Is it normal to always low-key feel resentment towards white people?

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I am under no means a racist. I do not hate white people, i just have this subtle bitterness towards any of them i encounter. I don't voice it, i just conceal it; though i'd let it out if i get in an argument with them and we get too mad at each other. I already have a few white friends and i tend to feel this way towards them as well at times. I don't feel this way towards any other race.

I'm middle eastern btw.

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  • Ummitsstillme
    4 years ago

    The fealing is mutual.

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  • Grunewald
    4 years ago

    I don't know - why do you feel this?

    I'm a white female and I sometimes get a harrassed feeling when a black man approaches me while I'm walking down the street - because street harrassment is a thing here and it's generally only done to me by black men.

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    • leggs91200
      4 years ago

      I think it is cause in the media and in real life, it seems like there are nothing but black man/white woman couples anymore.
      So many white women instantly lose their undies and cannot keep heir legs closed the instant they see some black man and black men know this so they assume no white woman can resist them.

      The other day I was at the gas station and some small group of black men was there, suits and ties, uppity looking. There was some younger fat white lady there who was so nervous around them she was dropping stuff. Kind of like how a young man would act around a group of cheerleaders. I thought she was going to give birth to a missed child on the spot just from being within 20 feet of them.

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    • RavenCage
      4 years ago

      i think it might have to do with all the biased history i learned, about how white people are painted as evil imperialists, and how they're always portrayed as hating muslims and Arabs. That they just want to steal all of our oil and resources and that's why they befriend us in the first place. I don't want to feel that way because i know not every white person thinks this way but i can't help it.

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    • RoseIsabella
      4 years ago

      Where do you live?

      I feel that way about construction workers, landscapers. I think catcalling is very rude, and disrespectful.

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      • bleedingdiarhea
        4 years ago

        Where on earth do you live that women are catcalled? I'm almost 50 and can say that I've only heard some lowlife do that a couple of times. And yeah they were roofers but still.

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        • RoseIsabella
          4 years ago

          I grew up in Houston, Texas, and it was mostly those Mexican dudes that did it, but also the occasional Black, or White guys, but mostly Hispanics. Yes, it's a very lowlife, and scummy thing to do. The guys who harrassed me were landscapers, and construction workers. To this day I feel uncomfortable, and just naturally scowl when I see guys that who do that sort of labor.

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        • raisinbran
          4 years ago

          I've only seen it in the movies in the 70s and 80s.

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  • dimwitted
    4 years ago

    You should talk it out with someone. Otherwise it's just going to fester.

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  • RoseIsabella
    4 years ago

    Did you perhaps have a really bad experience with a white person, or persons a long time ago, and now you have internalized that experience, and see the people that treated you badly in the faces of all white people? If this is remotely about religion, you are Muslim you realize that there are white people who are Muslims too. People come in all different shapes, sizes, colors, races, ethnicities, and religions.

    I don't think it's normal for you to have some low key resentment even towards your own white friends. I think you should try to work through your emotions about the bad experiences you've had with so called, "white people",

    White people are considered Caucasians, Caucasians come in all different shapes, sizes, and shades. Technically many Middle Eastern people are considered Caucasian.

    I tend to think that something bad happened in your past, or perhaps you have internalized what is presented on the news.

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    • RavenCage
      4 years ago

      Yes i'm aware that Caucasians can be muslim and there are fair skinned middle easterners, i'm one of them. But it's the European or American non muslims whites that i have this feeling towards. And yes i did have multiple experiences with white people mocking me for my race and religion or using micro aggression. Though i think it mostly has to do with the biased history i learned in school.

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      • RoseIsabella
        4 years ago

        I tend to believe that we are all shaped by our life experiences.

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  • Grunewald
    4 years ago

    I am also more likely to mistrust a man in traditional Islamic dress because of the association of terrorist activity with conservative Islam.

    And I also admit that I sometimes think to myself, when I see the veiled women begging in the streets and subways of my busy European city with their small children in tow, 'Why is it so often Muslim women who beg? Don't their own established mosques have some kind of refugee aid plan (besides the oversubscribed government provision) to help its members and their wider community, and if so, why do I only ever hear about Christian and secular government efforts?'. I know it's not fair to think this way. Most refugees in this country are Muslims. But why must they send the women out to do this demoralising, dangerous and undignified task, when these women often aren't even allowed to work in their home countries? The veil makes them a symbol of Islam - it makes a spectacle of them to us, rather than dissimulating them or making them look 'modest' to us (modesty isn't popular here). What impression is this making of the Islamic religion, that they send their women and children out to beg from us, all the while hating us? Is our inability to help them supposed to shame us? And yet, why should it? Do Islamic countries try to help Westerners? I don't know and I can't speak for them, but I can only think of Lebanon at the moment.

    Those are the inglorious thoughts swirling around my head sometimes. I'm not proud. But I'm not quite ready to let them go, either.

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    • RavenCage
      4 years ago

      Yes i do have similar thoughts about white people that i would like to get over. I think in my mind "oh these white people don't like us, all they wanna do is take our oil and resources, and as soon as they get their hands on them, they're gonna dump us in the bin and continue to portray us as backwards underdeveloped sexist barbaric monsters. They think their culture is the only dominant and intelligent one. They probably assume i beat every woman in my family and force them to wear a hijab." People think Orientalism is a thing of the past yet it's so evidently still alive and well, and you just proved it when you said "when these women often aren't even allowed to work in their home countries?" No, i see several women working in several different fields even in Saudi Arabia although i don't live there but i have cousins there.

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  • Boogienights
    4 years ago

    Is low key resentment different to general resentment? or do you just think its cool to use such idiotic try hard language?

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    • RavenCage
      4 years ago

      By that i mean it's more internalized rather than voiced outwards, and i don't always feel that way though it comes up in my mind often. Maybe you should listen to people first before you jump into conclusions.

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      • Boogienights
        4 years ago

        Im sick of hearing people use that term. Its as bad as "at the end of the day"

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  • bleedingdiarhea
    4 years ago

    Where are you from? Where do you live? Maybe your feelings toward whites are due to your experiences with them. Or maybe you are programmed by propaganda.

    I hate snakes. Really hate them. Why? Because my cousin was bitten by a rattlesnake when he and I were playing together as kids. It was just a baby snake but he almost died. So even though the majority of snakes I've seen in my life were non poisonous, I still either run away or kill them. Because one almost killed my cousin. On top of that, my mother had a fear of snakes which engrained a fear in me.

    White people arent your enemy. You either had a bad experience with one or you were programmed to resent them.

    I'm trying to get over my fear of snakes. Why dont you try to get over your fear of white people?

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    • RavenCage
      4 years ago

      I'm from Jordan, i have Iraqi heritage and i live in Egypt currently. I was educated in Jordan and i'm continuing my education here.

      In both countries, white people are portrayed in history as evil imperialists who want to suck the resources and wealth out of the middle east, then portray us as underdeveloped and barbaric after they leave us sucked dry with no proper government, they'd be like "oh we can be friends as long as we have power over you and you give us your resources". And i'd say also the fact that Iraq was destroyed and robbed by white soldiers and they get hailed as heroes for it.

      I've had some bad experiences with racist white people who looked down on me or feel comfortable joking about my race and religion or associating me with terrorism or 9/11 as a joke.

      The cherry on top would be when my mother got harassed for wearing a hijab on multiple occasions when she visited Europe.

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  • CozmoWank
    4 years ago

    Sure sounds like racism.

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    • RavenCage
      4 years ago

      I prefer to say that what i have could be irrational discrimination, for i take the term racism seriously and i don't like people who use it on everything race related watering it down in the process.

      I do not have this hate for white people because i think my race is superior and theirs is inferior, i have it because this belief of mine holds the view of them thinking their race is superior, which leads them to have this sort arrogance and condescending manner when addressing people of other races or cultures; Whether be it micro aggression or feeling comfortable with throwing racially inappropriate jokes towards non white people.

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