I read your IIN question and felt compelled to respond only because I can relate in more ways than one. I feel extremely uncomfortable around white people. I'm a normally very talkative person, happy go lucky and pretty cool, but around white people, I feel judged, small, self-conscious, isolated and different --> all at the same time. They speak to each other normally but my every word feels predetermined, thought out and external to myself. As if I'm talking to a wall and not to people: a wall of judgement where anything I say will be used against me. It's like two people are talking at the same time, vying against one another: me & censored me (yet there's nothing to be censored, but I feel that way). A lot of people would call it the residual affects of oppression, especially as my role isn't that of a leader (yet). So I feel as if I'm walking around on thin ice...where they constantly seek to prove the futility of any work I do. I would likely talk, rather openly, like the white girl that comes in sometimes does in her obnoxiously loud way, but I partake in none of their conversations, and those that others try to include me in, I get flashes of a Tom (usually only included in their conversations for the kicks or for some trivial buffer or the other). My response is usually slight as a result. I'm not racist of course, but I definitely feel more comfortable around pretty much any race aside from white people, due to this. Even sitting next to them makes me uncomfortable. It seems like they're every motive in life is to belittle others in some way. Like they get off on it. It's the entire American white culture. I know, not every white person is that way, but it feels like 90% of them are and I know based on current events,, that we're living in very racist times, whether people want to admit it or not. Yes, its post 60s, but there's still a lot to be done so Black/Brown/Orange people don't have to always feel this way everywhere we go in America.
You are very prejudiced. White folks in black countries have it worse - your inferiority complex multiplied by 10 that seeks to demonize whites at all costs. You use this complex to bully and belittle whites. I don't see how this makes you the better person in this situation!
No one said anything about an inferiority complex, I honestly think some of you are pure pieces of shit, only some, of course. It's funny how you're quick to mention how a white person feels in a black country. I wonder if apartheid had anything to do with it. By the way, in case you failed to realize, America isn't a white country so your analogy doesn't work.
Trying to invalidate my feelings won't work because you're not the one experiencing it.
You are trying to invalidate the feelings of white people who experience the same type of prejudice from blacks. So please don't flatter yourself. Blacks aren't the exception when it comes to racism being experienced!
Is it normal:That i feel uncomfortable around white people?
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I read your IIN question and felt compelled to respond only because I can relate in more ways than one. I feel extremely uncomfortable around white people. I'm a normally very talkative person, happy go lucky and pretty cool, but around white people, I feel judged, small, self-conscious, isolated and different --> all at the same time. They speak to each other normally but my every word feels predetermined, thought out and external to myself. As if I'm talking to a wall and not to people: a wall of judgement where anything I say will be used against me. It's like two people are talking at the same time, vying against one another: me & censored me (yet there's nothing to be censored, but I feel that way). A lot of people would call it the residual affects of oppression, especially as my role isn't that of a leader (yet). So I feel as if I'm walking around on thin ice...where they constantly seek to prove the futility of any work I do. I would likely talk, rather openly, like the white girl that comes in sometimes does in her obnoxiously loud way, but I partake in none of their conversations, and those that others try to include me in, I get flashes of a Tom (usually only included in their conversations for the kicks or for some trivial buffer or the other). My response is usually slight as a result. I'm not racist of course, but I definitely feel more comfortable around pretty much any race aside from white people, due to this. Even sitting next to them makes me uncomfortable. It seems like they're every motive in life is to belittle others in some way. Like they get off on it. It's the entire American white culture. I know, not every white person is that way, but it feels like 90% of them are and I know based on current events,, that we're living in very racist times, whether people want to admit it or not. Yes, its post 60s, but there's still a lot to be done so Black/Brown/Orange people don't have to always feel this way everywhere we go in America.
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You are very prejudiced. White folks in black countries have it worse - your inferiority complex multiplied by 10 that seeks to demonize whites at all costs. You use this complex to bully and belittle whites. I don't see how this makes you the better person in this situation!
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No one said anything about an inferiority complex, I honestly think some of you are pure pieces of shit, only some, of course. It's funny how you're quick to mention how a white person feels in a black country. I wonder if apartheid had anything to do with it. By the way, in case you failed to realize, America isn't a white country so your analogy doesn't work.
Trying to invalidate my feelings won't work because you're not the one experiencing it.
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You are trying to invalidate the feelings of white people who experience the same type of prejudice from blacks. So please don't flatter yourself. Blacks aren't the exception when it comes to racism being experienced!