To John

To John
posted by Henry Lee in Germany forum 19 Mar 2011, 06:19
Good point John.." I love my country immensely but also very much enjoy getting to know and experience other cultures". and just to add to it, some of us are here because of other reasons like job or relationships. And to be honest, I have lived in five countries and visited many others and must admit that racism is everywhere. There is an old West Indian say, "Come live with Me & Come visit me are completely two different things". It is the same thing in everything we do in life. People can visit you and we will treat them nice, but when they are here to stay, we start having, seeing or finding faults about them or you in them. Some of us are lucky because we have not come across full blown racism in our lives, some of us are unfortunate to experience the worst side of humanity and others have experienced a little bit of both. At the end of the day, we should watch when we point the finger and see how much is pointing back at us. Racism is a horrible defensive mechanism we all have to some extent to defend ourselves and I have seen and experience it from all works of life and types of people.

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