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Originally Posted by clavus
We didn't have that in the conservative, rural town where I grew up either.
Of course we didn't have any Mulims around. But the one Jewish guy in my school regularly got 18 kinds of shit.
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For me it was the flip side. I lived in a very liberal, blue collar suburb of Detroit. We had ONE black kid that went to school with us and I don't think most kids, literally, even realized he was black. Later in elementary school we had ONE Japanese girl start with us, too. The only reason I noticed she was different was because she was cute as hell. I guess my thing for Asian girls started early. The same trend even went through to high school. We had, to the best of my knowledge, ONE chinese girl as well. She was also VERY popular, and most people didn't even notice. I knew racism existed, but it wasn't until after college that I started to notice HOW prevelant it really was. I guess we were just lucky kids.
On that note, if I ever heard my son making racist comments, I think I'd lose my sanity on the spot. I have no reason to believe such a thing would occur, but man...