[RealJames]

I've been out of this thread for a while now, just got caught up, it seems to have gotten pretty heated.

I'll throw in my experiences, without agreeing or disagreeing with anyone.

I grew up in the Caribbeans, an island called Guadeloupe, at the time the only white people on the island were tourists and maybe a handful of families, which I never once saw. The rest of the population was black. So that sets the scene, 1 white kid, an island of black people.

The discrimination I experienced there was unparalleled as it was socially acceptable and no police or institution would defend the rights of a white person. Even at 7 years old I was beaten and ostracized and, I can't even go into it. Obviously not everyone was like that, but it was socially accepted. I did have a lot of black friends, and still love those friends.

Then I lived in Canada, where multiculturalism is in full bloom, and in my opinion is very successful. So what if some of the immigrants don't speak English well or in some cases at all, they were all kind to me and discrimination in any direction was dealt with socially very strongly (not institutionally, your country is what it's people make of it, not it's leaders). I'll admit that white people in Canada tend to be a tad nationalistic, as in anti-america, which bonds them to their immigrant brothers in a unified front. Regardless though, the examples of racism I experienced in Canada were basically from fob people who had no idea how things worked in Canada and after a few days or weeks they got friendly with everyone.

Then I lived in Japan, back to square 1, being the extreme minority, the difference here being that if any actual outward acts of racism or discrimination occurred I'd be so thrown back by it. Discrimination is in fact prevalent in Japan, but it's well hidden from eyes and at times it's discrimination that ends up in my favor.

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MissMisa, I'm sad to hear about what's happened to you, I think that up until I was 7 I either experienced the same thing or a much worse version of it, I can't imagine having stayed there any longer. Which brings me to my question, why do you stay there?