Question to non-Americans

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curl-6 said:

I wish I had, but I was always too scared of getting in trouble. He was a real dickhead.

Attitudes like that are sadly not uncommon in rural towns like the one I grew up in. I like it so much better here in Melbourne, where people in general are more tolerant and informed and not stuck decades in the past.

Rural Australia was a lot like the rural United States. I worked on a farm in Mildura and the supervisor was very racist regularly insulting the South Korean work crew. However, when he found out they were being cheated and paid less he created a fuss and got them their fair pay. He said something along the lines "I don't care if you are stupid, and can't speak English everyone should get paid the same for the same work."

I left with very conflicting feelings about that individual.

You can be racist, but also have strong ethics.
I wouldn't be surprised if his attitude was simply born out of frustration... Because I would imagine working with people who are unable to speak the same language as yourself would be rather frustrating.

I live in rural Australia right now and honestly, racism isn't something I see very often, or even homophobia... And this is a very conservative safe seat for the liberal party.