Experiencing racism: what would you have done?

That sort of thing has happened to me lots of times. I'm Swedish but I live in Rome where racism is literally on the order of the day. People tell me 'go home you foreign slut' and the like on an average once a week (normally on the bus).

When I first came here I had an Italian boyfriend and we both had to deal with verbal aggressions of the kind you described. Once a Swiss man in a wheelchair came up and said that I was wasting my blonde genes on a dark skinned punk and did I want my children to have bushy hair? Another time an old woman came up and said that I was a 'viper woman' who would be the end of the Italian race, and she reminded my boyfriend of their nation's proud traditions etc.

In some countries racism isn't taken seriously. I know that here in Italy, there's now a black minister who is trying to deal with such issues but on an everyday basis it's still ok to be racist here and people persecute the gypsies without the least sense of shame.

Most of the time I just laugh it off, because it happens so often that I don't want to waste any energy. But a few times I got angry and a few times I asked the racist about the way they were thinking...

I can't believe that happened to you!

What a rude, closed up man! I can't believe there are still people like that in Korea. Wowww..

I'm Korean and obviously there's racism here in America, but I know no one that would push it as far as that. Maybe it's because of the nice circle of Korean friends I've had in the past, but I know no Korean that would behave like that towards people they don't even know!!

If my mom or dad was there, they would have called the police or confronted the man. Because we receive small racism here and there in America, we feel strongly against racism...

I work in a restaurant and because I'm Asian and I work in an Italian restaurant, some of the older generation people judge me and leave saying that this restaurant shouldn't be run by Asians.

I usually try to act cheery and cute (because old people like that LOL) and try to lead them back into the restaurant and ask them to try my recommendations. They usually try the food, love it and leave happily. There are some people who just straight up swear in my face and leave. These things do bother me but not as much as before because I've come to understand that people experienced different things in the past and may have different views about someone. You can't really change that overnight, but by doing good deeds, I feel like it can help them see other races in a different POV.

Sorry that happened to you and your girlfriend. I hope people will act like first world citizens instead of just living in it... It's truly sad...

Oh, and to answer your question, if I was your girlfriend, I would have told the man to his face that my love life if none of his business and that all men - no matter the race - are created equally. I would also tell him that you (you) are thousand times more pure in heart and never have bad intentions like him (the racist man). I would also say something like "Who are you to say what is right or wrong? You're not even my father! You are being very rude to me right now and please act your age. Do you really have to create such a commotion in public like this? Do you not have a wife? Do you not love her? Would you have no loved her if she was white? You should be ashamed of yourself! If you keep harassing me like this, I will call the police."

If I was you, I would have totally beefed him. You are taller and stronger. Koreans get intimidated if they get spoken to in English so I would have given him a long rant about why his actions are wrong.

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I'm mixed, black white and Guatemalan and I would've told that guy straight to his face how much of a bigot he was being and if he's so blinded by ignorance and the inability to decifer right from wrong regardless of how he was raised then that should be his problem to deal with, not me or my lover.. If he persisted I would've looked to everyone else and said "YOU CONDONE THIS?! How can you be so passive?"

I would have told him to fuckkkk off and I would have not even cared! I can't believe your girlfriend cried! That dude is a funking stranger with a one inch penis why the hell does she care what he has to say? You gotta be stronger in life than that! If I was you I would try to find out how to say in Korean shut up u small penis bastards.

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