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

[Zilla]

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.

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.

[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.

[Zilla]

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.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

[Zilla]

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.

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.

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.

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.

[Kirkland Laing]

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.

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.

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.

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.

[El Kabong]

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.

.....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.

[El Kabong]

....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"

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

....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"

[El Kabong]

.....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

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

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.

[El Kabong]

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