America: Homophobia & Racism

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hatmoza said:
I remember a couple years back, on a dating website (not a bad way to meet people honestly), I was talking to this girl for about a week. She finally asked me what my ethnicity was and when I told her I'm half middle eastern she deleted her account minutes later.

I'm called a camel-jockey, a *and I quote* "sand nigga" and a stinking Ayrab at least once a week at work.

I've been to many places around the world and unfortunately America is the most prejudice of the bunch. However, there are the majority of open minded, intelligent people that see through a lot of those stereotypes and boy are they fun to meet :)

I want to say -other- Middle Easterns and Muslims got it the worst. That's completely based on personal experience.

Camel Jockey and Sand Nigga are mild. Now being called a "terrorist" is much worse. During the 2006 Lebanon vs Israel conflict, I'd be walking down the street and people would shout out 'LEBANON GOES BANG!!' (I'm Lebanese by the way). All my friend's make small jokes at my background, referencing terrorism and Aladin, all you can really do is laugh along with them because they just don't undertstand how hurtful that is. My cousin and his friend was bashed nearly to death a few week's ago by a local football team because of their ethnicity. My cousin now has a huge scare from his scalp to below his ear and his friend's in rehab because he can't move his leg's properly and has fits (they're 15).

Yup, us Arab's have had it pretty bad over the course of 9 year's...