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Originally Posted by xepherys
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...
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Similar situation where I grew up. The ONE black kind in my class was a quiet, smart guy. Everybody was cool to him. He was Homecomming King. The ONE Mexican guy in my class (in the whole school, I think) was a dipshit jock who took Spanish 1 and got a C. His fellow jocks called him "Taco" and "Wetback", but nobody said called him names with any real malice.. The Asian guy a year older than me and the asian guy two years younger than me - they were both teased for being Chinese.
The only minority we had in any numbers were the Indians (Native Americans.) Nobody gave them shit, but by the time freshman year was over, they weren't around to give shit to anyway. They were all either in jail, in continuation school or dropouts.
So based on my experience, in the far northernmost reaches of NorCal, you're OK if you are Mexican or black, but you will get a lot of shit for being jewish or asian. Oh, and if you are a Native American, your life is going to suck, but you won't have to worry about kids calling you names.