Anyone get racial insults tossed at you that are not your race? [Archive]

FTGTF

01-15-2007, 01:05 AM

I had a customer recently come into our store. And now while we aren't expensive on everything things that are not our store's focus are more expensive than going to say Wal-mart.

So this guy came in and bought one of these more expensive items. Of course he said something about the price, and I said we can't sell it as cheap as wal-mart because we don't sell nearly the volume they do. The guy then said. No it would be cheaper if you "towelheads" would stop buying up all the stores.

Now last time I check I was pretty white. I mean sure I got brown hair, but I'm pasty white.

MMATM

01-15-2007, 03:55 AM

I've been called a "N****r" by people more than once while at work (at least once was in jest but the rest were from customers so God knows). I've also been called a "Mick" a "Wop" and a "Guido" (which are all applicable I suppose) and an assortment of other names. People have called me "fag(got)" "gay" and other impolite references to homosexuality, though I am straight (I suppose these are meant solely to offend, not really to degrade me for choices I may or may not have made). I've also heard more anti-Semitic references than I care to mention, mainly because the store owner is Jewish. These references have very rarely (but on occasion) been aimed at me.

P.S: I am white, 1/4 Italian and at least 1/2 Irish (there is some dispute about the other 1/4, but it is not Italian apparently).
P.P.S: Black, homosexual, and Jewish I am not.

P.P.P.S: Sorry for the long post and the many PS's. :doh:

Department stores *sigh*

01-15-2007, 05:44 AM

this would be more of a sighting but kinda amused me. i visited my middle school when i was in gr 11 with a friend. Apparently the school had gone down the craphole and was basically home to the next generation dumb gang members. So after we talked to some old teachers and said our farewells we headed out.

in the parking lot was a bunch of 8th graders or so startin a fight. a white kid and an asian kid. the white kid called the asian one a N***** :wtf: this was shortly followed by a 19yr old black guy randomly walking by who promptly decked the kid once. Me and my pal kinda just left since teachers had seen the incident.

moral of the story? If you are dumb enough to call people racial slurs at least have the shred of intelligence to make it the right one >.<

blas

01-15-2007, 05:57 AM

I got a lot of...apparently, very racist old folks at the gas station. When they thought I screwed them out of something, some would call me a "Damn Jew". They're the same ignorant old sacks of shit that would blatantly outburst with "Look at that dumb negro out there at the gas pump!" when they saw a black person.

Last time I checked, I was German, not Jewish.

Casino Jockey

01-15-2007, 07:40 AM

at my last job i would work alot by myself, so i put on music i listen to - mostly russian pop even though i barly speak the language (i'm learning it however).

one day i was called a commie basterd, a red, and all sorts of slurs, but the first time i spoke russian to a russian speaker it was so bad they laughed at me.

Drakstern

01-15-2007, 03:11 PM

Lessee, I got called a kraut once. Surprisingly on target that one. Same with dirty frenchie. I'm half german with a goodish portion of french thrown in for flavor.

At the call center job, I've been called many many things, varying from 'stupid indian' to 'towelhead' to 'inbred hillbilly expletive deleted'. Which I find ironic, as I've never heard an Indian accent that sounded southern...

NightAngel

01-15-2007, 06:34 PM

The weirdest thing I can really remember is a woman told me I was being a "racist" once because I kicked her son out of the store. What made it weird was that she and I are both white.

MMATM- I've also been called a Wop a few times- my ancestory is Sicilian. Well, and Scottish- I have enough of the bloodline to 'legally' wear the plaid of my ancestor's clan.

But honestly, I'm all American. I would never even think to answer a question about my natioanlity as Italian or Scottish- I always say American.

Irving Patrick Freleigh

01-15-2007, 09:01 PM

I got called a "honky" by a co-worker who happened to be white.

While technically it is accurate, I thought honky was a term used by Black people to describe whites.

Somebody else called me a "gook". I can't recall even have any ancestors from Asia.

RecoveringKinkoid

01-16-2007, 04:48 AM

HA! "Hey, I'm a Mick!":lol:

Sounds like my favorite SCA fencer story...couple rapier fighters in garb ended up in a bar or a quick stop or some such thing, wearing their poofy shirts and high boots and whatnot. Cue obligatory redneck:

OR: What do you assholes think you are?
One of the Rapier Guys: Faggots!

Hey, they had swords. I guess they figured "Bring it." ;)

No, if I get racial insults thrown my way, they seem to be pretty much spot on. Except for the "witch" thing (from another post). I'm not a witch. I get mistaken for a plethora of other races, but rarely do I get anyone insult me to my face because of it. I've been mistaken for hispanic, jewish, spanish, native american, and partly black. Which is weird, because while I am olive-skinned, I am very pale complected.

Been called a "lezzie" plenty of times. Not only am I straight, but it does not bother me to be mistaken for a lesbian. I don't consider "gay" or any connectation of it an insult. So insult away. And no, I am not mannish (okay, some of my habits are mannish, but overall, no. ). It's just that sometimes, that's the worse thing a stupid person can think of to call someone.:rolleyes:

MCSledgehammer

01-16-2007, 05:22 AM

A friend of mine, in context long forgotten by me, was once called an "Irish piece of crap" by some uncreative soul. Her response was "Better an Irish crap than an All-American dipshit."
Well done, I thought.

protege

01-16-2007, 06:32 PM

I don't consider "gay" or any connectation of it an insult.

I don't consider that an insult either. I usually reply with "how original" or "is that the best you can do, twizzlefuck?"

I was called the N-word by a *black* lady at Hechinger's once. I was watering the plants outside one night, when her wheelchair got caught on it. Rather than simply wait for me to move it, she got stuck...and then called me a "dumb N-word." Now, since I'm white, I was soooo tempted to tell her "are you *sure* you want to go there?" but I had to be nice, since the boss was around. I wasn't about to stoop to her level, since I'm not like that. I mean, if you're going to insult me, at least get the epithet right. But then again, racists aren't usually rocket scientists... :rolleyes:

Cia

01-16-2007, 07:23 PM

What's a 'wop' and a 'mick"? I know spic, gut, n***** and honky and that's about it.

Irving Patrick Freleigh

01-16-2007, 08:01 PM

Wop= derogatory term for an Italian
Mick= derogatory term for an Irishperson, I think.

Not that I ever use those terms. I can't think of anybody to use them on.

tollbaby

01-16-2007, 10:09 PM

geez. Not only have I never been called any of those things, I've never even heard most of those words said out loud. That sort of behavior isn't tolerated publicly where I live.

My parents, on the other hand, are two of the biggest damn biggots I've ever met, and I'm honestly ashamed to be related to them. They make snarky comments about oriental drivers, muslims anywhere, sikhs (sp?), etc. The other day we're following a driving school car, and the poor woman must have been on her first lesson, because she was driving PAINFULLY slowly. I feel bad for her, because I recently went through the same thing myself (got my license on Sept 19th!) My father, seeing that the woman was wearing... err... one of those head-covering things muslim women wear (dunno the name, sorry) says, "Oh great, it's not only a female student driver, it's a (get this) Somalian one! F*ing Somalians!"

Woman wasn't even remotely dark-skinned, and she was *probably* Algerian or something (we have a very large Algerian population in the area where I live). I was just glad that my kids weren't in the car with us. The last time my parents BOTH started making VERY LOUD, RUDE comments about another driver (with their windows open, mind you), I told them that if they didn't shut their gobs, my children and I were exiting the vehicle and making our way home immediately. Honestly! Like I want my kids to learn that crap! Stupid narrow-minded twits.

RecoveringKinkoid

01-16-2007, 10:14 PM

Wop means "With Out Papers."

I imagine Mick is a play on last names, maybe?

I think I may have the same problem. I have relatives who are very racist, and use the N word without the slightest provocation or embarassment.

Half the time, they don't even mean anything bad by it. They are just THAT ignorant. I do not want my child around that, and I see some arguments in my near future.

Barefootgirl

01-16-2007, 10:23 PM

Michael and Patrick were and still are, very popular traditional first names in ireland (saints' names, y'see?). Mick and Pat are the stereotypical Irishmen in jokes, and to be honest, among Irish men of a certain age, Mick or Micko, and Pat ARE the most common names.

cannedpasta

01-17-2007, 07:32 AM

I get called "N****r" a lot, and I am one of the whitest people I know.

The best one was a group of three people (all white) looking for Final Fantasy XII. They asked how much it was, and I told them the price... $49.99... exactly the same as everywhere else... and I get "Damn, you N***** charge a LOT fo yo games!" and the left.

I'm still kind of confused over that one.

Lace Neil Singer

01-17-2007, 11:30 AM

I think they were aping rappers; there are a worrying amount of white kids speaking ebonics where I live.

I've been called a "white bitch" by a black girl who barged into me; while technically correct, it's a bit off seeing as I didn't do anything to her, and if I'd called her a "black bitch" she probably would have been really angry, and so would everyone around us. Plus there was that time at the pizza place when this black woman called my collegue "honky". I didn't know then what that means, and neither did he, so it lost some fire. I still don't know.

As for off race insults, I've been called a "Patty" before; I'm not Irish. I've also had someone say sarcastically after I spoke "Oh la-di-da, posho!" Er, I am not posh, I'm middle class and proud!

NightAngel

01-17-2007, 05:55 PM

Wop means "With Out Papers."

While this is probably very true it has, at some point, become a derogatory term for those of Italian heritage.

I would never even dream of trying to guess someone's heritage by looking at them. I'd say that it's fairly impossible. My hubby, for example, is a white guy with medium brown hair and blue eyes. You'd never guess he's 3/4 Apache Indian just by looking at him.

Noelegy

01-17-2007, 11:54 PM

Been called a "lezzie" plenty of times. Not only am I straight, but it does not bother me to be mistaken for a lesbian. I don't consider "gay" or any connectation of it an insult. So insult away. And no, I am not mannish (okay, some of my habits are mannish, but overall, no. ). It's just that sometimes, that's the worse thing a stupid person can think of to call someone.:rolleyes:

Verging :ot: but for some reason my best girlfriend and I got called this ALL through high school, and we could never figure it out. We weren't physically affectionate toward each other, and neither one of us had a stereotypical "lesbian" appearance. The only thing we could think of was that for all of high school we not only hung around together a lot, but got along really well and didn't participate in the typical girly backstabbing and fighting. I guess "gets along well" = "homosexual" to some.

Years after graduation, I still had at least one person telling me he was surprised I'd gotten married (my best friend got married too, btw) because he thought I was "that way."

People. They gotta have something to talk about. :rolleyes:

Imogene

01-18-2007, 06:14 PM

one of those head-covering things muslim women wear (dunno the name, sorry)

A burqa? Oh, no, that's the full body one...
According to ask.com, the headwear is called a Hijaab.

And, you know, Islamic though I am not, it has seemed like an interesting garment to wear out and about at times. No disrespect meant to Islam. I'm just... strange (if you hadn't already figured that out...)

Fire_on_High

01-18-2007, 09:43 PM

LOL somehow I get mistaken for Mexican a lot. My maiden name didn't really point to any particular country, and I'd heard guesses ranging from German to every flavor of Eastern European, with German being correct...but once I got married and had a name that sounded more Hispanic, I've been called every name under the sun by white folks thinking I'm one of our less than legal friends from the south, as well as soundly cussed by Spanish speakers for not speaking Spanish.

The irony of course is that I'm your typical fat white girl...darkish hair, but blue-green eyes, and skin so pale it's nearly translucent. There's absolutely nothing to suggest that I'm anything other than Euromutt. Even more ironic is that my "Hispanic sounding" married name is Romanian or Hungarian in origin. :-)

tollbaby

01-18-2007, 09:53 PM

According to ask.com, the headwear is called a Hijaab.

I actually want to get one of the full-face ones for winter. It goes down to -40 and below where I live, and damn if that doesn't sting on the face! Balaclavas have never wanted to stay in place for me, and there's nothing worse than having soggy yarn freeze to your face. At least a hijaab gives you a bit of breathing room :) (besides, my ex-husband told me I looked sexy when I had to wear one of the head-part only ones for a play I was in).

Imogene

01-19-2007, 02:44 AM

At least a hijaab gives you a bit of breathing room :) (besides, my ex-husband told me I looked sexy when I had to wear one of the head-part only ones for a play I was in).
Any idea where to get one?
/looking for leads
//Really doesn't want to make one by hand, but that'd be the most likely way to get one in pink...

booger

01-19-2007, 06:59 AM

I've never had racist comments toward me, but I think this is most likely because no one can tell where I'm from. :) I have brown hair, DARK brown eyes, and pasty pale white skin. I've been asked if I am Canadian, and people occasionally think I am Asian or Hispanic. As it happens, I am mostly German and English, with enough Native American in me to have dark eyes, which looks sort of freaky with my pale skin. I guess it's kind of good to be a mutt if no one can make racist comments at you. :)

...actually, I am sort of surprised and amazed that in 8 years in fast food and almost 2 in retail that no one has said anything like that to me. Most of the rudeness aimed at me tends to be "Go to school and get a REAL job." Ok buddy, shut your piehole, I have a degree thankyouverymuchokbyebye. :)

chrislb

01-19-2007, 07:02 AM

I've been call a stupid n-word by a crazy hispanic homeless guy before. I've been called a dirty jew, nazi, hitler and various other derogatory names. It surprizes me to no end because i am fairly white. I have german heritage but that doesn't make me a nazi or a jew. I just laugh at idiots who use racist terms. I watch south park and drawn together. I can come up with better ones if I really wanted to.

KamenRiderOsaka

01-19-2007, 07:23 AM

My maiden name is spanish sounding, so I was called a wetback and spic a lot by pissed off customers on the phone. Back when my hair was black, I looked like I was a little asian girl (I have slanted eyes, but you can tell Im not asian if you get close up) and people would call me "chinky" all the time.

tollbaby

01-19-2007, 03:13 PM

Any idea where to get one?
/looking for leads
//Really doesn't want to make one by hand, but that'd be the most likely way to get one in pink...

sadly no :( and I no longer have the phone number of the muslim babysitter that I used to hire when we lived in Ontario. *sigh* Let's just say that where I live now, they're a rare sight.

NightAngel

01-19-2007, 05:43 PM

According to ask.com, the headwear is called a Hijaab.

I actually own one- the whole outfit from head to toe. My Aunt was stationed in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm and brought me one home. I have worn it on rare occasion for the novelty of it and it isn't really that uncomfortable. It's not wonderful but I'd rather wear it than say a corset.

It is not something I'd want to wear every day though. I'd get annoyed with having my face covered all the time and do you know how hard it is to keep your hair from straying out into sight?

blas

01-19-2007, 09:51 PM

I just got called a dirty honkey and a nazi kraut on myspace a few minutes ago because I rejected a guy's pickup line. No, it wasn't because he was Native American, it's because I find random pick-up lines on myspace very....creepy. I'm sorry some people just cannot handle rejection. Amazing how "damn baby u's fine holla at me!" will quickly transition into "You dirty honkey, stupid nazi kraut, go join the KKK with all your other hitler friends...white power!" as soon as you say "Sorry, not interested". Hmm?

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black......(I hope Omarossa isn't around right now to see this).

Yes, just because I have two german flags on my myspace, I salute Hitler every day and on the weekends, I don my white hood and go by the name "Imperial Wizard Blasphemy"............

Sorry, that really upsets me. Not being called a honkey, that just makes me laugh. Not being called a kraut, that just makes me laugh harder. Not being called a hitler hailer, that just makes me roll my eyes........but the whole irony in the situation itself.

LewisLegion

01-21-2007, 01:48 AM

I'm never mistaken for anything though once when I mentioned I had native american in my heritage, an actual native american squinted at me and said they could tell. For the record, I'm EXTREMELY pale with dark brown hair (natural blond highlighted in the front) and blue eyes. I've got a definate Scottish build though...which makes sense, cause my family's got enough Scottish in them to choke a haggis.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Scottish build I'm referring to, its the long torso and short stumpy legs. As a McDonald, a Ross, and a Fergusson, I'm 'legal' enough to wear three different tartans :)

My older sister, however, is always mistaken for Spanish. She's been asked before (while working in retail) how she's liking this country even though she talks with no accent whatsoever. She has people who start rattling off to her in Spanish constantly, and while she does speak enough to know what's being said in most cases if its slowly, someone rattling off at top speed just makes her stare in stupification.

ladydouji

01-21-2007, 08:14 AM

The closest I've had to some-one throwing a racial epitaph at me is a guy called in, I gave my normal opening spiel and the only sentence I heard was "God d*mnit! Not ANOTHER black woman" *click*

As you can see here here http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v407/ladydouji/black%20hair/DSCF0579.jpg
I'm as pasty white as you can get.

:lol:

I do get a lot of people asking where I'm from as I have an odd accent, left over from a speech impediment I had as a kid. But don't really get a lot of insults over it.

Hemily

01-22-2007, 01:43 PM

i don't get any racial slurs thrown at me, i've been mistaken for an american a few times, but not in a bad way, i however, get alot of the stupidest insults ever thought up thrown at me randomly, i have a beard, i let it grow pretty long, as i like to have it braided sometimes, so people keep commenting on how there's wild animals hiding in it, or that it could kill people.... it's facial hair... get over it! it's not my fault you can't grow a beard *sigh*

HYHYBT

01-23-2007, 01:47 PM

I'm 'legal' enough to wear three different tartansYes, but you'd look silly trying it...

blas

01-23-2007, 01:55 PM

I remember a friend at work pulling this stunt........and yes, it makes me a horrible person for finding it hilarious at the time......but I will tell it anyway.

When I was temporarily transfered to another department, I met several other people who were also temporarily transfered. We were all alone compared to the evil, gossipy, rude, crude crowd of people in that department, mostly made up of older people with nothing to do but gossip, tattle, and try and wreck a younger employee's future.

Two boys and I got along great. I never dated either one of them or anything, but we've still remained friends to this day.......that and another girl who is also still one of my good friends, but she wasn't there that night.

So we have satellite radio at work. One night it was that god awful slow country music. Anyone seen the commercial for "country's got heart?" cds? Kinda like that. Anyways, my two guy friends were singing along to it, not obnoxiously or anything, but trying to keep spirits high, because there isn't much you can do when you're stuck listening to country music 3-4 nights out of the week.

There was this woman from Russia whose family had moved to the states a few years back and all of them worked at the factory. She was a large woman with big poofy hair and the meanest, most evil looking face you'd ever imagine. If looks could kill...............one day she shot me the most evil glare in the world....and all I was doing was putting on chapstick. I swear, her eyes were shooting daggers at me. She was extremely unpleasant.

Well, she happened to be working next to the boys and I was kiddy corner to them. She all of a sudden screams "STOP THAT SINGING NOW!" and pounded her fist against the counter. Both boys kind of jump back and are like "wtf?!"

Ok, now, I promise, this is the racial slur part we finally get to...

When we got to go out to our break, I started up a conversation I never should have. "Wow, that bitch really told you two off!"

One guy then sneers, "Damn dirty commie bitch should just shut the fuck up and go back home."

The other one says, "Maybe we should keep doing it and see if she'll yell at us again, then we can get her fired for being psycho!"

Yes, I know, I'm a terrible person, but I thought the commie part was hilarious. I actually agreed with both of them.

Unfortunately, she still works there, and I get a lovely icy glare every time she sees me in the hallways.

LewisLegion

01-23-2007, 11:55 PM

Yes, but you'd look silly trying it...

But I've always wanted to look like an elderly golfer threw up on me...

nick1091

01-24-2007, 12:23 AM

I work in the finance industry, and have several times been called a Jew, I was trying to Jew someone over, etc. I have no Jewish ancestry that I know of.

My favorite story along this topic was from a call I listened in on with my supervisor at the time, who was Haitian. The customer, as they are wont to do, made some ridiculous and unrealistic request, and started getting personal when he was denied.

S: Supervisor
SC: The Obvious

S: Well, that's not going to happen, sir. Is there anything else I can help you with?
SC: Yeah.
S: What's that?
SC: You can go back to India where you come from.
S: I'm not Indian.
SC: Fine, Jamaica then.
S: I'm Haitian.
SC: WHATEVERR!!!!!

AFpheonix

01-25-2007, 04:13 AM

Any idea where to get one?
/looking for leads
//Really doesn't want to make one by hand, but that'd be the most likely way to get one in pink...

http://www.starscarves.com/ob3036.html

There ya go :)

tollbaby

01-25-2007, 05:07 PM

wooo :) I have a couple of Pashminas! I never even thought to wear them as a hijab!

Ackee

02-09-2007, 01:10 PM

SC: You can go back to India where you come from.
S: I'm not Indian.
SC: Fine, Jamaica then.
S: I'm Haitian.
SC: WHATEVERR!!!!!

What a classic. i bet if that Sc had any decency, he would be ashamed. But he probably doesn't have decency, that why he is an SC

Crazyredhead

02-09-2007, 01:50 PM

I've been called a "white bitch" by a black girl who barged into me; while technically correct, it's a bit off seeing as I didn't do anything to her, and if I'd called her a "black bitch" she probably would have been really angry, and so would everyone around us.

Honey, where I'm from, Bitch is not an insult. I have worked a long time for that title, so don't use it lightly.

Seriously, I haven't been called any kind of racial slurs that I can remember.

Well, there was my grandfather (R.I.P). He called me a n****r lover once, which was true, I am married to a black man.

My family is very racist, except my dad and stepmom. My mother has disowned me twice for just dating a black man. They cannot understand how I could be married to a black man, they says I was raised better than that?!? I am glad I am no longer associated with them.

It took 10 years but my mother has come around, I think. When she seen my kids she changed her tune. I always used to piss her off by telling her that she is the reason that I met my husband, she pushed me into the military.

She now tells me that she is very proud of me. She said not many woman can raise one kid let alone 5 of them. She said that I am doing an excellent job. I take this very personal and to heart coming from my mom.

draftermatt

02-09-2007, 03:54 PM

I used to get "druggie" all the time. My eyes are always (always) dark. Kinda like I've been punched, or I never sleep. Neither is true, I'm just that way. (Racoon like).

Another guy once called me the 6'-2" Jew. I have no Jewish heritage and I'm acutually Catholic. Figure that one out...

I used to get Redneck all the time. One person said I should paint KKK across the hood of my truck. Why? Because I owned something with a Confederate flag on it. My grandmother is from Virginia and I had relatives fight for the confederacy. I don't flaunt it or anything, but that was the only reason I had it.

Arcade Man D

02-10-2007, 06:49 AM

Not racial, but I tend to get the following far too often:

"fag", "queer", "fucking homo".

All because I have a lisp. Bloody hell, it's annoying.

Especially with my 6-month anniversary with my girlfriend coming up in 2 weeks.

((No offense to any here who may be homosexual, but it's just not for me, for one, and for two, it brings back bad memories from middle school.))

And not just that, but one (female) co-worker at a prior job (selling vacuums door-to-door), the first question she asked me was "Are you gay?". Seriously, she had just found out my name 15 minutes prior.

Tria

02-10-2007, 09:05 PM

My hubby, for example, is a white guy with medium brown hair and blue eyes. You'd never guess he's 3/4 Apache Indian just by looking at him.

You just broke my Punnet Square.....

Gurndigarn

02-12-2007, 12:30 AM

* = For those that don't know, the British used to "impress" people into the navy hundreds of years ago by getting you @$$drunk and having you wake up on the ship.

Drunk was optional, but solved a lot of problems for the press gangs. It also meant that you could start operating the ship as soon as the hangover passed, rather than waiting for the bones to knit.

And you thought today's managers were bad...

protege

02-12-2007, 03:59 PM

"fag", "queer", "fucking homo".

That's because people are idiots, and can't come up with better 'insults.' Don't believe me? Go to *any* car site, and if someone doesn't like someone else's car, it's never because said car is a riced-out POS, but always because they're "gay" or various other sexual reasons. It's rather pathetic, actually.

As for me, well, I have German, Irish, and Norwegian roots. Trust me, it's an interesting combination if you piss me off :angel: Getting info on my family tree has been difficult--my Norwegian last name is like "Smith" over here. As such, info has been slow in coming, and most of those who would know are dead. I do know that I'm one of the last direct descendants of the original family that still has the same last name.

tollbaby

02-13-2007, 10:39 PM

Geez. I feel kind of inadequate now. I'm French Canadian. That's it. :(

myswtghst

02-13-2007, 10:51 PM

No one ever correctly guesses my heritage, from looking at me. Given that my hair hasn't been its natural color in about 6 years, I guess that might have something to do with it, but still. (I'm Dutch, Native American [Potawatomi] and English, if you're curious). My brother is the kicker though, because the Dutch is obvious (he's incredibly blonde, fair-skinned and blue-eyed) but no one ever guesses Native American. :)

zzapp the witch

02-18-2007, 01:29 AM

Someone once called my dad a racial epithet....he responded with, "Nope, I'm a McInjun O'Turk." (Scotch Irish, Armenian, and Native American).

Seshat

02-18-2007, 03:54 AM

Any idea where to get one?
/looking for leads
//Really doesn't want to make one by hand, but that'd be the most likely way to get one in pink...

Googling hijab, http://www.thehijabshop.com/ looks interesting.

ForestDragon

02-19-2007, 07:45 AM

This was actually a sighting that amused me - while I was on my way to work, I saw a teenager (black) get off the bus and yell back to his friend -

"Come on, hurry up, nigga!"

I had to snicker to myself when his white friend followed.

Hemily

02-20-2007, 12:21 PM

That's because people are idiots, and can't come up with better 'insults.' Don't believe me? Go to *any* car site, and if someone doesn't like someone else's car, it's never because said car is a riced-out POS, but always because they're "gay" or various other sexual reasons. It's rather pathetic, actually.

As for me, well, I have German, Irish, and Norwegian roots. Trust me, it's an interesting combination if you piss me off :angel: Getting info on my family tree has been difficult--my Norwegian last name is like "Smith" over here. As such, info has been slow in coming, and most of those who would know are dead. I do know that I'm one of the last direct descendants of the original family that still has the same last name.

what last name is that then? Olsen? :p

and yeah, car sites suck like that, i weep for the people remotly interested in cars, if you don't go mainstream, a bunch of kids in honda civics will call you gay.

protege

02-20-2007, 04:07 PM

what last name is that then? Olsen? :p

and yeah, car sites suck like that, i weep for the people remotly interested in cars, if you don't go mainstream, a bunch of kids in honda civics will call you gay.

Nah, it means "eastern house."

People like that are *exactly* why I don't go to many car sites. What bugs me about those people, is they claim to be "original" by doing stupid things to their cars...yet can't come up with some new insults. Not too surprising, since many of their "one-of-a-kind" cars also look pretty much the same :rolleyes:

Banrion

02-20-2007, 06:03 PM

I'm Irish, Nowegian & German, and not an insult, but in my mind rather a compliment. When I was in college I was asked on more than one occasion to pledge the Asian soroity. Still don't know where they saw any asian in my as I have red (dyed) hair, blue eyes, freckles, and am as pale as Powder.

draftermatt

02-20-2007, 07:32 PM

greensinestro

02-21-2007, 07:27 PM

What exactly does "towelhead" mean? Never understood that one.

tollbaby

02-21-2007, 08:28 PM

What exactly does "towelhead" mean? Never understood that one.

My grandma uses this one *sigh* It's used interchangeably for men who wear turbans or for muslim women (who wear hijabs).

greensinestro

02-21-2007, 08:50 PM

My grandma uses this one *sigh* It's used interchangeably for men who wear turbans or for muslim women (who wear hijabs).

Oh! Those towelheads!

tollbaby

02-22-2007, 05:46 PM

Oh! Those towelheads!

ok... I almost broke rule #1 with strawberry mini wheats and diet coke (although I'm starting a cold and I'm really stuffed up, so maybe it would have cleared my sinuses a bit...)

ladydouji

02-23-2007, 08:46 AM

Googling hijab, http://www.thehijabshop.com/ looks interesting.

Whoa. The ones in the sporting range look insanely awesome and sci-fi.

Rapscallion

02-23-2007, 08:28 PM

blas

02-23-2007, 09:55 PM

A lot of people call my roomate a WAP or WOP whatever......and he's not Italian at all, he's just really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really.....hairy. And Polish.

HYHYBT

02-24-2007, 06:03 AM

I almost broke rule #1 with strawberry mini wheats and diet coke Cereal with *soda*?! That's unnatural and disturbing, on the level of the sun being blue.

(and sugar cereal with diet, no less....)

blas

02-24-2007, 06:25 AM

I'd imagine cereal and soda pop combined would give a person the runs, or at the very least, a vile tummy ache.

tollbaby

02-25-2007, 04:53 AM

I love teasing her about the genealogy research that her mother did - they have a Miller in their family, and she's deathly afraid it is......*dramatic chord*.....BRITISH! I also like to tease her that I am likely about two billionth in line for the English Throne........

actually, Miller could be as much German as British (although I think Muller is more common, there are Miller families of German descent). I'd probably have trouble with her accent, to be honest, because I even have difficulty with most areas of Quebec (I'm franco-Ontarian). I used to have a roommate from Northern Quebec, and I could never understand a word she said when she'd get on the phone to her friends.

To explain the diet coke & mini wheats, Diet Coke is my beverage of choice, and I like snacking on dry mini wheats.

blas

02-25-2007, 05:24 AM

I see I see.....then you will be fine lol.......I once made the mistake of drinking Mt Dew while eating lucky charms......acid and milk dont mix!

Back on topic......people aren't as dumb as I like to think they are. While almost no one can pronounce my last name, they can tell it's German anyways....even their weird versions of my last name are German lol.

Phone Jockey

02-25-2007, 07:51 PM

I got called a "honky" by a co-worker who happened to be white.

I was called a "honky" by a white bum who was mad at me for not giving him money. I'm white, but so was he!

Also, got called a dyke once. :confused: I was just sitting in my car, alone. No stickers on the car or anything. LOL

Boggles

02-25-2007, 08:46 PM

Last year i had a whole fortnight off work and grew a dodgy beard whilst on holiday.

Since then, I have had 12 solid months of Taliban/Suicide Bomber/Bin laden "jokes" from customers.

All the while i have smiled politely and (so far) resisted mixing something special into their candy.

BusBus

02-25-2007, 10:43 PM

Nobody has tried to insult me racially. They probably see the (natural) red in my hair and think twice about it (oddly, I do not have any Irish/Scottish/Viking blood in my family line). Looking at me (short, auburn hair, dark eyes, pasty white freckled skin), it's sometimes difficult to convince people that I'm half....Dutch.

Tollbaby- I *love* the French Canadian accent (maybe because it's a novelty on the wet coast :lol: )

Pinkie

02-25-2007, 11:06 PM

My mother is a bigot... I blame alot of it on the fact that she's never had to interact with people of other ethnic groups. She was born, raised, married and has lived in middle Wisconsin for all of her 60 years. She was adopted at birth and after her adoptive parents died, she got on the internet looking for her birth mother and possibly siblings (she ended up being an only child). She had one woman contact her as a possible sibling. It sounded very likely, but this woman said she was native American (American Indian). My mom freaked out and didn't even reply to this woman. She was like, "How dare she think I could have a sister who is an Indian". She ranted some more about the "dirty indians" and has never brought up looking for her birth family which is a shame for me and my siblings. We'd love to know a bit more about our medical history. All we know about mom is that she's nuts!!

protege

02-26-2007, 05:37 PM

While almost no one can pronounce my last name, they can tell it's German anyways....even their weird versions of my last name are German lol.

It could be worse. Nobody can pronounce my last name either, and it's not German...it's Norwegian. It sounds German, but isn't. Several people think it's Austrian or Hungarian. Go figure. They all want to add extra letters in there, or take a few away. I even had someone tell me "you're lying. That's not how you pronouce your last name." Uh, I *think* I know how to say it, you crackhead!

tollbaby

03-07-2007, 08:17 PM

Tollbaby- I *love* the French Canadian accent (maybe because it's a novelty on the wet coast :lol: )

hehe you wouldn't like mine much. You can't tell I'm a francophone when I speak English (and you can't tell I speak English when I speak French...if that makes any sense at all).

blas

03-07-2007, 08:23 PM

Pinkie, you hit that one right on the dot with the middle Wisconsin remark. I couldn't agree with you more. Even though we are becoming more culturally diverse around here, it doesn't stop the inbreds and rednecks from using their racial slurs and prejudices as if it still was 1961 around here. I'm ashamed, very ashamed, to call these people my neighbors and fellow Wisconsinites. They are a total breed of ignorance and hatred and old fashioned thinking that needs to be taught a lesson or shipped to the desert.

April

03-07-2007, 08:43 PM

I don't know if I've ever been racially insulted before. I don't think so. There is a friend of the family that I have always just loved, but he is somewhat rascist. He calls anyone of middle eastern descent "sand n***ers" which has always upset me

myswtghst

03-07-2007, 08:48 PM

Looking at me (short, auburn hair, dark eyes, pasty white freckled skin), it's sometimes difficult to convince people that I'm half....Dutch.

My grandma is 100% pure Dutch, and she's a redhead as well. :)

blas

03-08-2007, 03:30 AM

Hair and eye color arent always a dead giveaway.

My mother has carrot top red hair, pasty skin and freckles, but she's *gasp* half italian! Italian! Everyone thinks Italians are all tan with dark features, not true. The rest of her is German.

I get sick and tired of explaining to stupid people how not all German people are blonde haired and blue eyed. My father's family are pure Germans with Brown hair and Brown/Hazel eyes.............

Another lesson in assuming I guess!

Delphae

03-08-2007, 04:39 AM

When I was substituting, I was told by a student that the class wasn't listening to me because they thought I was Chinese. I told her that was to bad because I wasn't. I do have black hair, pale olive skin and slightly almond shaped eyes. I get mistaken for part Asian every now and then. But it is really the Italian side of me.

Cia

03-08-2007, 08:18 PM

Beyond having the little kids I babysat back when I was a teen ask me if I was a honky nobody has ever done that to me.

Larry and I had a neat little talk about racist crap like that. He was only 7 so I pointed out nicely that calling me a 'honky' because I'm white was just as mean as as me calling him a 'gut' because he's Indian. Then we went back to playing kickball.

ContraCorriente

03-09-2007, 01:50 AM

I got called a 'bloody cat-eating Asian' one day. I am exactly 0% Asian.

One man told me 'Merry Christmas!' and I said, 'Well, Happy Hanukkah.' And he thought I gave him the wrong change, so he called me a cheap Jew. Not nice!

Shironu-Akaineko

03-17-2007, 12:00 AM

I didn't get any racial slurs (yet...) Because people can't figure out what I am. Heck, some people can't figure out my gender, let alone my race.

Gender= Female. High pitched voice and C cups shoulda tipped you off. If not, peek into my heart print purse filled with Hello Kitty accessories. Pay no attention to the "Luigi is my Homeboy" shirt. I'M female. Deal.

Race= I'm part french (Legally all french, was denied english school cuz of that), part Irish and half-way Native (Part Iroquois, part Huron). Auburn hair that turns reddish in the summer, hazel eyes, and goth-like skin. yeaaaaah you can see the native right away, huh?:lol:

I like the taste of alcohol but I'm very lightweight. So I say I have an Irish tongue but a native liver. :p

My cousin Mike has no Irish in him but got all the Native genes. Dark skin, black hair, dark brown eyes, hook nose... He looks pretty cool.:D

tollbaby

03-20-2007, 07:02 PM

I had to jump through hoops to get my ex-husband's grammar school records sent over so I could get my son into an English school *groan* I hate the Quebec government with a passion.

Cia

03-22-2007, 08:12 PM

Tollbaby, why should your ex's school records have anything to do with your kid entering school? Is the Quebec school system...ass backwards?

Shironu-Akaineko

03-22-2007, 08:27 PM

Tollbaby, why should your ex's school records have anything to do with your kid entering school? Is the Quebec school system...ass backwards?

YES. They wouldn't let me enter english school because both my birthparents were french!

Gurndigarn

03-22-2007, 10:48 PM

YES. They wouldn't let me enter english school because both my birthparents were french!

I've known that French Canadians were paranoid about all the english speakers around them. But damn, doesn't that remind you of the way the iron curtain used to work?

tollbaby

03-23-2007, 04:56 PM

Tollbaby, why should your ex's school records have anything to do with your kid entering school? Is the Quebec school system...ass backwards?

My ex-husband was educated in English (went to English grammar school) but I went to French, so in order for our son to be enrolled into an English school, we had to provide his father's school records to PROVE he was half-English. The kicker? My ex-husband's mom is French LOL

Yes, the Quebec government is ridiculously backward. I'm sorry, but it should be my choice whether I want my children educated in French or in English, and my son can't handle the immersion program that the French school board offers. My daughter, however, does go to French school.

Cia

03-23-2007, 06:20 PM

So let me see if I can wrap my brain-like substance around the Quebecian school system. The French schools teach everything in French and English is a foreign language class and English schools are vice versa. Correct? Or not even close?

When is Quebec going to secede from Canada and become its own little country?

Rapscallion

03-23-2007, 07:14 PM

From what I learned of the politics when I was over there last time, when the federal hush money stops. I suspect my sources were biased.

Rapscallion

Gurndigarn

03-24-2007, 01:23 AM

When is Quebec going to secede from Canada and become its own little country?

The rest of the country keeps hoping, but noooooo, they never quite get around to it.

Shironu-Akaineko

03-24-2007, 01:55 AM

Quebec school is plain bleeped up, that's what it is.
I got bored hardcore with the dumbed down classes all my schooling life and when I got beat up they sent child protection after my mom.
In college, teachers were failing me for the fun of it (I saw proof on my video exam).

English class was super dumbed-down compared to the rest to make sure we didn't learn too much english but just enough bigotry to be a good obedient retarded Gaspésian.

Live here a year and you'll see we really are bigoted and retarded.:(

ArenaBoy

03-24-2007, 01:59 AM

Live here a year and you'll see we really are bigoted and retarded.:(

Does it count if I took a trip up there for a week to Quebec City? I got made fun of because of me speaking France's French and not Canada's French. Good lord, those were some awkward moments.

tollbaby

03-24-2007, 03:30 AM

While I dislike the Quebec government's stances on several issues, I would prefer to be back in Ontario where I grew up and lived for 29 of my 31 years, and I REALLY hate the anti-anglophone bigotry that encompasses about half the province, it's where I have to live for now, and I'd rather not secede from my country :(

Rapscallion

03-24-2007, 05:20 AM

Truth to tell, the only ignorance I noticed this last time I was over was in Quebec City itself. The guy who help pull my snowmobile out of the landscape? Francophone Quebeci, but a very, very nice man. All the staff in the hotel? Same, but very nice people.

I made a note in the ski trip write-up to this effect - it's very much like France in that respect. The countryside French are great, but the Parisians give them a bad name through arrogance and xenophobia.

Rapscallion

Shironu-Akaineko

03-24-2007, 05:23 PM

Does it count if I took a trip up there for a week to Quebec City? I got made fun of because of me speaking France's French and not Canada's French. Good lord, those were some awkward moments.
I did say retarded.
I got beaten up at school for speaking proper french. In a french school.:(

Rapscallion

03-24-2007, 07:36 PM

Apparently, the French taught in schools outside of Quebec province is Parisian French, which is the type I promptly forgot.

Rapscallion

Shironu-Akaineko

03-25-2007, 12:51 AM

Apparently, the French taught in schools outside of Quebec province is Parisian French, which is the type I promptly forgot.

Rapscallion
It was beaten and kicked out of me.
It was either switch to joual, or learn to use dentures at age 7.:cry:

repsac

03-26-2007, 02:39 AM

I've been called a few things in my time, most recently "You damned commie bastard." I forget what the guy wanted, but I think he was upset that I wouldn't accept his tax exempt status on his word alone with no written proof. My retort was "Your point being?"

In short: I am a communist. :D

Family wise though, I've got French on my mother's side, and German on my father's. Family reunions are always interesting. My father's side of the family tends to get drunk and wake up having invaded Poland; while my mother's side just surrenders at the first belch.

Kidding...just kidding.

There's some tie to the french crown on my mother's side though. Distant cousin or something.

Canadian In Maine

03-26-2007, 05:45 PM

Gurndigarn

03-27-2007, 01:07 AM

There are a lot of people around here (Downeast Maine) that refer to black people as "coloureds". That really irks me.

To be fair, I suspect that some of them aren't using it in a bad way. It's just what black people used to be called by the majority of the people, including the blacks. (It's the "C" part of the NAACP.) Maine has a more relaxed pace than most of the country. While people in D.C. and the big universities think that renaming a problem (either a perceived one or a real one) will fix the problem, and much of the rest of the country will follow suit, people from Maine know better, and don't see the point in really trying to learn the euphamism du jour.

(Can "African-American" please die a mercifully swift death soon? It's embarrasing when your politicians ask the French* how the African-Americans in France feel about something.)

* Or any non-US country, really. France was the one I actually heard where it happened, but I'm sure there have been/will be others.

Shironu-Akaineko

03-28-2007, 01:41 AM

KellyHabersham

03-28-2007, 04:00 AM

Not a customer, but a few years back when I was in an AIM chat room, I had some guy (who also claimed to be involved with the Mafia) try to insult me by insisting that I was a gay Jewish man.

Barefootgirl

03-28-2007, 10:47 AM

I made a note in the ski trip write-up to this effect - it's very much like France in that respect. The countryside French are great, but the Parisians give them a bad name through arrogance and xenophobia.

I was drinking with some Basque guys in a bar in Biarritz and commented on how friendly the reception for English people was, compared to some other parts of France(i.e. Paris). One of the men pointed out that a) they were Basques and not French :ashamed: and b) they all hated Parisians as well, so by default, all enemies of the Parisians were their friends. And then we all had another drink...

iradney

03-28-2007, 11:10 AM

Here, blacks are blacks, whites are whites, coloureds are coloureds, etc etc. You can't just say "African" to denote skin colour here. I'm an African, dammit! My family has been for over 6 generations!
As for the insult thing, when I was little and the National Party was still in power, I was called a (sorry for the bad language) "Kaffir-lover" because I had a black friend. I never really grasped the reasoning behind racism...*shakes head*

draggar

03-29-2007, 10:16 PM

I once had an ignoramus come through my register complaing about the f*cking Canadians visiting; he wished all those f*ckers would all go home. I promptly stopped scanning his items and put up the closed sign and started to walk away.

He asked where I was going.

My reply: Sorry, I am one of those f*cking Canadians that you are referring to.

I have never seen someone sink so low with embarassment in my life. The loser deserved it.

I'll invite him to live in south Florida with me for a week. I've lived in Maine (Orono, UMaine) and now I'm here (plus New Hampshire and New Jersey in between). Trust me, Canadians are a piece of cake, at least they (well, except the Quebeqois) speak English. :D

Oh no, it's not just Spanish, you have Español Cubano, Español Puerto Rican, Español de Americano Central, and Creole (part French) and then you throw in all the French Canadians, oh boy! ¿Quien aquí habla Ingles?

My background, 1/4 French-Canadian (I take pills for it, Canukicillin) and 3/4 Irish. Intersting how those two are the ONLY racist terms that aren't thrown at me (along with the white ones). I've had the N word thrown at me (I don't even have a tan!), spic (I don't look Spanish!) one customer even called me a "Puto Latino"!! :confused: Come on! At least call me whitey, cracker, or something!!!