How does racism improve your quality of life?
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Racism makes you hateful and angry. That makes you miserable and unhappy. Everything that goes wrong in your life is due to the existence Blacks, Latinos, Jews or whatever, so you transfer the cause of your problems to them. That way you can neither improve yourself nor solve your problems. Oh! you will boast and declare your pride of the purity of your race but this will not put food on your table neither make you happy or a better person. The only positive thing in being a racist is that the rest of us can make fun of you and call you names an d kick your ass every now and then.
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Racist and Racism has been used so friviously it has little or no impact anymore.\n\nPeople who have been raised and taught to live by the Victim mentality have abused the usage of the words to the point they are meaningless.\n\nWhen you won't accept any responsibility for yourself, you have to blame someone eles for your failures. Racism became the easy mantra to use.\n\nJesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, 3 well known Congresswomen, and many others have abused it into meaninglessness.\n\nTo me the racism is when your own say thing like your turning white by getting a good education and wanting to be sucessful.\n\nQuit listening to the self proclaimed leaders of yours or any racial group. The Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons of the world. Listen and follow the real leaders like the Colin Powells, Condy Rices, Bill Cosbys of this world and you will find it is not racism holding  you back. What was holding you back were the people telling you that your always a victim of racism.
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Racism will always be around but in a more subtle way
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Actually, I think they have the best of opportunity.  They have more federal funding, scholorships and such available due to being a minority.  Racism is not as big of a thing anymore.  People who dwell of racism are those who create it by complaining about something that happened so long ago it isn't even funny.  Its like me going into a party and bitching about the hostess serving peanutbutter when she knows I am allergic and claiming that she is not considering me and then wondering why everyone in there thinks I am a whinner.  \n\nIf you seperate yourself by complaining and coming up with new ideas to seperate yourself (colleges, clubs, scholorships, TV stations, etc for only minorities) then guess what?  You will be seperasted and treated different.  Its that simple.
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of course it does. if you are around positve people then your outlook on life will be be good therefore your quality of life will be better.\n\nnegative people would cause you to have a poor outlook and poor quality of life.
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of course racism is still alive. your love must be stronger than others because you have an extra obstacle most couples don't hve to face. best of luck and keep your head up. great question :)
677317
Based on the lack of information you've provided, it's impossible to offer you any insight into why life is so hard for you. As for taking insults and mockery from both your white and black friends, this is driven by their own insecurities in who they are and possibly even they're jealousy of who you are. You should just be yourself with respect to that. As for making life not so hard, I would be better able to give you advice and suggestion if I knew more about your circumstances at present.
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Opt out of racism.\nNo one can challenge you.
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I was always taught from the medical perspective that "quality of life" means to be productive. think about life what do we do to live? we eat, drink, walk, talk, work, sing, dance,etc..... if there are things that we take part in, and at some point in time one of these things we enjoy and probably have taken for granted are ripped away from us then we don't have the same quality of life that we had before. Example if this person accepts the job for more money, but less time with children has he or she improved quality of life? well if the person would rather provide for his or her children financially and doesn't mind not seeing them as much then his/her quality of life is improved do to self esteem in being a provider. if this person accepts and it means spending time away from family and it causes problems and/or the person would rather be with family then working OT then the quality of life has decreased do to seperation of family. Therefore I quess the quality of life if given the opportunity is to do things that make us happy and if quality of life changes without our control try to make the best of the situation.
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haha too true...but some things are better than they used to be...\n-racism has lessened\n-better technology(well that can be looked at in multiple ways)\n\nok so im having trouble thinking of things\n\nits pretty screwed up
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Racism is hatred of a group of people because they are of a certain race, nationality, or creed.\n\nIts bad because you are hating someone because of something they cannot change or have no control over.  It would be like people hating you for having blue eyes, or for having freckles.\n\nIf youre in doubt if feeling a certain way about someone is bad, put yourself in their shoes for a moment.  If you dont like people thinking of you like you think of other people, thats a good sign that what youre feeling toward them is bad.
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Yes, you'd like to think of them as criminals rather than just people looking for any kind of work.  I'm sure it makes your racism that much more comfortable.
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I agree. We, as people, waste so much time stereotyping, judging, and even hating other for their heritage. Just think if we, as a society, embraced one anothers cultures and found commonalities what we could do. We'd have so much more fun! We'd solve more important problems in the world if most of us weren't focused so much on race and ethnicity. We fix our political policies such that everyone we be treated fairly. In short, Racism definitely hinders our progress as a society.
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Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another. Discrimination is an action based on one's racist beliefs. Prejudice is a preconceived notion held about another race. I'm sorry you are being affected adversely because you are different. I share your pain and anger. The best you can do is to rise above the ignorance and culture, educate yourself, and set the example for others to follow.
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There is one thing I believe. Whether you look down your nose at a different race or you over-act, they are both forms of racism. A person is not a racist when he/she acts totally normal around all sorts of people. If you force yourself to be down, you are bordering on racism because you might make people feel uncomfortable and that's what racism is.
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If we are minorities, it affects us deeply and personally.  As long as racism still exists, minorities may feel insecure.  \n\nThere is a problem with the way a lot of societies handle racism.  Affirmative action unfortunately may lead to a worse condition for minorities, instead of an improved condition.  This is because if it is easier for a minority to get a job, then the minority will not work as hard or study as hard to be qualified for that job.  And this perpetuates negative opinions of co-workers and society.  On the other hand, we do need to do something to ensure that minorities who ARE qualified do not get discriminated against.  It is a tough situation, but I don't think affirmative action is the answer.\n\nI know that as a member of the "majority" I sometimes tend to feel that minorities see racism where it is not.  However, when I think about it, I understand this entirely.  I do not see firsthand the racism as a majority, so I cannot possibly understand how many different ways racism - even "subtle" - may affect the minority.  Also, I can understand how such racism, subtle and gross, can lead to a fear of racism where it really may not exist.\n\nBut sadly, it DOES exist, and as a majority member of my culture, it affects me in a unique way.  I tend to go out of my way to make minorities feel welcome and comfortable.  I feel so sorry for them that some people don't accept them that I just really go out of my way to be friendly and accepting of them.  I don't mean to do this necessarily, it is just my natural reaction!  \n\nAnd this is probably unique to me, but I often actually feel way more free to be myself around minorities.  This is because I never feel like I "fit in" with what is popular.  I always find myself not liking the latest fads, having different tastes, and this makes me feel kinda strange.  I just feel so weird among my peers.  But when I am with a minority, I feel like I can be myself.  I am not sure why this is.  I guess because when I am with minorities, the diversity is obvious, and therefore my own diversity doesn't stick out as something "weird" but instead as just another element in the diversity!
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Your english is fine. Far better than my spanish.\n\nYes, racism and ignorance is a problem in most countries in the world, including the US.\n\nIs it worse there than others? I don't know, I'm Canadian.\n\nI suspect the problem is more of one of distribution of wealth than simply race. It is a sad truth that even in a world with no racism, its easier for the poor to stay poor and the rich richer. Say you have 3000,000 people who used to be slaves and you free them but give them no money whatsoever. Even if the world is not racist, how likely is it that many generations later those peope are still poorer than those who actually were not put in the said situation? Once you factor in racism, the situation gets worse but, well you know.\n\nObviously there is racism in the US. Is it really the only problem that causes the symptoms one sees? I wonder. If only the world could be a simple place but it isn't. It is not black and white but more grey.