djadonis206 wrote:I saw that special about seperating the kids with the different eye colors
Honestly, I'm scared - I must have floated through like ignorantly but now, I'm scared
because I thought our generation and the kids we're having would be just that much more tolerant but...obviously my fiances white and seriously, I know I joke about leaving America but I honestly think if I want my kids to have a good bringing up we'll move to a country like Spain, or somewhere in South America, possibly Moracco or somewhere advanced in Africa and then send them back to the US to go to university. It's a real major consideration...
America is cool but it really has some major issues it needs to work out as far as human relations
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you know this is where Australia is one of the great ironies of the world - arguably BECAUSE Australia had a "white australia" policy (as fucked up as that is) up until the 1950s it's actually meant that my generation has grown up with almost no racial tension at all (well some in some parts of sydney or Melbourne might see it different - but speaking for the smaller town where I'm from) and as a result of that my generation seems to have little concept of real racism - in fact the 1st time I ever heard the word "nigger" in real use was in the London Borough of Bromley and it sounded worse than the C word to me, the only time I'd ever heard it before that was in hip hop and that was a whole different thing, that + the influx of black american music, films, comedy etc etc meant that my generation growing up had only a positive outlook between black and white
of course it's a strange control group because you cant measure racial tension in an area where there is no real mix, but it has to be a good thing that all those people of my age are now adults all over the world and have no ingrained problems with anyone based on race - like i said strange, harsh irony that it was arguably the fact that there was no mix that raised us that way
and you will find that alot in Australia
an interesting contrast is that in the same place I was on a bus once when the bus driver maybe in his 50s deliberately drove past a black guy at a bus stop - but I and everyone I told was shocked, but it shows his generation still had it in them
In inner London it seems to be very integrated - almost all my cousin who grew up in Camberwell's friends are black and alot of people there seem to be totally comfortable with the racial mix, but if you move out a bit to where alot of the "old school" moved to (like the boroughs and home counties) then there is quite often an underlying seething resentment in the more working class people who feel in some way their lives are not what they could be and blame it on the huge swathe of immigrants that have moved into Britain since the war.
It's a double edged sword, and really, you'll probably find the same reason you feel freaked about that is the same thing Gay people, or even Liberals are freaked out by around these types of people
some people are just nasty
