So many people in my field use gender and racial discrimination routinely, but I don’t think the intention is always bad. Sometimes it’s a diplomatic move. Like when going to a diversity event, they will send a mixed crew. Or when meeting a high-profile male client who thinks women are for men’s entertainment only and don’t have a brain of their own, they’ll send a white male, and so on.
A couple years ago, my firm scored a big manufacturing client. 99% of this client’s workforce consists of [thirki] men. They specifically requested that we send a young-girls-only team (I’m not sure if the word “hot” was used as well). So my firm sent a team of three, including me. We felt like everyone there had x-ray vision like the way they were scanning us up and down. Oh and the playboy posters on the factory wall - tauba tauba.
All three of us requested not to be on this client the years following.
I went on international study-based exchange during University. It was me and this Asian guy from my school who were selected for this particular country. We applied for visa at the same time and were told the avg wait time is around 3 weeks. He got his visa within 10 days. I waited 1.5+ months b/c it says “Muslim” on my passport. I had booked my flight, dorm room, some touristy events/places I wanted to go to that required early deposit to reserve a spot. I had to cancel everything and missed the 1st three weeks of classes.
I went to Pakistan recently and I had a Pakistani visa on my passport when I crossed the border into USA they asked a lot of questions about my trip to Pakistan.
I learned my lesson either I get NICOP or I only go to Pakistan the year when my passport is up renewal so I don’t have that Pakistani Visa on my Passport
I don’t see the reason why you reported that salesperson. This hardly was a case of discrimination. It was you who was wearing a totally foreign dress there. So he assumed you did not know proper English. Just a simple sentence in English with proper accent and a smile would probably have erased his doubts.
Well let’s see I was there, you were not. The fact all the customers ahead of me in line were greeted and I was not! She threw a dirty look at me. That’s 2 reasons for me to think it IS discrimination.
And clearly she saw how upset I got and replied back with ‘proper english’ she could’ve apologized and not let a customer walk out of the store, she did NONE.
Me having an accent or not having one doesn’t make any sense? All customers should be treated equally?
how about on ‘interacting’ resident and non resident, punjabi and urdu speaking, urdu speking and sindhi, pathan and punjabi, pathan and urdu speaking???
I’ve personally never been discriminated against. However, while waiting in the queue at the bank once, I did have this horrible woman go on this hateful rant about those “bloody Asians” thinking I was British (I’m quite fair with green eyes and light coloured hair). Her vile rant was triggered by a slight delay resulting from an older Punjabi woman in front of us who was having trouble understanding the teller. Her comments included that "ungrateful Pakis come here, don’t work, claim benefit and get council housing, and have broods of children supported by the taxpayer yet refuse to bloody integrate and learn English, "that we should “deport them all” and loads of other hateful rubbish. Her husband simply stared at her open-mouthed, rather embarrassed by her horrid tirade.
In Canada no never but after coming to the States, yes. I have had rude sales clerks but the worst was when I was pulling out of a Target parking lot in a right turn and was waiting for a break in the traffic to go. A guy on his bike that was riding towards me started spewing racial slurs like you “effen Arab terrorist, get out of the way, dirty paki” all because the idiot had his path blocked by my car and he was driving on the sidewalk when he should have been in the bike lane. Idiot. I made the turn and kept my hand on the horn for the next two minutes as I sped up to him until he disappeared onto a bike path.
I was really upset as I had never been a witness to anything like that before in Canada. The attitude is much different here.
Noo they don’t have religion info on them. Neither do American passports. I never even realized that other countries required people to state their religion on their passports till you asked this.
The Pakistani passport has your religion on it and it has your father’s name on it too. I just checked my passports because I wasn’t sure about the latter. And both of these things are missing from the American one.
