Being at a mixed school in Northern Ireland was lots and lots of fun Although it was officially mixed, in the past it was Protestant only and is still mostly attended by Protestants so having Irish/Catholic parents ment I got the full monty thrown at me; Fenian, taig, rebel and more. Most of them I didn’t understand, even when my parents explained I still didn’t know why I was being called these names. I would have liked to explain to these people that I have no religion and nationality is of no concern to me, soon we’ll all be EU citizens anyway, but try telling them that. Better yet, after school I had to take the abuse hurled by the people from the mostly Catholic town I lived in :rolleyes: the uniform for them being an indicator of my religion.
I grew up in Providence and went to college there. One of my classmates asked me once if I had family in the mafia. I said no, and he insisted that I must, since I’m Italian and from Providence. Again, I said no. So he said that I must have family in the mob, but I just don’t know it.
And yes, I do refuse to watch the Sopranos on principle.
I’ve been called a queer (not in a nice way), a fudgepacker, and a fif (fag), that I remember at the moment.
I haven’t been called many names (I don’t count “gaijin” as a slur by itself), but I’ve been turned away by a lot of businesses that wouldn’t accept non-Japanese. The worst one was a realtor who tried to explain that it was for my own good that he wouldn’t show me any apartments, then called my girlfriend a dumb farmgirl for thinking she could bring a foreigner into this neighborhood.
Subgirl added the word “dickhead” to her English vocabulary that day.