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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was some study I read once that said Americans who live in a diverse country tend to use things like eye color, hair color and style to identify people. Whereas people from more homogeneous countries like Japan or China use more subtle differences in facial features. This would explain Americans’ struggle to identify some people from others. It’s cultural. Even Black people do it to Asians. Hell, my neighbor who I’ve been living next to for 10 months just thought I was visiting because I wasn’t wearing my hat like I usually do. Dramatically changing your hairstyle frequently could be confusing. It’s awesome but yeah people may take a minute to recognize you. Doesn’t mean they are racist. They might be racist but that comment or requirement doesn’t have to be. [/quote]
My DH's cousins, in a small town in Colorado, of all ages, would not speak to me when introduced and ignored me like a plague. I am a white immigrant from Eastern Europe, and when all this happened I was a young 23-year-old sitting with them for some 4th of July parade. Not a single word to me from over 20 people.
If they did this to a blonde, young woman that looks like them, what are they doing to OP and POC? Hispanics there were called some 15 years ago with derogatory names, even though they kept the agriculture economy of their small town going. I haven't been back there and don't intend to. As they got to know me, occasionally an aunt would say a word to me, kids ran away from me.
Just because "blacks do it to Asians, whites do it to Blacks, etc." we should not say it is not racist BCS it is xenophobic to the extreme. It means you are not looking at people that look different from you, come from places that you don't know, speak the language that you don't, as a human! You are subhumanizing them, and in OP's case forcing HER to change her be cardio so YOU don't have to make an effort to be open-minded and to actually look at her. Look at her face, see her as a human. These people might have dementia, but they are also racist.
Think, if they can't recognize her, they should equally not recognize so many new white faces that come and go there as the turnaround it constant. It is literally saying, we are not comfortable with YOU and your looks. In this case, it is racist and sexist. In other cases, it might be only sexist. It is on par if they asked a black man to lose his beard as it is perceived as aggressive to their white residents.[/quote]

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