How Do You Deal With Discrimination?

Discrimination is one of the worst poisons in society. Being hurt by somebody for no justified reason whatsoever. I think that people that are discriminating are doing it just so that they will feel better about themselves by diminishing others. I have been discriminated far too many times because of my nationality. I live on "enemy territory" and I have to cope with it very often by people that do not even know me. How do I cope with it? I just ignore it. Because I know no matter what they say I am a better than them. At least I do not engage in moronic discriminations. They are not people that I care about, so their opinion does not concern me.

As long as prejudice is there along with variation of cultures, discrimination will never die.

Well the story you just told reminded me of something that happens often to me and to many people.You would get into an expensive store and you would say can I try this out or anything like and the seller would say do you know much is it first? That is really offensive I think I have eyes to real the label and You don't have the right to judge if I can afford it or no!

When it is aimed at me and it often is, I try to find humor in it. If I am very insulted, I tend to ignore it. When it is someone else tho...I can get pretty vocal. I speak my mind on it in a very respectful way. It tells me so much about a person's intelligence. Discrimination is ignorant and I try hard not to discriminate against the ignorant as well. I speak my thoughts but they are entitled to theirs as well.

When I encounter discrimination I fight it. There was an lady at my workplace who was an immigrant from one of the African countries and her workplace was trying to make her quit by making many racist slurs along with monkey jokes. Then they tried to sack her. At the time I was the voluntary union rep for my workplace and she came to me for help. This was a clear case of racial discrimination and at first the employer backed the woman's manager saying that the manager had every right to terminate the woman in question. I threatened the employer with a case of racist discrimination before the equal opportunity tribunal and when they looked into it and realised they could lose they agreed that she could keep her job and they found a new office for her to work in. This particular manager was nasty and there were several cases after this of her abusing her staff and in the end it was the manager that was forced to quit.

I have been discrimated many times n my 4 years here in the United States. Asians look really differently fromAmericans. But we Filipinos,look more like Hispanics. Most of my experiences are in Walmart and shopping centers. As we all know there are lots of Hispanics in the US mostly are Mexicans. Some of them actually couldnt speak English , there are some that can speak a little and there are some that are really fluent espcially the ones that have been in the US for a long time. The situation will be like this: A local will be standing before you on the line and the cashier will greet him/her or will share some stories even if they dont know each other. then when it was already my turn, she wouldnt even speak to me and wouldnt even look at me. Maybe she thought I couldnt speak English or maybe I wouldnt be able to undertsand her. But that's not the point. Every person needs to be respected , wherever place/country the person came from. Everybody can respond or can undertsand a simple hello or how are you today. Now here is the sad part, after I paid, another local was behind me. The cashier spoke to her and again shared some stories. isnt it too discriminating? I was actually about to speak to any of those cashier and tell them hey i can speak english. but havent done that . i just feel its a waste of time. They just dont deserve to be spoken to. In my school where I worked for 3 years, I earned respect from my bosses and colleagues. My friends there would always tell me, me and my good english. dont get me wrong, i m not bragging, its just that they know that i communicate well. these are educated people and they know how to respect people from other countries. People from the places mentioned above, just cant understand that . Now i still experience that. But who cares. I know they are wrong and its their loss not mine. Sometimes I tell my friends, lets not speak in our language, speak in english so these people would know that they dont have to discriminate us.

I hate to be Discriminate. But its always happen. I also experienced same as your professor. But I never complain. Yeah, sometime I just protest. Specially when the points is about Gender. I have zero tolarence on that issue.