seems to be the new trend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Garry Walker
Where exactly? I should know in order to avoid such pieces of Harlem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Garry Walker