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Originally posted by Great Scott
I dunno I supposed I am used to it. Dad is a scond generation American with roots in Eastern Europe and Mom is from Ecuador. I grew up a mixed child. The wife is Finnish, and while not exactly blond haried and blue-eyed we do stand out a bit as looking kinda different. Of course we are in Finland which is one of the most closet racist places I have ever been to. We get some stares and dirty looks, but after awhile you just get used to it. In NYC no one looks twice.
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Wow! Tell me more about closet racism in Finland. My girlfriend lived there briefly and she talked about it a little.
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Originally posted by legolas
Yea I guess I'll just add in this topic that I didn't used to see colors at all. In 9th grade I would have to think to tell you who is white, black, or anything else. Then one of my friends brought up how he is the only black person that sat at our table. I tried to tell him that I don't see colors and he just kept going on about it. After years of everyone mentioning and refering to race, I notice it now and it's sad.
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Sociologists have noted for a long time that children of different ethnicities in kindergarten and early elementary school are more than willing to play together. It's in junior high that they start breaking off into social cliques, and it's then that race really begins to divide people up...
Such a social construct, and anyone who tells you otherwise is ill-informed.
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Originally posted by onetime2
Thankfully her eye is almost back to 100% with just a little dilation and some slight double vision which is expected to go away in the coming months.
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Good luck to you both, amigo. Tough situation to be in, social misunderstanding or not.