# Fear is the most common type of racism amongst younger people these days?

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**Created:** [October 1, 2012, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-is-the-most-common-type-of-racism-amongst-younger-people-these-days/636367 "2012-10-01T07:40:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2012, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-is-the-most-common-type-of-racism-amongst-younger-people-these-days/636367/21 "2012-10-02T07:09:37Z")

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Yeah, I agree that when I’m in a situation where I’m the minority, it barely registers or if it does, it registers in a humorous way.

I remember when my Dad helped me move to Houston, we ended up going out to an Indian restaurant because there literally AREN’T any where we were from, and I told him how good Indian food was.

We were in the restaurant, and he was so flabbergasted that everyone around us was NOT WHITE. He pointed it out to me that we were “in their territory”… and I just rolled my eyes. It never even registered to me to think about that kind of thing, but to my Dad, he was a bit uneasy about it.

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**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2012, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-is-the-most-common-type-of-racism-amongst-younger-people-these-days/636367/22 "2012-10-02T07:21:46Z")

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THese are all great stories. Here’s a thought experiment abstracted from my own experience: some hard looking black kids come up on a whitey and they’re trying to look intimidating. At least places where this comes up, whitey faking like Bruce lee with some ridiculous hand and feet shit like make a hole bitches, people will probably laugh. If its some white kids, they don’t have any sense of just screwing around if they’re that younger age where they think they need to copy black people they see on tv.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2012, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-is-the-most-common-type-of-racism-amongst-younger-people-these-days/636367/23 "2012-10-02T09:43:24Z")

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> [@Machine\_Elf](#):
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> I would have thought that for you (and for my wife), those feelings would fade over time, since you basically spend pretty much all day every day being a racial minority and get used to hanging around with white friends. I guess not? So the black guy down the hall at work (with the rest of us being pretty much white) probably always feels a similar sense of discomfort/non-belonging?

My mother is from a different part of Spain than the one where she lives, doesn’t look that much different from many of her neighbors (although all of them happen to be outsiders, they are from different parts of Spain), has lived in the same town for 41 years and there are still times when she feels “not so much like an outsider as like a goddamned alien from outer space”.

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