Rarely have I had to edit or explain my words in this space. However, I think a lot of people who read this blog have done with the idea that racism in Germany is everywhere, at any time be discriminated against and hated.
One of the reasons why I chose stories (also true) that did not happen in Germany, not wanting to stigmatize this country that has welcomed me so well. What I wanted to show is that discrimination is everywhere. I also wanted to show that it is very different sense of outrage you feel when you hear talk about racism and the feelings are when discrimination is experienced. Please
at any time I wanted to speak evil of the Germans. Year and a half I've been living here in a city that supposedly has the largest neo-Nazi influence and yet had never received such treatment. People here are very friendly and generally do not think that Latinos us less than them. Instead, admire many things about our culture and finally, all like to have our climate.
So if you wanted me to say a lot of things against people who treated me with as well, as they fucked, go and if you are looking for reasons to say that, although Indians killed and members, that we are warmongers of the first and that any word that begins with FAR is equivalent to the devil, our culture is better, then you better go look elsewhere.
Finally, all of you who think that in Colombia there is no discrimination, I just need to tell you that once someone was about to hit Uribe told that I did not like as president.
Before making any comments on this post and think that Europeans are the worst, please read the following entry .
A and B are a multiracial family. He is Caucasian and she is African American. Once, while traveling in the southern United States, while in a restaurant approached a waitress who tells them "You should be ashamed."
C is a Japanese. How many had the desire to know America. The dream became a bitter experience when, while visiting an office building, a janitor, mistaking him for a Vietnamese run after he named Charlie.
D was born in Bangladesh. She is half English and therefore your skin tone is lighter than the vast majority of the people of his country. In her native Bangladesh for his skin color is desirable and will ensure you find a husband of a higher social status than a Bangladeshi with traditional Indian color. Her nightmare, however, begin when his family moved to New Zealand. There, the natives would say things like "Go back to your country curry Munch" or "give me curry quickly." Things only get worse when she moved to Australia where the school "multicultural" was nothing more than a breeding hatred among Asians, Muslims, Latinos and whites. Stories about racism
move us, fill us with indignation and raise questions about how bad the world is. However, none of these stories, or feelings that they generate can prepare ourselves for the feeling you experience when you are a victim of racism and xenophobia. How does it feel then? many things at the same time, you feel humiliation and frustration. It feels as if the soul torn in two. Can not hold back tears knowing that my principles, beliefs and dogmas are reduced to shield my passport and the word "Latin." It feels like there's no possibility of a future.
It's not the first time I feel judged by my status as Latin America, but the first time this has happened at the hands of someone whose opinion matters to my future. Never mind that my bosses have no more than a good opinion of my work, no matter People who know me recognize my strengths, and although I have many flaws, like everyone, they do not do that I consider a bad person. Never mind the good opinions that have been on me, all those above who consulted xenophobic. None of that matters, because for this it my value is measured in terms of my passport and my ethnicity. That's why it hurts so much, that's why I feel so empty. Also hurt that my best friends, those with whom I can count on unconditionally, they are more than 10,000 km away.
This is definitely not the best time of my life.
