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Parishht,
YOU ARE RIGHT 100%
It`s always a few "Bad Apples" who hurt everybody esle.
It`s the same ANYWHERE we go.
I have a story for you guys, that proves your point;
One day at was at the Base Comissary Store, I was buying green-plantains, which is part of Puertorricans diet 99% of the time. I was waiting in line with a bunch of plantains in my cart, and a couple of Puertorricans behind started talking **** about me and the plantains. They though I was American, because they said in spanish, " Look at this Gringo buying all this plantains" ( I don`t look like a typical Puertorrican physically speaking ), so the guy though I did not understand spanish. I acted like I did not understand. They kept talking ****. One even said; "He will have to stick`em up his *** because he does not know that they are not bananas ( Plantains can not be eaten without cooking them, they taste really bad raw ). They were laughing hard. I let them talk until I payed my stuff, and turned around and told them in pure spanish, " They are for tostones" a chip we make with fried plantain. They realized what they had done, and you guys know, in the Military that can cost someones rank/money/or even jail time. I did not say one more word, they started begging me from not reporting the incident, I realized they were also in the service. I reported this to their Command, they for sure got their asses chewed by their C.O., I hope they learned the lesson.
It`s a complex problem, it comes from ALL sides.
In my case, I try to preach against racism or prejudice whenever I see it. We all must get rid of this "desease" of our Society`s, at least one offender at a time, and not ever become one of them again.