Immersiveunreality said:
I do not know if its a big deal in Belgium but from a personal experience i noticed a lot of xenophobia growing up in this country . A big part of my own family is that way which is very conflicting for me and as a mixed person myself i had people not opening up and talking to me or plainly being mean till they heard me speaking in their own dialect, some of them even confessed they felt relieved i was no foreigner but that never felt as a compliment for me. :p Regularly i hear people talking about the foreigners that take their jobs or take their taxmoney,steal,cant be trusted and even worse i hear people cheer when a foreigner dies in an accident because "there's plenty of them" or "Its not one of us" or "those are worth less" . I did go to an all white shool as one of the few colored kids there, i think 2 or 3 total and i must say i had a very hard time in my early years and only when i grew and could defend myself they turned into cowards and stopped bullying but a lot of kids back then had xenophobic tendencies probably partly inherited from parents. I do not know about total statistic but from my own biased personal view i did witness a lot of negativity towards anything that looks or acts differently. |
It depends strongly on the region.
In my personal experience, people of mixed (Belgian and other) heritage are often looked beter upon then people of completely foreign origin. The problem is that Belgium is all over the map from total cosmopolitanism to severe xenophobism. Usually just a few towns apart.
