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I am pretty much of the opinion, you're in my club, I'm gonna hustle you no matter what color your skin is... but:
I always approach Asians and Caucasians first because I find I am the most popular with them (especially Asians). However I've had problems with both these ethnic groups as far as being disrespected and not getting paid. But I find that they're the easiest to hustle and I usually have more in common with them and more chemistry conversation wise, so they're the most enjoyable customers for me.
I approach Africans Americans next. I'm really hit and miss with them; some of my best customers have been African American but I've also been laughed at and booed by them on stage. I either get along with them super well, or they hate me. Payment wise its also hit and miss... some argued with me over paying for all the dances and others hooked me up in tips. I will however NEVER approach a couple or group of African Americans if there is a woman there.
I approach Hispanics if there's no one else to go to or they've been eyeing me. A good portion of the ones that come to my club do not speak English and are very broke and grabby. I get propositioned by them a lot, often before they've even agreed to a dance, and when I do get dances its usually 2-4-1s with no tip. They almost never buy me drinks and just want me to sit with them for free.
Indians and Middle-Easterners are the only customers I really avoid. I find they are incredibly rude to me most of the time and that's pretty much the main reason. In dances they're also pretty grabby. But I have one great great customer who is very sweet to me and spends a ton of money who is Indian, so obviously there are exceptions.
It's not really about racism to me, I've dated guys of all races and I don't have the same conceptions OTC. But from a hustling and money making stand point that's how it is.
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audrey_k
I am pretty much of the opinion, you're in my club, I'm gonna hustle you no matter what color your skin is... but [Audrey K explains the policies she has found made her the most money over an extended period of time in the business]
It's not really about racism to me, I've dated guys of all races and I don't have the same conceptions OTC. But from a hustling and money making stand point that's how it is.
Very well put.
I don't think there is anything wrong with dancers going for a certain 'type' of guy first, whether it be based on clothing, grooming, race, conversational ability, whatthehellever.
We are talking about women trying to make money in a high stress environment with a bunch of drunk horny guys, not a fucking wine and cheese party with a bunch of social activists watching how you act around that strangely dressed man with the funny accent.
And we are talking about hiring policies in clubs in general, all over the USA. Obviously, as one member pointed out, there are racist motherfuckers in control of certain clubs in a wide variety of locations, and their hiring policies often suck. And they get away with it.
And of course only a serious bigot will fail to be aware that there are always exceptions to every general rule, especially where dress and stylistic comportment are concerned. So talking about that one thug of whatever race that likes Metallica and spent a bunch of money doesn't change the fact that thugs of all races don't generally spend nearly as much money and are very frequently a pain in the ass in most clubs. Every DJ I have ever talked to in person or on this forum, and by far the majority of dancers, agrees on this point emphatically. (Now watch a DJ will come on here and tell me I am full of shit ;D). Maybe in Miami it's different, but I don't want to work there.
And sure as shit there are untold thousands of older, conservatively dressed white guys who are guilty of literal sexual assault, and rude, obnoxious, insulting behavior in the clubs.
As far as working with black dancers, this has been my experience, and is not meant to be a scientific study for publication in an academic journal:
I have worked with around 2,000 dancers total. Of that number about 300-400 were black. Less than 20 wanted any kind of rock or techno/dance music at all, ever, no matter what the clientele or management wanted to hear. Less than 20 were really, really good tippers (not the same 20 or so, either!). The ratios have been much different with dancers of all other ethnic origins--except maybe the dancers from England I have worked with, who tend to be the worst tippers of all, but there have only been about ten of them to go by. This is of course only my experience, but I suspect it isn't unusual.
This does NOT mean I no longer ask the black dancers what they want to hear when they go onstage, or fail to accommodate them in their musical choices--so long as it doesn't conflict with the music policy determined by the owner. Only an idiot will fail to try to please a new dancer, or one he or she has to deal with on a regular basis who tips the minimum requirement without a hassle.
The truth of the matter is--and this might surprise people who might for whatever reason take offense to this post--the black dancers tend to like me, again for whatever reason I don't know. Possibly partly because I know what songs to play that they will like without pissing off the owners and driving customers out the door.
ETA--by far the worst 'type' of dancer to deal with from my experience has been the 'white trash' crackhead. There were a lot of those in Daytona, especially in that one really rough club.
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Well, where I live there is a specific white club, Babydoll's. They play country music every third song, and classic rock every sixth. Absolutely no hip hop or rap! They try to make it as non urban as possible, but it's a mixture of white men, and various blue collar ethnicities. It's the least expensive cover, so it gets busy with a diverse demographic.
That's EXACTLY the club I was talking about in the OP. Thanks, JD.
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I feel like a more politically correct term would be urban and non urban clubs. At least where I am from, the "black" or "urban" clubs are not so much "black" anymore. It's more of an equal mix of black/mexican/arab/white, and they play all hip hop and rap.
When I'm at work I approach customers based on their overall demeanor, not race.
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i will approach customers of any race or ethnicity, but i will avoid youngish guys, especially in groups, of any race or ethnicity as well. yes, i do notice that some customers will be more likely to find me attractive than others but i will at least try.
i have noticed that the clubs or managers themselves do seem to use their own preferences when deciding who to hire. it does upset me seeing that in one particular club a woman who is black or white has to be in great shape, totally done up hair, nail, makeup, etc to get hired while he will hire pretty much any asian or hispanic woman that applies. he has told me himself that if he was the manager doing the hiring when i applied he wold not have hired me (im white) or also a top-earning black dancer. while some of it does seem to coincide with local customer preferences, i do think the discrepancy in the hiring practices is a little fucked up.
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Djoser
As far as working with black dancers, this has been my experience, and is not meant to be a scientific study for publication in an academic journal:
I have worked with around 2,000 dancers total. Of that number about 300-400 were black. Less than 20 wanted any kind of rock or techno/dance music at all, ever, no matter what the clientele or management wanted to hear. Less than 20 were really, really good tippers (not the same 20 or so, either!). The ratios have been much different with dancers of all other ethnic origins--except maybe the dancers from England I have worked with, who tend to be the worst tippers of all, but there have only been about ten of them to go by. This is of course only my experience, but I suspect it isn't unusual.
This does NOT mean I no longer ask the black dancers what they want to hear when they go onstage, or fail to accommodate them in their musical choices--so long as it doesn't conflict with the music policy determined by the owner. Only an idiot will fail to try to please a new dancer, or one he or she has to deal with on a regular basis who tips the minimum requirement without a hassle.
The truth of the matter is--and this might surprise people who might for whatever reason take offense to this post--the black dancers tend to like me, again for whatever reason I don't know. Possibly partly because I know what songs to play that they will like without pissing off the owners and driving customers out the door.
ETA--by far the worst 'type' of dancer to deal with from my experience has been the 'white trash' crackhead. There were a lot of those in Daytona, especially in that one really rough club.
Djoser I am one of the rare black dancers who has always danced to rock. I don't dance to any rap/r&b whatsoever and I do not play what I call half ass rock like Kid Rock, Linkin Park, and Limp Bizkit. I don't listen to rap/r&b in "real life" either so I'm not familiar with any of the new rappers/singers. Its not because of club rules either, at my club (which is mostly white) we can dance to whatever we want. I typically dance to TOOL, Deftones, From Autumn to Ashes, Placebo, Depeche Mode, Misnistry, Killswitch Engage, and occassionally older rock like Journey, Metallica, Pantera, Ozzy, and ZZ Top. Anyway it is extremely hard for me to dance to rap/r&b. Even with songs I kind of like, I just can't get into and feel really stupid up there. Its hard to get into the song when just can't get into it and don't dance to music with that kind of beat. I know that dancers should be able to dance to anything, but dancing to rap/r&b kills me. The DJ has to literally beg me to dance to some sort of rap/r&b when we happen to have a black crowd or lots of blacks in the tiprail. It doesn't happen often but I typically don't change my music except for 5-6 times when there were big spenders who were only tipping girls dancing to rap/r&b. One day I thought, maybe the girls that dance to rap/r&b feel the same way about their music that I feel about mine, so I can understand their frustration when clubs completely ban rap/r&b. Its definetely not your fault at all and I can understand somewhat why clubs do it. I've seen girls act like jackasses to DJ's, so why some girls would become disrespectful to you is beyond me, I can just understand their annoyance at the same time. It definetely won't kill the customer base to play a little bit of rap/r&b. I had an older (white)guy tell me that I was dancing to 'souless music' when I was onstage and ask why I didn't dance to Alisha Keys or something. Even though I was happy, smiling, and obviously knew the song I was dancing to, that was very upbeat, it just happened to be rock. I get "why are you dancing to that? You would look waaayyyy more sexy dancing to" - insert rap r&b song here. I get this ALL the time.
The best club (as far as music goes) was one that limited the rap/r&b. Not outright ban it, but only played 2-4 rap or r&b songs an hour at the most. They had to move some girls around to accommadate this, so you had to be 'on lookout' and really pay attention to when you were up for stage until all the girls were in because they would have to move the rotation a bit, but it kept everyone happy for the most part.
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MarvelGirl
^^^
Yes, if I was a tolerant person I would just ignore the dozen times I've had to have a young black guy thrown out of the club because he refused to leave me alone. I would just tolerate him walking up to me when I'm talking to a paying customer and tell the customer not to buy dances from this "greedy bitch".
Maybe I'd just go ahead and give them the free dances they want or I should really be tolerant and go ahead and let them pimp me out because hey, I'm there to make everybody feel equal and happy not to make money for my bills, right?
You want to call me ignorant go for it. I already said I'll approach people who are acting like CUSTOMERS but a jackass white guy will leave me alone when I tell him to go fuck himself while a jackass black guy will follow me around and do everything in his power to destroy my night until I have him thrown out. I will not waste my time on it, if that offends you then so be it.
Since I don't know you and I have never been to your club or Vegas? in general, I believe is where you work, then I will take back my ignorant mofo comment and apologize to you and anyone else that was offended by the comment. It was not directed at anyone in specific, but I do apologize. Anyway, I'm not going to lie. The thought that every single black guy that comes to your club is rude and follows you around all night just sounds absolutely incredibly ridiculous. And nobody said anything about letting someone disrespect you or whatever. That is not what I meant by tolerant. I was talking about dancers that flat out don't ask guys of a certain race for a dance. When someone is generalizing a whole group of people, then it is going to get at you, whether we are talking the SC patrons or not. I'm going to get offended whether you or anyone else is trying to or not. That is just me. I try not to stereotype/generalize because it is constantly happening to me. Whenever I see myself thinking 'Oh gawd there are a bunch of blacks/asians coming in and I'm not gonna sell to them, they are going to waste my time,' I remind myself not to knock them till I've tried them, and of the occassions where I have been wrong.
In my own experience (and I am not directing this at you Marvel, I don't know you)a lot of dancers seem overstate things with words like "they always," even though that is not the case. They seem to remember when a race of people that is not of their own and/or who they typically sell to, is rude and disrespectful. Girls at my club are always saying "Oh so and so are always grabby/rude/cheap whatever" One dancer who I've worked with forever said that black guys were always too handsy with her and the Indian customers sucked and were cheap and rude. I knew for a firsthand fact that this was not true as I knew a few Indian (as in from India) men (one in particular) who paid her very well and not handsy at all. I told her really? What about the black guy who got double dances from us last week? Not handsy at all. What about the black guy (who looked ghetto as hell, btw) who got 5 dances from you 2 weeks ago, who you said was super nice and sat on his hands? What about the Indian man who spent several hundred dollars and was a great guy? How can you say "always" when that is clearly not the case. I hear this all the time and I know that I cannot possibly get the only blacks/indians who are nice. Have I ever gotten a black/latino/indian/ man who was an utterly complete asshole, hell fucking yes. Does it seem like every black/latino/indian man that comes through the door is fuckwad, hell yes. Are there also times where every white guy I dance with is either trying to take me home, fuck me for money, and is a grabby licky asshole on the couch? Hell fucking yes. Just 2-3 weeks ago, every single guy was trying to grab my boobs, and/or lick me on the couch, after I told them no. Every single one tried one or the other. Every single one of those guys was white. What I'm saying is there seem to be times where every race of people can be written off as "not worth it" based on some bad experiences. If I said "every white I've danced for this week was an ass and I'm not going to dance for them," I would make no money. I'm not trying to say white guys are bad custys (they are not), I LOVE white men, my husband is white. I take the term "always" with a grain of salt when it comes to race matters. That is my experience.
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Carmen, you would be welcome at my club anytime!
But one thing bothers me--your name! Not Carmen, I have always loved that name since when I was a little boy I fell madly in love with the lead character in the opera Carmen.
But why don't you call yourself Carmen, or maybe something else instead of 'Hot4ablackchick'?? Isn't that almost the same as implicitly accepting the 'fact' (not a fact at all as we have seen) that black chicks aren't usually as hot?
I'm really not meaning to mess with you at all, I'm just being honest, I have wondered about this before. Your avatar is tiny but you do indeed appear to be pretty Fing hot, lol! whether you are black or not shouldn't have anything to do with it, I would think.
You don't have to change your name (;D), it's not a big deal, it just made me wonder is all.
And yeah it's weird that guys would say you need to dance to soul or R & B. That's a bit fucked up IMO.
I do try like hell to play what the dancers like if at all humanly possible, without getting fired lol. Even if I think the crowd would rather hear AC/DC, if the dancer wants R & B or rap I'll play something like Ciara or Lil Kim and pass on the 50cent and hardcore rap. Then play the fucking AC/DC for the next rock girl to go up instead.
Except that one Race Week, I don't think I have ever in ten years played rock (or techno) for a girl that wants R & B, unless maybe she has stiffed me more than twice in which case if I am in a really bad mood she'll get whatever I want haha. But even then you are sort of cutting your own throat since if the dancer is obviously pissed off and yelling from the stage, the customers will not be impressed! There's a fine line between not taking shit from a dancer who isn't tipping you and fucking up the entire show just to get revenge, never a good idea.
I have to say this thread has actually gone a lot more smoothly than I thought it would. I think people need to be honest instead of PC all the fucking time, and try to understand each other instead of venting frustration on the wrong person (maybe being honest), or pretending to love everyone all the time no matter what which maybe Superman could do, but I doubt it.
God knows the black women of this country probably have it tougher than any other group, except maybe the Indians who were basically wiped off the Northern American continent by the White man--but even than that was in the past (I admit i don't know much about the plight of Native Americans now).
Again being honest instead of PC it seems to me that black men so often tend to disrespect women of their own race in particular, which pisses me off. I also think it's fucking weird the way black men will specifically target white women for conquest, as if they need to prove something. But maybe it's partly because they only see white women in Playboy, etc. When was the last time you saw a black Playmate?? And why when interracial couples are portrayed in the media it is always, always a white woman with a black guy? Never, hardly ever a black woman with a white guy?? WTF is wrong with a white man and a black woman liking each other?
Getting back to the clubs though--it takes a lot of guts to get on a stage at all, much less dance, much less take your clothes off, much less deal with all the white, black, brown and yellow assholes trying to shove fingers up your ass. Then to have to deal with racist managers, well yeah that would suck.
BTW I saw Jenna tonight when I stopped in my club, she is the beautiful black dancer I mentioned in my first reply (I showed her what I wrote about her being a living doll here the next night and called her that on the mike a couple times). I told her she was henceforth to be known as 'The Living Doll'. She likes it...
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re: racism in the strip club.
some black customers would be irate that i was slamming it onstage to front242 or nirvana, but what did i care, since white guys were throwing 5s down?
alternatively, black and white guys would be mad i was dancing to spanish music, but the mexicans and guatemalans were throwing 5s down, so i didn't give a damn.
i always took the crowd into account even though i never compromised my music choices (i don't like rap/r&b unless it has a heavy guitar component, like funk or something), so girls would be all 'girl you will not make money' and then be shocked at my stage littered in cash because i considered the crowd before going up.
the funny thing was that white guys who completely refused to spend on dances would throw down for my stages given my music choices. go figure.
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It is weird how guys will tip a lot more if they like the music.
I never cared way back when I was a customer, or now on my nights off. I watch the woman and if she looks good and is putting on a show she gets the money, whether she is dancing to Frank Sinatra or KMFDM or Gorilla Zoe (my current favorite rap BTW, I fucking love his stuff).
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I'll tell you this Pt's wouldn't hire me, but they hired this crack head looking bitch, White, fake boobs, bad blonde hair. Everybody who saw this girl said she looked like a crack head, but they hired that over me. Also I worked with her at another club, and a guy told his friend he wouldn't tip me cause I'll buy drugs with the money, but he tipped her. Riiiiight, I don't even drink, everyone knows it, but I'm gonna buy drugs with the money.
Also I was the only black girl working at this one club, and this dude used to tip everyone but me. Like he would wait till I passed by to make sure that I saw him tip the other girls. The only reason that didn't bother me was he was only giving them one dollar.
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hot4ablackchick
In my own experience .... a lot of dancers seem overstate things with words like "they always," even though that is not the case. They seem to remember when a race of people that is not of their own and/or who they typically sell to, is rude and disrespectful.
That is an excellent point and something I've often thought about myself. I try not to do this, because I know there are exceptions to everything and really, people are all just people at the core. This is why I don't avoid any guys who give a definite signal of interest. I think more girls would be better off if they recognized this point and made an effort to keep their judgment in perspective when making notes of which customer types are usually good or not. I do believe that often it's not necessarily that "most (insert race or culture here) men are cheap" but that we tend to notice more when it's someone of a different group than our own.
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The majority of eastern european guys I have come across ITC seem to have a 'grey area' between strip clubs and brothels so they aren't my first choice of client for this reason but I'll sometimes still give it a go if its not that busy. I've not worked in eatern europe so I have no idea if the SC's/Brothels cross over or not.
I have also found the majority of guys who fancy themselves as Gangsta's (and there are some in every race/colour) to have an 'I'm too good to be in here' attitude so I don't really bother with them.
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Djoser,
Thank you! You seem to be an awesome DJ and if I was ever in the Key West area I would love to at least visit. I've also found you on Myspace and sent you a Friend Request. I assure you there are much larger pics of me on my page! Well anyway to answer your question, I just call myself hot4ablackchick out of sheer fun. Its really a running joke at my club, because I hear it all the time from customers. Customers tell me all the time that I am "Hot for a black chick" and that I am "way too beautiful to ONLY be black" as if you have to biracial to possibly be an attractive black woman. So I say it out fun and just have 'owned the phrase' so to speak. It used to piss me off but now I have to hold back laughter whenever a custy says it. In a gentle way I remind them that what they just said is offensive and silly. I keep it light and don't let it spoil a sell now. Now if I could only find a way to deal with the guys who say "wow you don't SOUND black," or "Theres not any slang in your voice" Grrrrrrr....
I don't know why you don't see black women/white men together. Its definetely more taboo than white girls/black men. I guess I am taboo because my hubby is white! I've met several (well most actually) who say they would not even consider dating a white man. White men seem to think all black women do not like them, and that they don't stand a chance as far as sex and dating goes. I have only been approached OTC by white men on a few occassions. 90% of those white men that did approach me OTC, were so ghetto they made Lil' John seem like Bryant Gumble.
Most of the black guys that come in my club go for the white girls or the thick, big booty girls. I am not thick at all, I have NO ass, and I have big fake implants. I'm generally not their type. They will usually take a thick girl over me, even if they are really ugly and have a bad body.
Oh and the playmate of the year this year was a black girl. Her name is Ida Ljungqvist. She is foriegn, and she is VERY beautiful. I believe this is their second pmoy who was black. I've been a playboy subscriber for years and they do have black playmates from time to time. Not a lot, but at least one every year. Its coming along at least. I would still like to see more black/Indian/Latino/Asian women in it though. Now Penthouse OTOH, well they can fuck right off. I got Penthouse for two years and NEVER saw one black girl. Only white girls and maybe a handful of hispanic girls. I'm not talking about a black pet of the month either. There was NEVER a black women in any layout in general. Not even an ad. Penthouse has more layouts than playboy does, and never did they have a black girl in the magazine, in two years! I did not renew my subscription to say the least.
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Damn, I need to start picking my music for the crowd, lol. The only time I've ever thought about what the customers want is if someone mentions a specific song they want to hear. Usually I just think "well I'm taking my clothes off, what do I want to hear while I do it?" :P
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ALWAYS choose your music for the crowd! I think the only time I've ever danced to a cross-over hip hop song was the weekend the NBA All Star game was in town! LOL!
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ALWAYS choose your music for the crowd! I think the only time I've ever danced to a cross-over hip hop song was the weekend the NBA All Star game was in town! LOL!
+1. I always always scan the crowd before I go up. I want all eyes (and money) on me so I cater to who's in the club at the time of my show.
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hot4ablackchick
Customers tell me all the time that I am "Hot for a black chick"
When I saw your screen name, I took it to be in the context of a someone who has the hots for a black chick. I can't believe that dudes say that shit to you. I would be pissed if somebody said I was "hot for an italian chick." So fucked up.
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hot4ablackchick
Well anyway to answer your question, I just call myself hot4ablackchick out of sheer fun. Its really a running joke at my club, because I hear it all the time from customers. Customers tell me all the time that I am "Hot for a black chick" and that I am "way too beautiful to ONLY be black" as if you have to biracial to possibly be an attractive black woman. So I say it out fun and just have 'owned the phrase' so to speak. It used to piss me off but now I have to hold back laughter whenever a custy says it. In a gentle way I remind them that what they just said is offensive and silly. I keep it light and don't let it spoil a sell now. Now if I could only find a way to deal with the guys who say "wow you don't SOUND black," or "Theres not any slang in your voice" Grrrrrrr....
I don't know why you don't see black women/white men together. Its definetely more taboo than white girls/black men. I guess I am taboo because my hubby is white! I've met several (well most actually) who say they would not even consider dating a white man...
Well yeah now the name makes a lot of sense, and it's funny now that I know what you mean! And how cool is it that we are better friends because of this thread?
And wow you are hot, lol! ;D
When I said you never see white men and black women together I was really referring to the media, which still seems to avoid this like the plague. While constantly plastering pictures all over of white women and black men as the ideal image of the mixed race couple. Like black men are hot, but black women, not. If I was a black woman this would fucking piss me off, as I'm sure it pisses off the Klan guys, haha! Not really helping the relations between the races if it's done in this contrived way.
OTOH maybe the white guys really aren't attractive to black women in general, and vica versa. The Penthouse/Playboy thing again, etc. Who knows? Though certainly some white guys do like black women in the clubs.
I just think it's weird, and if the media were to really be PC, as they are quite obviously trying to do, they should 'mix it up' equally.
For some reason the black women seem to like me though--though it's certainly not a guarantee. I grew up in Detroit and used to go downtown as a little kid and hang out with the black women my mom worked with, maybe that has something to do with it.
Oh as far as the music fitting the crowd, it's amazing how much the tipping will improve if the guys really like the music (not to mention the general party mood). I literally cannot count the times I have had guys specifically request certain songs for the specific purpose of tipping to those songs! Plus you can just see and feel it happening if you watch the club and especially the tiprail.
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^ I wanna come down and work in your club! You sound like youd be a lot of fun to work with. ;D
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I've seen racism go in all directions in the club. It's not necessarily like being one race is bad, it really just depends on the club. What makes my blood boil though is when people expect you to act a certain way because of the color of your skin... and therefore they treat you a certain way before you have even said or done anything.
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I'm not 100% PC, but it seems to me that most racism comes from people who are afraid of what they don't understand. Then you add alcohol and people's inhibitions start coming down... here's a direction to take the conversation, though...
Why are old people allowed to be racist? I know they lived through a time when it was 'acceptable', but times have changed.
And another one...why is the United States one of the only countries in the world that forces people together the way we do? Look at Japan and Russia. They are nearly segregated. Why?
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And another one...why is the United States one of the only countries in the world that forces people together the way we do? Look at Japan and Russia. They are nearly segregated. Why?
America is almost completely populated by immigrants. We live in the land of opportunity because we can live and work together.
Dallas is actually very segregated compared to my experience in Seattle. (Minus the Tacoma area) It's a lot more peaceful when people blend in together.
People are the same; cultures are what holds them apart.
Take two people of the same racial background, but opposing political beliefs, and it's easy to see that skin color has nothing to do with how people act.
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Donovan28
And another one...why is the United States one of the only countries in the world that forces people together the way we do? Look at Japan and Russia. They are nearly segregated. Why?
Huh? How? Can you further explain..that makes zero sense. How is the US the only country that "forces people together"? Especially compared to Russia part and Japan. How are these countries segregated, at all? **I'm especially curious about Russia, considering that there are thousands of sub-ethnicities in that culture living and working together daily. Are you talking about white versus black?)
For a country of diverse citizens that get along better, see Brazil. There is still lots of blatant racism, but Brazilian people see themselves as Brazilian, no matter what country their grandparents came from, or the color of their skin.
This is just me relating what every Brazilian I've ever met has told me, so its all anecdotal. But there are plenty of "melting pot" countries, where people are forced together, that are less racist than the US. Hell, I think its even far better in Canada and Australia.