Have you ever been discriminated by someone else?

i haven't been discriminated about my race before but i've experienced something like it. i've been misunderstood to be someone else. i took action towards it but they're pretty much convinced that i'm really someone else. i felt this tremendous pressure inside. this happened at work and it was my first job. i didn't know that i can call discrimination when i'm being treated like that. i did some drastic measures: i got physical with one of my colleages and i ended up being fired. it wasn't the best decision but i think it's better than doing nothing at all. of course if i knew i can file discrimination against any of them, i should have. lol.

Yes, i do have such a horrible experience. It happened when i was pursuing my master's degree two years ago. You know, students are always in urgent need of money, so am i. I successfully found a job as a tutor teaching a senior middle school student on my friends' recommendation. You can imagine that i was full of passion and enthusiasm. But the result was quite against my expecation. The boy's mother, fearing that her son might fall in love me(i'm judged as a pretty girl), hinted to me several times that her son must concentrated on his studies and there must be nothing distracting him. Then i realized what the problem was and gave up that job. How ridiculous! I couldn't believe that i could ever be discriminated against all because of my appearance.

I am a call center agent before coming from the Philippines. We receive calls and we do have an opening spiel to greet them. And most of the time, if the customer hinted that he/she is talking to a Filipina, they ended hanging up the phone. There are times as well that they would ask if I am a Filipina just to make sure to whom they are talking and if they learned I am, they would say nasty things about Filipino and would say they would not want to talk to someone coming from the Philippines. They even shout at you and would curse you all the fu_king words they know. Most of my office-mates have experience this kind of situation. I just don't know how to deal with them. Why they are so pissed with our race. One incident that I remember was when someone told me that maybe because they experience a not so good situation with Filipinos and other think that we are getting the jobs that are supposed for them. My thought was, it's not our fault if we get the jobs that are supposed for them. The companies abroad are the one hiring Filipino's to work for them. Who are we to turn down the offers? Who doesn't want a job? I don't think it's fair for them to hate us.

Yes, many times. I am discriminated for being poor. I am discriminated for belonging to the cultural minority in my country. Yes, I am not ashamed to tell you frankly that I belong to a cultural minority group of people in my country. But I am proud to say that my tribe belongs to a group of people who has built one of the wonders of the world. Besides, we are not anymore in the lower rank of the society because most of us are educated and are living just like the other people around the world. Being discriminated is not pleasant. It's very annoying and you can be too affected if you take it seriously. Now that time has changed, things changed too and people around me are friendlier and good.

I don't think that there is a person alive that can honestly say that they've never been discriminated against. I have been more than my fair share in my life. The first time that I ever remember being discriminated against when I was a child is when I broke my leg and was considered disabled for a time. My physical education teacher took to calling me Hop Along for the rest of my years in that school. Now, it is more about the fact that I'm not as pretty, not as skinny, not as . . . as other mothers that I know.

yes well many people do discriminate me but i just let them do their thing cause for me it's just what they think about me and i never let them to be such a distraction for me cause maybe i think it's just purely negative thing

I am discriminated against all of the time because I am a single mother with two children. It does not matter that I am educated, clean, make decent money or anything else. People learn I am a single mother and suddenly I'm "white trash" or that I'm on welfare - which I'm not. People should just learn to take the time to get to know a person based on their individual characteristics instead of race, religion or anything else.

yes. I have. I am a Chinese. I was called smart-alerk by some people in my high school just because I have the highest grade in the school and I dont talk much. I was also called the little black boy because I was too good at basketball, and made the other team's coach mad which i think is funny

Yes, by age and race. I've taught math in adult education and so convinced my boss of my intelligence and abilities, that he made me Head of the Math Department at a school in Detroit. That was in 1989. To be honest, I'm used to people seeing what I can do and giving me special work because they knew I could get it done. When I came back to Ohio I worked different jobs, some of them way beneath me. As I write for publication I've had to work menial jobs just to get by (and to keep in shape physically.) Just recently as I worked at the amusment park. There, I've had two immediate supervisors try to get me a managerial position. I've seen young workers get managerial positions over me and they didn't have a clue about what they should be doing. One girl, who had been given a managerial position, hadn't even graduated from GED school yet and I had to show her how to do some things. We've had a lot of foreign (Asian and European) students work at the park and they've always shown me respect, coming to me as if I were a supervisor. One girl from the Ukraine now is either a lawyer or Astrophysicist and when she worked here, she treated me like I was a supervisor and always came to me to see what to do instead of asking the supervisors. In this part of Ohio where I live, it is very conservative and racist. As I faced discrimination at the park, I didn't want to go to the NAACP and knew that being prolific and persistent with my writing career would bring me success. Plus, as a Christian I learned that straying from God's protection makes you vulnerable to evil. So I know that people will be discriminated against for many reasons and that when you get discriminated against, I think you should work harder at whatever your strengths are so you don't have to face that discrimination again. I feel that your religion (whatever it is although I speak from a Christian standpoint) should help you get past the discrimination because those who discriminate will pay for their evil.

Always discriminated actually as a lady driver. Whenever I park slowly, or when I try to leave the parking area and find too many cars (or tricycles), of course I'll do it carefully so as not to hit any other vehicle. With that, a tricycle driver will definitely comment loudly- "The driver is a LADY!" As if telling everybody around that I AM SO SOOOO SLOW because I'm a female. I don't really think I'm that slow but they make me feel I take ages before I can finish parking or before I can leave the parking area. Sometimes I really feel like shouting back - "SO WHAT???!!" (But of course I wouldn't want to start a fight with a man. lol) One thing I can be proud of, aside from the very first time I started driving a car (more than 8 yrs now), I haven't had any accident yet. The only time I had an accident was the first time I drove the car by myself (and my husband did not know it 'coz it was just a small dent at the back.. hehehe) because I thought I can already do it without his supervision and that served as my lesson. 'Never used the car anymore until I already had enough confidence, and never encountered any more accident from then on. :)