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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
Do you know what I've noticed and find really sad? Over the last couple of weeks, and especially since Thursday, there's been a noticeable difference in a lot of my immigrant customers. They're making obvious deliberate efforts to make small talk / chat about sports and events / generally making clear efforts to, for want of a better term, "be liked".
Not that this is a bad thing in itself, of course the outcome of such efforts can only be a good thing. But the REASONS for it - the obvious desperation to be accepted and liked and not glared at or whispered about (and believe me there has been plenty of that) - is very sad.
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I don’t know about you but because racism and bigotry is at the forefront at the moment, I make a special effort with foreign shop assistants to be extra pleasant. Before they were just shop assistants like anyone else but because I’m now aware of how they are possibly feeling, it makes me want interact with them more. I like to think they are being extra nice because they are feeling accepted by all us none bigot/racists and not because they are attempting to be more accepted.