Did you show her your penis?
American living abroad.
Though not particularly common I experience occasional discrimination based upon national origin. Sometimes that is a favoritism. Sometimes it is being treated more negatively. Most days, weeks, or even months there is no apparent difference in treatment, but rarely it does show up.
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Clicked on the wrong choice, meant to say “Not American, don’t feel I have been discriminated against” instead of “American, have been”
I probably have been discriminated against, but it’s not been a feature of my life thus far. I must confess I have little sympathy for some of the claims of discrimination, for instance someone upthread feels discriminated for being wished “Merry Christmas”, what the actual fuck? :rolleyes:
When traveling in Africa, I actually usually forget that I am a different color from the other people, and lull myself into believing that I just blend in with the crowd as I try to act conspicuous, as I typically to at home. I think, on balance, I have probably received more favoritism in Africa because of my color, than negative discrimination.
Sadly, Africans view light color, even among themselves, as a badge of superiority. This even the case here in the Philippines, where nearly all TV performers have a decidedly European, light-haired appearance, especially female.
No, I was volunteering. I don’t show it unless I’m getting paid.
Straight, white, conservative, wealthy, baby-boomer, gun-totin’, pickup-driving male in Texas. There’s the occasional disdain from my liberal SILs, but that’s a normal lefty reaction to rednecks having fun. If someone is discriminating at me they need to try harder, 'cause I haven’t noticed.
That’s just what Big Oatmeal wants everyone to believe.
Not that I know of.
It’s the hats. Everyone hates the hats. The Electric Amish even included it in one of their songs. At the very beginning nonetheless! 
I’m an ex-con, and I face some minor but definite discrimination in my life today over that. It’s nothing like how people treated me when I was a homeless junkie in the past though. People treated me as if I wasn’t even human back then.
I remember a couple incidents from when I was a teenager and I’d tentatively amend my “no” vote depending on the tense of the OP “do you experience”:
As a teenager, I ventured into the "other "(black) side of town several times on foot (when in a vehicle, I never experienced any more issues than average.) Around half the time someone would catcall from a passing vehicle me telling me I shouldn’t be in that section. One time I played tennis with a friend in that section, not knowing from his description that it was in that “prohibited” section, and some punks threw a bottle at us. I say punks because they were no more than 14, young enough that it wouldn’t look good on us if we fought them no matter the outcome. So, informed by the catcalling, I feel it’s safe to say I have experienced discrimination since the bottle throwing was most likely based on race. If it had been just the catcalls it would have technically been correct but not serious enough to mention.
For balance’s sake, when I grew up and lived in either mixed or white-majority areas, I’ve experienced much less violence and crime in mixed-race areas than in white-majority areas: the three or so years I’ve lived in the UCF area (which I count as white-majority) I had a bottle thrown at me, hit by a couple hit-and-run egg throwers/bb gunners, and was the victim of a hit-and-run on my car during the night. The 17 or so years I’ve lived in mixed-race areas, I’ve experienced – jack. Unless you count the 2 years I lived in the Rio Pinar area of Orlando where someone had a jalopy that would try to start in the night and suddenly interrupt me in my sleep at 2 am with some sort of combination between a screeching jaguar and a dying babby and nails on a chalkboard when they tried to start it and it scared me more viscerally than the oblivion of death, sending waves of fear and despair across my spine that I could feel moving up and down. Which should be counted as a crime against humanity but not discrimination.
To my knowledge, as a white female, the discrimination I have faced has been of the “this is valued in men but abhorrent in women” reactions from bosses and co-workers. But that is AFTER they’ve hired me for the job. And at this point, that attitude is WHY they hire me.
I’ve encountered a fair amount of “let’s try and upsell the woman” bullshit. However, I have not personally been refused service or a job or equivalent true harm to my well being just for my gender.
American citizen, I’ve never experienced discrimination that I can recall.
White female here.
I’ve never experienced discrimination where it’s been an obstacle in my life, but as a kid, I remember feeling bad a few times. I’m half Italian and look very Italian (dark hair, eyes, and olive skin). My last name was Italian. There were times when TEACHERS (yes teachers) would make comments to me about being Italian that embarrassed me. My 6th-grade teacher once read a poem that had the word Dago in it!! (Can’t imagine that would be allowed today.) Then she called on me and said something like, “you’re a Dago”. I was so embarrassed that I denied my heritage. Also heard many remarks throughout the years related to the Mafia. Cuz all of us Italianos are in the Mafia you know.
I realize this is nothing compared to what blacks, gays, etc experience, but to me it was something.
I’m a store cashier. Some people refuse to interact with a female, and some people will check everything to make sure I knew how to do it. One person told his young son “Always give a girl cashier correct change. They are too stupid to make change.” Um, okay.