We have the same experiences. I was told quite a few times to "fuck off back to Poland".
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One time an old woman at the bus stop just started talking to me how horrible all the immigrants were and I just stood there, no idea what I was supposed to do. It was a pretty illuminating experience tbh.
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Replying to @Haggazussa
Similar things have happened to me. So once I was on the tube and a person working on the tube started talking to me because he realised I was not in a hurry. I started chatting too because it's often interesting to talk to people from different walks of life, etc.
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Replying to @o_guest @Haggazussa
He immediately started talking about how nobody English (meaning white English) works on the tube any more. He kept going on and on about how Brexit will help these things and that even though he is a Labour supporter that he voted UKIP (this was before referendum).
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Replying to @o_guest @Haggazussa
And he kept going on and on about how immigrants don't integrate. Joke was on him of course as I am so integrated (changed my accent and all) that he had no idea I was not English/British/WTV.
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Replying to @o_guest @Haggazussa
I said it's interesting you think immigrants don't integrate... the only immigrants I know who don't integrate are my dad in Cyprus. He's been living there more than half his life, more than 30 years, and he can't speak very good Cypriot Greek and he hasn't bothered ever applying
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Replying to @o_guest @Haggazussa
for a passport nor doing anything "stereotypically culturally Cypriot". He stared at me. He went, with a disgusting look in his eye, you're not English are you? I said yes, I'm not and I am and I'm not, bye Felicio.
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Replying to @o_guest @Haggazussa
My dad is originally from Sheffield though and is white British. But I was born and grew up in Cyprus, went to a government-run school, etc. I am also 100% British too.
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Replying to @o_guest
Yea I also “passed” as white English so people would often feel comfortable being racist and xenophobic around me, I’ve rarely felt so unsafe, but it’s interesting to hear that this doesn’t seem to be such a rare thing to happen.
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Yes, so-called "passing privilege" is a thing. It's not a privilege sadly as we just get to hear more abuse that they keep secret from those they identify correctly as not white. Here's a little something I and others wrote: http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Passing
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