happydolphin on 12 January 2013
| Wyrdness said: What an interesting topic, can't speak about American society but I can tell you as a Black person in the UK rascism towards black people has died down significantly then years ago. Imo over here racism towards any ethnic group is a result of three things first the environment around you (a person's upbringing, who's around you as you grow up etc...), your persona (mentality and character) and perception of the world around you (media, news and so on). I grew up in a very mixed area literally most ethnic groups were around me so I'm not as privy to the cultures of other ethnic groups as being ignorant to them certainly is a pivotal factor in racism. Racism goes in all directions and I feel one of the reasons in the UK it's frowned upon heavily and actively stamped out is because ethnic groups are in more contact with each other and the UK is very multicultural, people have numerous friends across all boards, I'm not sure how things are in the US or how integrated areas with multiple ethnic groups are in the US society. I've been the subject of racial abuse several times in my life as racial abuse seems to be the route certain people in the world want to take to hurt others and a number of occasions it's not even that you know the person or even interact with them they just see your skin colour and make up their own mind. Right now most racism is geared toward people of Arab descent or anyone who remotely resembles them because of prats like Abu Hamza who preach hate and give the perception to anyone who's not knowledgeable about Islam that anyone Islamic is out to get them. Another large factor in squashing racism is the fear of being reprimanded, you only have to look at sites like Youtube where racist comments will pop up to any video with an ethnic person in it. |
I noticed how black people seem to be much more integrated in the british films I watch. They have the same manners as the white british most of the time, whereas in american movies, they are always different somehow (either they have an attitude or they speak differently, or they have graver voices).
