To be fair, my dad's become a pretty damned racist guy in the past 10 years or so, and regularly makes comments like, "Those black folks next door actually aren't too bad." As if by default, just being black, they would be. He says similar things about other races, and his take on Pakistanis is just weird.
My take on it is when you meet someone you give them a chance to show you who they are, and decide if you like them based on that showing rather than their race. However, if they don't give me that same chance, that IS showing me who they are. Living in Ann Arbor I've met, had classes with, and worked with people of practically every race there is, and almost all of them have been great. There was one guy I wasn't "Indian enough" for, two or three black people who pre-judged me because I'm not, and a few lesbians who just didn't like men, but I think that's the only times I've had problems of that nature.
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Date: 2007-04-10 06:47 pm (UTC)My take on it is when you meet someone you give them a chance to show you who they are, and decide if you like them based on that showing rather than their race. However, if they don't give me that same chance, that IS showing me who they are. Living in Ann Arbor I've met, had classes with, and worked with people of practically every race there is, and almost all of them have been great. There was one guy I wasn't "Indian enough" for, two or three black people who pre-judged me because I'm not, and a few lesbians who just didn't like men, but I think that's the only times I've had problems of that nature.