If You Were A Target Of Racism How Would You Feel?

[user54321]

if you were a victim of racism how would you feel

[david small]

Racial prejudice flagrant as a white man in India. Did it bother me? Only financially as I had to pay way more than the locals. Also no white hotels. Water off a ducks back.

[Zacs-Master]

My mate was shot with a starting pistol. They think it was race related.

[Bobbisox1]

Get ya coat Zac ;0((((

[Zacs-Master]

How do you operate a Welsh door bell?


Just Prestatyn.

[Bobbisox1]

You’re on form today haha
( hope you daughter is going from strength to strength now )

[THECORBYLOON]

According to the 2011 Census, more than half the folk on Anglesy spoke Welsh.

I have no idea if Welsh was the first language of the folk in the pub but if they want to have conversations in Welsh in Wales, that's up to them.

[Bobbisox1]

Of course it is Corby, I didn’t go round chastising them you know ;0)))

[THECORBYLOON]

Why did you mention it then?

[anneasquith]

I think I read at one time the native tongue in Wales is spoken more in north Wales than any other part of the country .

[Zacs-Master]

‘ For the year ending 31 December 2020, the Annual Population Survey reported that 29.1% of people aged three and over were able to speak Welsh’
https://gov.wales/welsh-language-data-annual-population-survey-2020

[THECORBYLOON]

Had a look on a map of Wales and there's a couple of districts on Anglesey showing 80%-100% Welsh-speakers, according to the 2011 Census.

[THECORBYLOON]

From ZACS' link, "The highest percentages of Welsh speakers can be found in Gwynedd (77%) and the Isle of Anglesey (67%)."

[Bobbisox1]

Corby I’m sure there’s some others that require your attention hahaha

[Bobbisox1]

//// THECORBYLOON Why did you mention it then?////



Err for much the same reason as anyone else taking part in this thread, is that okay ?

[THECORBYLOON]

The thread is about how folk would react about being the victim of racism.

You gave an example of folk speaking Welsh in a pub in Wales (something that's very common on Aglesey) it didn't bother you and agreed it was their choice to so.

There's no indication it was racist is there?

[Bobbisox1]

If you say so ,sighhhhh

[Ringlet]

Bobbisox, I was actually on a bus coming from visiting my daughter in a hospital in Newcastle (Royal Infirmary I think although my memory is sketchy about details as it was a long time ago - 25 years). We were, as I recall, travelling by bus to catch the metro back to South Shields. The woman appeared to be very drunk, and had heard me talking to my son in law in my broad Derry/Londonderry accent. She followed us off the bus and to our surprise reappeared on the metro where she continued to yell loud questions at me, such as "how many bombs do you have in that bag?" "How many people have you shot?"

Didn't report it, no, attitudes were different then. It's highly unlikely that I would have been taken seriously. Today, the woman's actions would be considered a hate crime. A quarter of a century ago, the attitude would have been "suck it up, cup cake".

[Bobbisox1]

Yes it’s the Royal Victoria Infirmary ( RVI)
That’s shocking , did no one intervene? If not they should consider themselves total cowards

[Ringlet]

Bobbisox, the entire busload of passengers actually fell about laughing (including my son in law) because the drunk woman was (objectively) quite funny in her mannerisms and her comments. Subjectively, I found the episode excruciatingly embarrassing. I began to see a funny side when she asked me how many people I had shot and fixing her with a piercing stare I told her "None - yet!". That got a laugh from the other passengers and helped me to see the situation as less threatening.
Such a situation was fairly common in those years of intense IRA activity on the mainland. People were frightened and suspicious of a NI accent and comments were made that wouldn't be acceptable today. For example about 30 years ago, I took my kids to a funfair in Derby. After winning three sets in a row at the firing range (a tennis racket, a toy teaset and an ugly doll for the kids) the stall keeper asked me where I was from. When I told him NI, he commented "that explains your success".
My encounter with the mouthy drunk woman didn't put me off South Shields, though, I still love the people and the place. I get transported back there just by watching "Vera".

[Bobbisox1]

Haha, yes it’s a lovely place and I know what you mean about people being suspicious, we made good friends with a lovely couple who lived in Holywood , she was the manager of M&S in the province , we had a few lovely holidays with them but one particular memory was when we were sitting in the sunshine having a drink and the people on the next table were also northern Irish , a very distinct different accent from the south,I said ‘ they’re from your neck of the woods ‘ he became quite serious and shook his head a little, later at dinner I asked him about it and he says they didn’t really mix when they heard the accent and it all came down to trust ( or mistrust) they were married at the height of the troubles in 1967, she was Protestant, him a Catholic,they moved several times in their married life through bigotry from some , it must have been bad to make them move ,likewise chose not to have a family for a similar reason they said, a absolute lovely couple , we lost touch but I did ring at Christmas, sadly the phone was disconnected, I do hope they are okay x