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Replying to @hisotalus
Finding out these people walk amongst us is depressing. I think the most depressing things I experienced vis-à-vis racism and the public was in York when I first moved here, because I had high expectations and ofc because racism sucks, was:
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Replying to @o_guest @hisotalus
Discovering how much the people of York hate Chinese and Polish people. Builders referred to our building having too many "kitchen sinks" (we initially thought literal basins as our kitchens had 2 big ones but the builder's corrected us it was about our Hong Kong flatmates).
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Replying to @o_guest @hisotalus
Some of my flatmates in undergrad, especially one guy to the extreme, was also very aggressive towards our fellow Hong Kong flatmates. As I, 2nd year, showed around some 1st years (Singaporeans) some 15 year old boys sang a song they just made up that went "ching chong Chinaman".
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Replying to @o_guest @hisotalus
As I walked down the streat speaking on the phone to my mum (speaking not English), I got screamed at to "go home", spat at, burped at, etc. The public can be brutal.
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Replying to @o_guest @hisotalus
Sorry to hear that - this kinda shit can weigh heavy. I'd like to believe there are more kind people in the world than assholes - it's just that assholes make more noise b/c, well, they're assholes
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Replying to @ar0mcintosh @hisotalus
It's a long time ago. London is better.
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But yes, thank you for solidarity!
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To be clear, that's not to say London is better full stop. But my experience in London after moving down from Yorkshire (which is where my dad is from originally, Sheffield) has involved less racism. Definitely not zero, of course.
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Oh the wonderful life in York...
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Yuuup!
*white-skinned — trust me, racists do not think Cypriots are white. 
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