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Originally Posted by Incognitas
Anyone want a refill?
Sigh! I just wonder where this everybody who is white is superior tosh actually came from?Who was the pillock who woke up one day and decided that anyone with a different colour skin was evil and not actually human?
After all there were times in this country when people of colour were not so regarded.They were rare but not despised.
I guess it was when we as a country got into slavery as a trade..However we actually managed to grow up over that issue.Why is it that people keep dragging us back to the 17th and 18th centuries attitudes?
I remember as a child that the children of other white colonists were so awful to the Nigerians.My father wouldn't allow that sort of attitude though because he actually was interested in the people he was treating and inoculating for disease as people.So it is a learned behaviour in my opinion.Parents are teaching their children these attitudes.
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Growing up in Mozambique was pretty similar. The majority of white/asian portuguese and the asians from India treated the blacks extremely badly. Our household was one where our black workers joined us at dinner, my dad actually listened to their opinions and paid them decent wages.
I think you have hit the nail on the head when you say parents are teaching children such attitudes. When you hear a seven year old swearing or calling an asian/black person (and even the other way round) an effiing this and that, then that behaviour in the majority of cases is picked up from home.
Kids tend to learn their respect from what goes on at home, and its such a shame that nowadays most of what a lot of kids are learning at home is extremely poor.