Have you ever been subjected to Racial/ Cultural Abuse/ Discrimination?

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Originally Posted by PRIDE OF BOSTON

It has been rather tough... Growing up as a upper middle class white kid in New England. ;D

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Cool, you must have an accent like Peter Griffin then?

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Originally Posted by AdamGB

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Originally Posted by JazMerkin

Being mixed-race, I tend to get it from everybody. I've been called pretty much every racial insult pertaining to mixed-race, black, Asian & Arab people & had racial abuse for the white side of me. So I'm kind of used to it. Truthfully, most of the time people come out with stuff, it's generally because they're ignorant, e.g. use of the term 'half-caste' which is very racist, but many people think is the normal term for mixed-race people, hell I did when I was little.

I used to have no problem beating on people for racist abuse, whether they were black, asian or white, but that was mainly when I was in my teens. Nowadays I get very little of it, mainly because being a bit older & bigger, I'm not perceived as an easy target. It's more general stereotypes that piss me off, like people always asking to buy drugs off me when I'm out in a club or when I had a job interview & the interviewer kept calling me 'man' & doing weird shit with his hands, as if I was a some ghetto stereotype in a string vest with a 40 oz rather than a double graduate in a suit.

Oh & for the record Adam, being a white male isn't what's holding you back. It's no easier being a non-white male, although I'm not saying it's harder. I think it generally boils down to class & who you know. A guy I did my Masters with, who was a considerably weaker candidate than me was able to get a job straight off the course. He didn't get jobs ahead of me because he's white, he got it because he's middle-class & his dad has a production company, cue connections. My old man has a small company that takes care of sewage maintenance. Sadly won't get me a job at the BBC :-\

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In most jobs that's the case, the areas I've found it in have been goverment jobs... there's strictly no canvasing.

The last one I went for before going self employed was in a Newcastle City Council Gym.

I had more qualifications than they wanted, I had experience and knowledge of everything on the person specification for the job and displayed this on my application form... I even had experience in working in newcastle city council (one of the specifications was 'able to work within and represent a local body). Ticked and exceeded every box... everything they wanted.

Like I said I live in a pretty nice area at the moment, so in terms of 'class' that's all they've got to go off on an application form.

They also wanted to know my ethnic background, maritial status, disabilitys and sexuality....








The application closed about 6 weeks ago and I've yet to hear a thing... I met literally every part of the person specification and my qualifications exceeded the minimum. Experience preferred but not necessary... I've got a shit load.

Not even an interview.

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Out here jobs come up for tender every so often but you get to realize that they are already spoken for, but to appear fair they go through all the motions and waste everyones time. Usually the guy who done the job before goes for and gets it again, or the bosses sons friend.

I've had to put up with some subtle and not so subtle Jew-bashing.

One of the most interesting situations came when I was teaching in a small predominately minority school in a predominately minority part of Boston. I was the only white male teacher and I happen to also be a Jew.

Boston is a city with a history of racial tension. To make a long story short, the powers that controlled the city at one time created a situation that encouraged minorities to move into the Jewish sections of town. "White flight" occurred, and in these neighborhoods, Jews were known more as landlord and business owners. Add to the mix a large Mosque related to Farakan's Nation of Islam.

I had an African-American collegue who I considered (and still consider) a friend say some completely ignorant things about "The Jews" and then get very upset when I told her that much of what she was staying were out and out lies, very old in nature, which continue to be spread by people like Farahkan. Well, it got ugly. Another person (also black) jumped in against me. Thankfully, one enlightened person (also black) jumped in on my side.

There were some sore feelings for a few days, but after we talked more later with cooler heads, we both really learned something - they learned about how Jews and Blacks have been pitted against each other for years and found out a few things many people of Jewish background have done to help other minorities.

Got a piece of what many black people who are the lone minority in a group go through constantly.

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Originally Posted by Andre

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Originally Posted by AdamGB

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Originally Posted by JazMerkin

Being mixed-race, I tend to get it from everybody. I've been called pretty much every racial insult pertaining to mixed-race, black, Asian & Arab people & had racial abuse for the white side of me. So I'm kind of used to it. Truthfully, most of the time people come out with stuff, it's generally because they're ignorant, e.g. use of the term 'half-caste' which is very racist, but many people think is the normal term for mixed-race people, hell I did when I was little.

I used to have no problem beating on people for racist abuse, whether they were black, asian or white, but that was mainly when I was in my teens. Nowadays I get very little of it, mainly because being a bit older & bigger, I'm not perceived as an easy target. It's more general stereotypes that piss me off, like people always asking to buy drugs off me when I'm out in a club or when I had a job interview & the interviewer kept calling me 'man' & doing weird shit with his hands, as if I was a some ghetto stereotype in a string vest with a 40 oz rather than a double graduate in a suit.

Oh & for the record Adam, being a white male isn't what's holding you back. It's no easier being a non-white male, although I'm not saying it's harder. I think it generally boils down to class & who you know. A guy I did my Masters with, who was a considerably weaker candidate than me was able to get a job straight off the course. He didn't get jobs ahead of me because he's white, he got it because he's middle-class & his dad has a production company, cue connections. My old man has a small company that takes care of sewage maintenance. Sadly won't get me a job at the BBC :-\

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In most jobs that's the case, the areas I've found it in have been goverment jobs... there's strictly no canvasing.

The last one I went for before going self employed was in a Newcastle City Council Gym.

I had more qualifications than they wanted, I had experience and knowledge of everything on the person specification for the job and displayed this on my application form... I even had experience in working in newcastle city council (one of the specifications was 'able to work within and represent a local body). Ticked and exceeded every box... everything they wanted.

Like I said I live in a pretty nice area at the moment, so in terms of 'class' that's all they've got to go off on an application form.

They also wanted to know my ethnic background, maritial status, disabilitys and sexuality....








The application closed about 6 weeks ago and I've yet to hear a thing... I met literally every part of the person specification and my qualifications exceeded the minimum. Experience preferred but not necessary... I've got a shit load.

Not even an interview.

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Out here jobs come up for tender every so often but you get to realize that they are already spoken for, but to appear fair they go through all the motions and waste everyones time. Usually the guy who done the job before goes for and gets it again, or the bosses sons friend.

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Tendering for contracts is a funny old game. Especially were Local Authorities are concerned.

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Originally Posted by Andre

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Originally Posted by PRIDE OF BOSTON

It has been rather tough... Growing up as a upper middle class white kid in New England. ;D

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Cool, you must have an accent like Peter Griffin then?

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Actually Quahog is based off of the town I grew up in ;D It's Warwick RI

I think it's great the way you guys say 'Car' ;D
You all sound half Irish :)

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Originally Posted by Grinch

I think it's great the way you guys say 'Car' ;D
You all sound half Irish :)

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I sometimes pahk the cah neah hahvahd yahd so I can grab some brews at the bah.;D

That's really how we sound...

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Originally Posted by PRIDE OF BOSTON

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Originally Posted by Andre

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Originally Posted by PRIDE OF BOSTON

It has been rather tough... Growing up as a upper middle class white kid in New England. ;D

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Cool, you must have an accent like Peter Griffin then?

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Actually Quahog is based off of the town I grew up in ;D It's Warwick RI

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Youre sounding cooler by the moment.

You have Peters voice,

You have Quagmires lifestyle.

And now your town is part of it all as well. :spongebob:

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Originally Posted by PRIDE OF BOSTON

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Originally Posted by Grinch

I think it's great the way you guys say 'Car' ;D
You all sound half Irish :)

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I sometimes pahk the cah neah hahvahd yahd so I can grab some brews at the bah.;D

That's really how we sound...

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and we get wicked hammahd on on Jaegahhh bombs and PBAHHH.

That party was pissah, but, now I'm dying from the hangova. I need drink from the bubblah and an extra lahge and from the Dunk.

Don't like the way we talk - Go fuck ya'self ya queahhs!!

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Originally Posted by RozzySean

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Originally Posted by PRIDE OF BOSTON

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Originally Posted by Grinch

I think it's great the way you guys say 'Car' ;D
You all sound half Irish :)

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I sometimes pahk the cah neah hahvahd yahd so I can grab some brews at the bah.;D

That's really how we sound...

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and we get wicked hammahd on on Jaegahhh bombs and PBAHHH.

That party was pissah, but, now I'm dying from the hangova. I need drink from the bubblah and an extra lahge and from the Dunk.

Don't like the way we talk - Go fuck ya'self ya queahhs!!

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Translation: We tend to get extensivly intoxicated on Jagermeister, Redbull and Pabst Blue Ribbon. That party was expremely agreeable, but now I seem to be suffering from a hangover. I need to have a drink from a water fountain and purchase an extra-large coffee from Dunkin Donuts. If you don't like the way we talk - Go fornicate yourself you homosexuals! ;D

When I was 11 we were vacationing at this place in Indiana. I was in the arcade, watching this one white kid playing 'Commando' (late 80s). The kid lost a man and his buddy said, "That game's a nigger." He turned and saw me standing there and said, "Sorry dude." I walked away. I wasn't about to get into a fight with two teenagers.

The other thing wasn't as overt (not that that was), but I was in a chicken place. Now I'm about 5'11", medium brown, slight build and a bear of a human being walked in just before me, dark-skinned. We look absolutely nothing alike. He ordered and waited. I'm waiting for two minutes before I ask if I can pay for my order when the white teen says something to the effect of, "We thought you were together." Other than us both probably having African heritage there was absolutely nothing indicating we had anything in common. I just passed it off as the stupidity of youth 'cause I wasn't about to pass up the food. It was just too good.

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Originally Posted by PRIDE OF BOSTON

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Originally Posted by PRIDE OF BOSTON

I sometimes pahk the cah neah hahvahd yahd so I can grab some brews at the bah.;D

That's really how we sound...

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and we get wicked hammahd on on Jaegahhh bombs and PBAHHH.

That party was pissah, but, now I'm dying from the hangova. I need drink from the bubblah and an extra lahge and from the Dunk.

Don't like the way we talk - Go fuck ya'self ya queahhs!!

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Translation: We tend to get extensivly intoxicated on Jagermeister, Redbull and Pabst Blue Ribbon. That party was expremely agreeable, but now I seem to be suffering from a hangover. I need to have a drink from a water fountain and purchase an extra-large coffee from Dunkin Donuts. If you don't like the way we talk - Go fornicate yourself you homosexuals! ;D

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My wife and I are constantly practicing our Kennedy impersonations. Erah-Ah'll go wait in th' cah.

My dad is Tanzanian and my mum is Welsh ..... I had 5 years as a kid in Tanzania with no problems, then we moved to South Africa. This was in the Apartheid years, so legal segregation was in force - We werent allowed to eat in the same restaurants, drink in the same bars, go to the same shops, use the same water fountains or even park benches. Their crazy system of race classification made us all totally different and mistreated. All legal and encouraged by redneck Dutch inbreds.

Left there and went to America ...... where it was just as bad. 'All men are created equal' my arse! Racism wasnt legal of course, but it wasnt even kept hidden and it was a common undercurrent in everything (even today, you dont see a lot of mixing - you get your white, black, asian grounps in shopping malls, but always separately. Wierd)

Left there and came to the UK ....... more integrated and racism was definitely the exception. Still, copped my unfair share at a pretty tough boarding school until I captained the boxing team in my very first year and fucked up anyone who looked at me funnny. Sad to say that the current recession and job/immigration fears mean that racism is on the rise here now.

So ... yes, I have experienced lots of racism.

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My dad is Tanzanian and my mum is Welsh ..... I had 5 years as a kid in Tanzania with no problems, then we moved to South Africa. This was in the Apartheid years, so legal segregation was in force - We werent allowed to eat in the same restaurants, drink in the same bars, go to the same shops, use the same water fountains or even park benches. Their crazy system of race classification made us all totally different and mistreated. All legal and encouraged by redneck Dutch inbreds.

Left there and went to America ...... where it was just as bad. 'All men are created equal' my arse! Racism wasnt legal of course, but it wasnt even kept hidden and it was a common undercurrent in everything (even today, you dont see a lot of mixing - you get your white, black, asian grounps in shopping malls, but always separately. Wierd)

Left there and came to the UK ....... more integrated and racism was definitely the exception. Still, copped my unfair share at a pretty tough boarding school until I captained the boxing team in my very first year and fucked up anyone who looked at me funnny. Sad to say that the current recession and job/immigration fears mean that racism is on the rise here now.

So ... yes, I have experienced lots of racism.

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Just curious, what did you come up against here in the States? I'm wondering what people said to you after they heard your accent.

I come from a place in England where we have a very thick accent and down in cosmopolitan London and the south in general I sound like a retard. When I first went to university it was stuffed with upper class posh people and British people will tell you that with the whole class thing over here they tend yo use their accent, background etc. as a social weapon, that their accent versus yours gives them a level of superiority over you and so on. Some of them are very nice people but the majority will be cliquy (sp) andpigeonhole you due to your accent.

Anyway I worked out the only way to beat these fuckers was to out-vocabulary them. To be able to express and articulate better than them, even in my crap accent. When you use it on them (not all of them, like I say some posh people are lovely) they look in disbelief like their dog started talking to them, but at the very least you can unsettle them and get on a level pegging or just continue to crush them if you feel like it. :)

By the time I left university I had it off to a fine art. And then my crap accent worked for me! I'd got a job with a bank and the human resources people heard me speak in my hideous foghorn backwards voice, realised they couldn't let this borderline retard near any of their posh customers and sent me off to the trading room with all the other savages, which worked out OK for me in the end.

As far as class goes, I actually got more of a class thing when I went to America, where you have a WASPy Ivy League clubbiness that's just like the British class system but with the added fact that you're a furriner. You can spot them easily, they all have a fucking initial for a name like N. Wilson Neueberger or George W. Bush. Imagine some fucker whose first name is N. :) Anyway that got my chippy northerner gene going and worked out OK for me too.

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Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing

I come from a place in England where we have a very thick accent and down in cosmopolitan London and the south in general I sound like a retard. When I first went to university it was stuffed with upper class posh people and British people will tell you that with the whole class thing over here they tend yo use their accent, background etc. as a social weapon, that their accent versus yours gives them a level of superiority over you and so on. Some of them are very nice people but the majority will be cliquy (sp) andpigeonhole you due to your accent.

Anyway I worked out the only way to beat these fuckers was to out-vocabulary them. To be able to express and articulate better than them, even in my crap accent. When you use it on them (not all of them, like I say some posh people are lovely) they look in disbelief like their dog started talking to them, but at the very least you can unsettle them and get on a level pegging or just continue to crush them if you feel like it. :)

By the time I left university I had it off to a fine art. And then my crap accent worked for me! I'd got a job with a bank and the human resources people heard me speak in my hideous foghorn backwards voice, realised they couldn't let this borderline retard near any of their posh customers and sent me off to the trading room with all the other savages, which worked out OK for me in the end.

As far as class goes, I actually got more of a class thing when I went to America, where you have a WASPy Ivy League clubbiness that's just like the British class system but with the added fact that you're a furriner. You can spot them easily, they all have a fucking initial for a name like N. Wilson Neueberger or George W. Bush. Imagine some fucker whose first name is N. :) Anyway that got my chippy northerner gene going and worked out OK for me too.

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I'm kind of surprised by that because in my experience we tend to be enamored of the British accent. Like you're built-in celebrities as soon as you step off the plane. You all just sound so... official. That's why your actors are always the ones chosen to play the people in period pieces, no matter what country is being depicted.

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I come from a place in England where we have a very thick accent and down in cosmopolitan London and the south in general I sound like a retard. When I first went to university it was stuffed with upper class posh people and British people will tell you that with the whole class thing over here they tend yo use their accent, background etc. as a social weapon, that their accent versus yours gives them a level of superiority over you and so on. Some of them are very nice people but the majority will be cliquy (sp) andpigeonhole you due to your accent.

Anyway I worked out the only way to beat these fuckers was to out-vocabulary them. To be able to express and articulate better than them, even in my crap accent. When you use it on them (not all of them, like I say some posh people are lovely) they look in disbelief like their dog started talking to them, but at the very least you can unsettle them and get on a level pegging or just continue to crush them if you feel like it. :)

By the time I left university I had it off to a fine art. And then my crap accent worked for me! I'd got a job with a bank and the human resources people heard me speak in my hideous foghorn backwards voice, realised they couldn't let this borderline retard near any of their posh customers and sent me off to the trading room with all the other savages, which worked out OK for me in the end.

As far as class goes, I actually got more of a class thing when I went to America, where you have a WASPy Ivy League clubbiness that's just like the British class system but with the added fact that you're a furriner. You can spot them easily, they all have a fucking initial for a name like N. Wilson Neueberger or George W. Bush. Imagine some fucker whose first name is N. :) Anyway that got my chippy northerner gene going and worked out OK for me too.

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I'm kind of surprised by that because in my experience we tend to be enamored of the British accent. Like you're built-in celebrities as soon as you step off the plane. You all just sound so... official. That's why your actors are always the ones chosen to play the people in period pieces, no matter what country is being depicted.

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It works well with women but it makes blokes competitive, they've got to try and get one over on you. :)

EDIT: and I don't sound official, I sound like the AC/DC singer after he's just finished a world tour. :)

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Originally Posted by Grinch

I used to hate ticking the ''Other'' box in the ethic background section on application forms. Mixed race wasn't an option till about 2001 :-\

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In the "ethnic origin" box I put "East African Plains Ape." Which is true, they can't argue with that.

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I come from a place in England where we have a very thick accent and down in cosmopolitan London and the south in general I sound like a retard. When I first went to university it was stuffed with upper class posh people and British people will tell you that with the whole class thing over here they tend yo use their accent, background etc. as a social weapon, that their accent versus yours gives them a level of superiority over you and so on. Some of them are very nice people but the majority will be cliquy (sp) andpigeonhole you due to your accent.

Anyway I worked out the only way to beat these fuckers was to out-vocabulary them. To be able to express and articulate better than them, even in my crap accent. When you use it on them (not all of them, like I say some posh people are lovely) they look in disbelief like their dog started talking to them, but at the very least you can unsettle them and get on a level pegging or just continue to crush them if you feel like it. :)

By the time I left university I had it off to a fine art. And then my crap accent worked for me! I'd got a job with a bank and the human resources people heard me speak in my hideous foghorn backwards voice, realised they couldn't let this borderline retard near any of their posh customers and sent me off to the trading room with all the other savages, which worked out OK for me in the end.

As far as class goes, I actually got more of a class thing when I went to America, where you have a WASPy Ivy League clubbiness that's just like the British class system but with the added fact that you're a furriner. You can spot them easily, they all have a fucking initial for a name like N. Wilson Neueberger or George W. Bush. Imagine some fucker whose first name is N. :) Anyway that got my chippy northerner gene going and worked out OK for me too.

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I'm kind of surprised by that because in my experience we tend to be enamored of the British accent. Like you're built-in celebrities as soon as you step off the plane. You all just sound so... official. That's why your actors are always the ones chosen to play the people in period pieces, no matter what country is being depicted.

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It works well with women but it makes blokes competitive, they've got to try and get one over on you. :)

EDIT: and I don't sound official, I sound like the AC/DC singer after he's just finished a world tour. :)

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I work in a call center and every now and then I get a Brit. Just yesterday I think a Scottish guy called. I wanted to ask the guy for his autograph.

....man you bastards complain alot ;)


People try and stereotype me on account of the way I talk everywhere I go. Right here in my home state people ask me if I'm from up north just because I say "On" instead of "Own" eg I say "turn ON the light" and most people here say "turn OWN the light" and if I go up north people figure I'm from a trailer park or something. It's really not that big of a deal.

And as for me being white, I never really have had much of an issue with it with people of other races or whatever. Everyone that is my friend is at heart a good person no matter what color they are, and they are all welcome in my house and at my dinner table, I really don't mind. But I also don't say "I must go out and get a Native American friend because I've never had a Native American friend"...I don't have a quota or anything.

Oh, but don't call me a Yankee....Yankees are the people on "Jersey Shore"

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....man you bastards complain alot ;)


People try and stereotype me on account of the way I talk everywhere I go. Right here in my home state people ask me if I'm from up north just because I say "On" instead of "Own" eg I say "turn ON the light" and most people here say "turn OWN the light" and if I go up north people figure I'm from a trailer park or something. It's really not that big of a deal.

And as for me being white, I never really have had much of an issue with it with people of other races or whatever. Everyone that is my friend is at heart a good person no matter what color they are, and they are all welcome in my house and at my dinner table, I really don't mind. But I also don't say "I must go out and get a Native American friend because I've never had a Native American friend"...I don't have a quota or anything.

Oh, but don't call me a Yankee....Yankees are the people on "Jersey Shore"

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http://thequickanddirtydirty.com/wp-...uidos_9885.jpg

.....I'm having to restrain myself from punching my computer screen. Thanks POB for giving everyone a visual example of what Yankees look like.

Here's how they act
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmLiryM-0Ys


....I do hate them, all of them

LOL, so true story... I live next to that kid Paulie D when I lived in Johnston... I lived in a condo and we parked in the same parking lot. Funny thing is that all my Rhode Island friends don't know who the hell he is but he flaunts himself as "Rhode Island's favorite DJ"... Really? I'm sure he thinks he's the most special boy in the world too... cuz his mommy says so.:LOLATYOU:

There's no helping them. I still can't believe they call themselves "guido's" and they are proud of it!!!

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I'm kind of surprised by that because in my experience we tend to be enamored of the British accent. Like you're built-in celebrities as soon as you step off the plane. You all just sound so... official. That's why your actors are always the ones chosen to play the people in period pieces, no matter what country is being depicted.

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It works well with women but it makes blokes competitive, they've got to try and get one over on you. :)

EDIT: and I don't sound official, I sound like the AC/DC singer after he's just finished a world tour. :)

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I work in a call center and every now and then I get a Brit. Just yesterday I think a Scottish guy called. I wanted to ask the guy for his autograph.

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To somebody tuned into American accents you might think a Scottish one sounds great till you get to meet them and you realise they're a bunch of oat-eating savages. :) Sorry Scottish people, but you are. :) :)

I like the New York accent on women, who all seemed to be really self-conscious about it until I told them I really liked it.

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To somebody tuned into American accents you might think a Scottish one sounds great till you get to meet them and you realise they're a bunch of oat-eating savages. :) Sorry Scottish people, but you are. :) :)

I like the New York accent on women, who all seemed to be really self-conscious about it until I told them I really liked it.

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.....may God help you....yankee women (especially New York and New Jersey) and their horrid grating nagging voices. It's like nails on a fucking chalkboard.

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To somebody tuned into American accents you might think a Scottish one sounds great till you get to meet them and you realise they're a bunch of oat-eating savages. :) Sorry Scottish people, but you are. :) :)

I like the New York accent on women, who all seemed to be really self-conscious about it until I told them I really liked it.

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.....may God help you....yankee women (especially New York and New Jersey) and their horrid grating nagging voices. It's like nails on a fucking chalkboard.

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I thought Fran Dresher's accent was pretty hot when I was a teenager.

When I was a waiter at Pizza Hut I had a Scottish family at one of my tables. They wanted some of the most disgusting crap I ever heard of on a pizza, but that's another story. But the father, a late fiftyish guy, called me over by saying 'boy'. I let it go because I figured he probably had no conception of it being a deragatory term used for black men and it wasn't like I could have done anything, anyway. But even still, without knowing that, it's a pretty crappy thing to call a grown man 'boy'.

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To somebody tuned into American accents you might think a Scottish one sounds great till you get to meet them and you realise they're a bunch of oat-eating savages. :) Sorry Scottish people, but you are. :) :)

I like the New York accent on women, who all seemed to be really self-conscious about it until I told them I really liked it.

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.....may God help you....yankee women (especially New York and New Jersey) and their horrid grating nagging voices. It's like nails on a fucking chalkboard.

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I thought Fran Dresher's accent was pretty hot when I was a teenager.

When I was a waiter at Pizza Hut I had a Scottish family at one of my tables. They wanted some of the most disgusting crap I ever heard of on a pizza, but that's another story. But the father, a late fiftyish guy, called me over by saying 'boy'. I let it go because I figured he probably had no conception of it being a deragatory term used for black men and it wasn't like I could have done anything, anyway. But even still, without knowing that, it's a pretty crappy thing to call a grown man 'boy'.

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I hear you... Regardless that's still unacceptable. I'm white but would still take a deal of offense even without the racial conotation. Fact is, we live in a civilized society where that's frowned apon... If I was called, "boy" that would definitly not have my jumping back to their table anytime soon. When addressing a person you don't know... Service being rendered or not... people should still be addressed with a certain level of respect. "Excuse me" or "When you get a second..." would sirfice. Regardless of where you're from, you're still part of the "western world" and should act accordingly. Anything otherwise shows a gross amount of ignorance. You don't need to be "cultured" to be polite. Period.

Yeah "boy" no matter who it's used on is meant to show the social ladder and "boy" is at the very bottom with "son" and "hey you".....hell sometimes people can use the word "sir" to piss you off. I was always taught to use it in a respectful manner but I guess policemen, restaurant managers, department store clerks, etc like using it to try and make themselves feel big and also to draw attention to themselves.

Funny how different countries say stuff that isnt except able in other ones but are in their own. We can say "Go and get fukked!" which is the same as "no way and people out here dont even blink at it!'

'Get fukked' is said in between the things that other people are telling you and its the same as going Ahh harr or Mmmm yeah.

"Ive just won tattslotto"..."Get fukked!"

See it also means - 'I haven't'....you lucky cunt.


So if you come here and someone says get fukked; smile its a funny couple of words.


Oh and fukk off, means, I dont belive you.


Piss off means piss off.

But .. Boy is never good, 'Hey you' isnt ever good. Son on the other hand can be slightly more endearing if said the right way,Its a term of endearment out here more than not, specially 'old son', son of bitch, well son, is sometimes short for well sunshine,It denotes Im older Ive been here longer; in other words listen up heres a favor im about to impart.

There are some males that Scottish man would have said 'boy' to who would instantly make him their boy.

(Its was coming for him, only a matter of time).

Fuhgeddaboutit :cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf0ZyoUn7Vk

I told my fiancee and friends I wanted to racially segregate our wedding.

They didn't really warm to it.

I was met with a mixed reception.

Growing up white in LA, I was called "white boy" in every possible variation. Pinche Wedo, Gringo, Cracka, sefid, bekkin something in korean, bute boy in tagalog. I forget the rest.

I was probably jumped maybe 3-4x strictly because I was white in a non-white dominated part of town.

I hate it all really. Race was a big issue growing up but and as a result I have friends from every single nationality and I can socialize with someone from any race. I learned to respect all cultures.