I'm Not Racist But...

I don't know about you, but I often think that anyone who starts a sentence with the line "I'm not racist but......" usually continues to dig themselves into a pit which quite clearly marks them out as being a racist, or rather more politely, in my own charmingly old fashioned terminology: prejudiced. Yes, this is about racism, but surely it cannot have passed your notice that racism very often goes hand in hand with other prejudices including religion, homophobia, and even sex prejudice. Why is this? My simplistic theory, for what it is worth, is that as humans we are programmed to fear what we do not understand or have no ...  Read the complete review

If you go around schools, colleges, universitys, work places and even the streets in Britain, you will find at least one racist. Why this is ? Well I'm not to sure, if you ask you get the very common answer either that they just are, or they say they aren't a racist... yeah you can't really say this after you make a horrible remark about someone. HOWEVER, yeah sometimes people do say "I'm not a racist" even though they aren't some times you feel the need to say it because well.. it can be automatic to say it, just to make sure people don't find it in an offensive way. Of course as I said you can only say that your not racist if you didn't say anything ...  Read the complete review

Has much of the British population become overly sensitive when it comes to other peoples races and cultures, to the extent where they're in great fear of being seen as racist? My answer would be a catergoric yes. Being a a quarter malaysian, a quarter chinese and half caucasian, i find just about every person i meet is intrigued by my "ethnic background". Brought up in a predominantly white community, throughout my school and college life, i've often been faced with pretty much the same question; "No offence, but, like, well, erm where are you from?" To which i answer "England." "Oh right i see, so erm, ...  Read the complete review

Sooner or later the truth comes out.In a class full of white people being one of the very few black or asian people from India,Pakistan or Bangladesh the truth and feelings eventually come out.Whether during a group project discussion about what people in uk wear in spring a white girl stating "Well asians wear jeans" or the glares,ignoring and criticising someone colored while staying silent when a white person does the same thing is proof of racism.Not to mention the tabloids and television always talking about the rise in asians in U.K while deeply ignoring the fact of millions of Polish,French,German,Italian,Norweighian,Aussies,Finland,U.S.A and other parts ...  Read the complete review

This whole topic makes me feel pretty uncomfortable! When people start a sentence with "im not racist..." they pretty much always follow it with a racist statement. Not to say that that is the case with the reviews under this topic, although some have made my eyes bulge a bit. People, generally daily mail reader types, get very annoyed about the idea of foreigners moving into the UK. There are good reasons for this, but the sad truth is most of the people complaining know absolutely nothing about the economy of our country or the effects migration and immegration really have. And many of them are the same people who ...  Read the complete review