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Only after you refused to write anything meaningful and started throwing funny statistics. Like booo hooo, there are only x percent of people sharing your skin color in the fricking Academy of Motion Pictures, I'll have the world's smallest violin play just for your tragic life.
You see why I don't believe you? You say nothing concrete. Your entire reply is just buzzwords and a mantra that might as well be posted by a chat bot. I'm part of which problem of yours exactly? I have literally nothing to do with your country and its stupid politics.
You could have shed some honest light on your situation and maybe I'd be like holy shit it's real. But no, you're sitting there living your privileged little American life that 95% of the world can only envy you on and whine about not getting a promotion on your job that probably pays more weekly than an average Indian earns in a year.
These statistics mean nothing if the question is whether you, the individual are prevented from succeeding in life solely based on your race and gender. The reason why there are less women in the police (everywhere in the wold) is especially obvious. For reasons on why the academy (one of the most fiercely liberal group of people in the world) is majority white I won't bother going into, but there always seems to be an answer that isn't racism or sexism. Less women pick certain professions due to biological and cultural reasons. Less black people get into cinematography, possibly because they're poorer and art isn't the first choice for people living in poverty. I could go on and on, but the point is that I've seen no evidence that racial minorities being rejected based on their skin color is this rampant thing in the US.
And even if there is some racial discrimination, there's no way your average african american is at more of a disadvantage than a pale slav with terrible accent and from a different culture.
As for your example, you might as well be lying since you won't even say what field you're talking about. And if it's true, it only shows there are singular cases of petty racists in management positions here and there.
Neither have I, but I was often accused of being on the spectrum. In reality, it was just plain old social anxiety.
Can you say what profession please?
I don't identify with the white race btw.
Also you have 2020 posts, nice.
Yes, especially if you are autistic.
It was the same among my group of friends, though we all made fun of each other in a harmless way. I rarely heard it from non-friends. In a way I'm thankful because it made me aware of some of my weird mannerisms so that I was able to fix them.
They definitely aren't any worse at it than Americans.
Look at it from the bright side. Are you hungry? Have a roof over your head? If you have that, you're ahead of many and free to pursue your happiness in other way but financial gain.
This reply is literally "you've made a stupid generalization so why can't I?".
Except I didn't even make one, a friend of a friend did, my post was meant to provoke counter arguments and I got some good ones and some terrible ones like yours.
<blockquote>Don't underestimate discrimination! Those doors are nailed shut if you're not the "right" gender, race, religion, age, etc.</blockquote>
Ok, I agree with most of it but this? Really? Literally what doors are nailed shot with today's diversity quotas in education and many companies? I'd agree if you sad that blacks on average have it harder because of their average socioeconomic status, but that doors are shut down for you if you're individual of a certain race or gender, I just don't see the evidence for it.
However if you're a foreigner with a hard accent and/or not even fluid in english, many doors are closed.
When I first started thinking about what would be some good counter-points to my OP, the problem with education and the stigmatizing culture were my first thoughts.
I never really bought that Americans are that stupid compared to the rest of the world. Maybe they are compared to Scandinavian countries or Japan for example. But your point about them not thinking outside the box and as one other user mentioned lacking entrepreneurial spirit shares some light on the matter.
Do they have a choice? It's not like there's a social health care system in the US.
You're implying here all immigrants brake the law and every one of them succeeded only because of playing dirty, while the good little Americans are all law abiding and that's why they're poor? It sounds like that "they took our jebs!" joke.
<blockquote>That is what you want?</blockquote>
No, actually I don't have a reason to care about how the job market looks half way across the globe. Your politicizing of the subject and complaining about the unfairness only confirms my theory that Americans are spoiled. Somebody comes to your country with nothing, makes something of himself and all you can say about it is he cheated.
In this example, they worked 12 hours each and there was no mention of an accident. If they can pull it off, props to them.
That's an interesting point that somewhat adds to the conversation, but I'm of the opinion that stupid laws exist to be broken and admire the taxi Koreans.
Sorry about your neck. My post was meant to be provocative Americans, I don't judge all poor people. I'm poor myself after all.
Good point. I'd also add the infamous problem of bureaucracy to that.
Weird? You want weird? Supposedly some women have them.
If some racist grandpa was the most evil creature to walk the earth, this planet would be paradise.