Are you racist?

[Calandale]

I hate the human race

Why be so limited?

[The_P]

I hate the human race

Welcome to the club of misanthropy!

[renaeden]

I was teased a lot when I was younger for having red hair and pale skin. Is this a form of racism?

[Peter]

Perhaps it's from having them as friends that these people come to realise that the stereotypes have truth in them, and that there are good reasons to be prejudiced against certain groups.  I have Swedish friends who know from first-hand experience that the local Gypsies really do shoplift at the drop of a hat (they have some sort of pouch in those big skirts that they can drop things into), and that the Middle-Eastern, Russian and eastern European immigrants really do form violent criminal gangs (but they're friends with them, and are thus protected).

Well I'm Swedish and I say that my local Gypsies OWNS a shop (they always have a large sale  ), and Middle-Eastern immigrants are known for their big hearts and hospitality (I love going home to my Middle-Eastern friends!), the russians I know have a thing for drinking and making everyone laugh by telling bad jokes (And then they get laugh attacks which is almost impossible to stop!) and Eastern Europeans usually end up as goth and emo (nothing wrong with them really, well, at least not with the goth). Altough a few of them might be in gangs, I know more inbred Swedish guys that's in gangs.

Perhaps it's because they live in one of Sweden's major slum areas that their experiences are less than stellar.  They told me about an incident a while back where they saw a bunch of Syrians on motorbikes tasering a guy for fun, and they regarded it as normal.

[The_P]

I was teased a lot when I was younger for having red hair and pale skin. Is this a form of racism?

If you have red hair and pale skin, you're a prime target for abuse. Though I wouldn't call it racism, just pettiness.

I remember hearing about a neighbourhood who picked on a family just because the children all have red hair. And guess what? It took place in Eng-er-land, as per usual.

[Fritz the Cat]

Well I'm Swedish and I say that my local Gypsies OWNS a shop (they always have a large sale  ), and Middle-Eastern immigrants are known for their big hearts and hospitality (I love going home to my Middle-Eastern friends!), the russians I know have a thing for drinking and making everyone laugh by telling bad jokes (And then they get laugh attacks which is almost impossible to stop!) and Eastern Europeans usually end up as goth and emo (nothing wrong with them really, well, at least not with the goth). Altough a few of them might be in gangs, I know more inbred Swedish guys that's in gangs.

Perhaps it's because they live in one of Sweden's major slum areas that their experiences are less than stellar.  They told me about an incident a while back where they saw a bunch of Syrians on motorbikes tasering a guy for fun, and they regarded it as normal.

I've lived on the countryside, I've lived in the city and I've lived in the slum, and I've never experienced something like that (just white people harassing immegrants and their bitches and gangfights.).

[enronh]

I was teased a lot when I was younger for having red hair and pale skin. Is this a form of racism?

Stout swilling.

[renaeden]

I was teased a lot when I was younger for having red hair and pale skin. Is this a form of racism?

If you have red hair and pale skin, you're a prime target for abuse. Though I wouldn't call it racism, just pettiness.

I remember hearing about a neighbourhood who picked on a family just because the children all have red hair. And guess what? It took place in Eng-er-land, as per usual.

Now that is petty.
I have seen dark people picked on for their skin colour. And I was picked on for mine.When I was a kid it really sucked. Red hair, freckles, pale skin, glasses, short, autistic....no wonder I was picked on.

You can blame the fuckin' Irish for that Renaeden. Stout swilling feckless gobsheens the lot of them!!

Does this mean that Ireland is where red hair is from? Someone told me it is a Scottish trait and I have been asked if my parents are from Scotland. They aren't.

[SovaNu]

you're lucky. i'm naturally fricken tan it's annoying. there are no paling salons where i could go get rid of it, so i have to sit in front of a computer all day long and never go outside and even then i'm normal complexion, not pale.

[renaeden]

I would love to be tanned. I am in the worst place in the world to have pale skin. I can burn in fifteen minutes in July!
I tried to tan myself when I was younger thinking it would work. Because of my stupidity, I am waiting for skin cancer.

Tanned skin looks clear, blemish free.

[SovaNu]

i need paleness for my goth look.

you should move to ireland. gentle weather.

[Soph]

i am pale apparently, but i prefer being pale
sophie was the same

[enronh]

I was teased a lot when I was younger for having red hair and pale skin. Is this a form of racism?

If you have red hair and pale skin, you're a prime target for abuse. Though I wouldn't call it racism, just pettiness.

I remember hearing about a neighbourhood who picked on a family just because the children all have red hair. And guess what? It took place in Eng-er-land, as per usual.

Now that is petty.
I have seen dark people picked on for their skin colour. And I was picked on for mine.When I was a kid it really sucked. Red hair, freckles, pale skin, glasses, short, autistic....no wonder I was picked on.

You can blame the fuckin' Irish for that Renaeden. Stout swilling feckless gobsheens the lot of them!!

Does this mean that Ireland is where red hair is from? Someone told me it is a Scottish trait and I have been asked if my parents are from Scotland. They aren't.

Today, red hair is most commonly found at the western fringes of Europe. It is associated particularly with those in Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and less so in England although there are pockets of red hair occurring in Cornwall and parts of the North Midlands and North East (particularly South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire). This matches the movement of the Brython tribe (native Britons, also known as Celts or Picts) as they were pushed out of England and into the Celtic regions by the Roman conquest of Britain, and also the pattern of Viking settlement in the North of England.

Scotland has the highest proportion of redheads in the world as 13 percent of the population has red hair and approximately 40 percent carries the recessive redhead gene.[6] Ireland has the second highest number of redheads worldwide; as many as 10 percent of the Irish population have ginger, auburn (red-brown) or strawberry blond hair.[7] It is thought that up to 46 percent of the Irish population carries the recessive redhead gene. Red hair reaches frequencies of up to 10 percent in Wales.[8] In England, the county of Cornwall,the far north, near the Scottish border, and the counties of Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire also have significant proportions of redheads

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair     

[renaeden]

Thank you very much for that information Rupert!

My family can be traced back to Wales and Ireland.

[Alex179]

My grandmother had red hair and he name was Claire.   Her nickname was Eclair lol.   Obviously she was on the Irish side of my family (my aunt Lorraine has red hair too).