Discrimination...

[Vi Mazzella 4]

Hey guys.

I will like to know if you had some bad experience with discrimination in this country, I'm a latina living and working in NYC, specifically in the Upper East Side and if you are not familiar with NYC this is one of the richest areas of Manhattan.. The population is mostly white and jewish and honestly there are just a few latinos living there so if they see a latina they assume that we are cleaning people or nannies. I'm not against those jobs and the people that perform those activities is just that upsets me the fact that they get surprised when I tell them that I went to school (Peru) and had a very decent life. They think that 'cause we are latinos we are all here ilegally, NO!!!! I COULD BE LIVING IN MY COUNTRY BUT I FELT IN LOVE WITH A WONDERFUL MAN AND HE'S THE REASON WHY I'M HERE.

Vi

[broma25 2]

You dont have to be a latino for people to think you came from a country that does not have what america has to offer.

[Kez/JWolf 6]

Agreed.... I have been told I should go back to Scotland and stop taking good jobs from American people.... I was also asked how long it took me to learn English after I arrived!!!!!!

Kez

[alone 0]

There are just so many ignorant and close-minded people out there....

[Niels Bohr 72]

When my family moved to the United States, we have suffered from a lot of racism. The Europeans (those who lived here for generations, avoiding the collective term white) perceive us as cheap, thugs, grass eaters, dog eaters, and they also love to vandalize our property. Over the years, the occurrence of these incidents decreased. However, there are still remnants and residuals of these racism surviving in the streets.

Keep a low profile of yourself. That is just a recommendation. Try to blend it with the Americans. For example, when talking to someone use English instead of your native tongue. I always do that. Even when I speak to someone fluent in my tongue, I always use English as much as possible so that I wouldn't make onlookers (those who walk by) thinks I'm saying negative things about people.

[Anna C. 4]

Agreed.... I have been told I should go back to Scotland and stop taking good jobs from American people.... I was also asked how long it took me to learn English after I arrived!!!!!!

Kez

OMG, some people just amaze me with their ignorance. I recently was asked if Germany isn't that country in Africa right next to Egypt and why I was white then?!?!

[Together4ever 1]

Right after my husband arrived from Egypt, he snagged a job at a movie theater near our home. He requested they put "Moh" on his name tag because he was afraid of people seeing "Mohammed". Well, they printed "Mohammed" on his name tag anyway and one night, as he was taking tickets, a teenaged girl and her boyfriend walked to him with their tickets. The girl read his tag, "Mohammed? Oh my god! Are you going to blow up the theater?" Then she just squealed with laughter thinking it was the wittiest thing she'd ever said.

My husband has also had many Mexicans here confuse him for Mexican. He was in line at the grocery store and two Mexican men started talking to him in their native tongue. Mohammed told them "I'm sorry. I don't understand you." One of the guys became very irrate and accused him in English of being ashamed of his native tongue and being less of a man, and blah blah blah. Mohammed told him "Dude! I'm Egyptian!"

Never and end to it I guess.

[akdiver 3]

Then she just squealed with laughter thinking it was the wittiest thing she'd ever said.

There's a good chance that it was.

[Alex+R 0]

Agreed.... I have been told I should go back to Scotland and stop taking good jobs from American people.... I was also asked how long it took me to learn English after I arrived!!!!!!

Kez

OMG, some people just amaze me with their ignorance. I recently was asked if Germany isn't that country in Africa right next to Egypt and why I was white then?!?!

No way. Seriously!?

[broma25 2]

Its a shame that more Americans dont get out to other countries....they really are missing so much.

[TracyTN 237]

Yep - but don't let a few bad (ignorant) apples spoil the lot.

[KarenCee 3]

Yet here...in the neighbouring city that is the closest major source of employment most of the jobs require their applicants to be bi-lingual. Gainesville GA., also known as poultry capital of the world, employs thousands of latinos and latinas. Who cannot speak english. Which is why everyone else has to learn spanish. Which knocks many well qualified applicants out of a job if they are NOT bi-lingual. How fair is that?

Isn't that a form of discrimination?

[Anna C. 4]

Agreed.... I have been told I should go back to Scotland and stop taking good jobs from American people.... I was also asked how long it took me to learn English after I arrived!!!!!!

Kez

OMG, some people just amaze me with their ignorance. I recently was asked if Germany isn't that country in Africa right next to Egypt and why I was white then?!?!

No way. Seriously!?

Really! I didn't know if I should laugh out loud or be all shocked, well, mean as I am I started to laugh. It was just the most absurd thing ever. Anyway, I've seen really ignorant people on German TV as well (those shows when they show reaallllyyyy ignorant people and everybody just laughes about the bs they say). I guess they are just everywhere!!!

[simple_male 1]

Discrimination does exist in some people's mind. Some people treat others differently as soon as they find out that their English accent is not American. But most of the American are good.

Hey guys.

I will like to know if you had some bad experience with discrimination in this country, I'm a latina living and working in NYC, specifically in the Upper East Side and if you are not familiar with NYC this is one of the richest areas of Manhattan.. The population is mostly white and jewish and honestly there are just a few latinos living there so if they see a latina they assume that we are cleaning people or nannies. I'm not against those jobs and the people that perform those activities is just that upsets me the fact that they get surprised when I tell them that I went to school (Peru) and had a very decent life. They think that 'cause we are latinos we are all here ilegally, NO!!!! I COULD BE LIVING IN MY COUNTRY BUT I FELT IN LOVE WITH A WONDERFUL MAN AND HE'S THE REASON WHY I'M HERE.

Vi

[athena_ny 1]

I got 20 questions at Amscot when they wouldn't give my husband a money order b/c he hasn't gotten his SSN yet (greencard has not yet arrived) about what the money was for.

Yeah, that's not their policy and it's none of their business where 800 dollars is going. It wasn't even that much money, and as much as we generally don't blame it on race, this time I'm pretty convinced it was because my husband is brown.

Idiots.