Pet Sins September 1999 IssueMutual marginalization among different non-white ethnic groups in the US
Articles
- Latino Family denied service in Chinese restaurant
- Mexicans greet Chinese with racial slurs
- Korean attacks non-Korean Asian for aiding Korean charity
- Asian American INS staff verbally abuses African
- Mexican dance company representative promotes to whites, ignores Asian
- Asian woman's definition of the 'default' American - Americans of color don't count
- Chinese Sunday School Teacher bashes blacks and Vietnamese
- Asians snubbed in black supermarket
Many of the media images of race relations in the United States is focused on white prejudice against non-whites. But non-whites are equally responsible for discriminating against other non-whites.
In some cases, hostility towards non-whites from a different community may be rooted in a fear of the Other, or simply put, a discomfort with someone perceived as different from oneself. But in other cases, Otherness is clearly not the issue - a person of color chooses to treat whites better than other non-whites despite both being groups being outside his/her own community.