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Originally Posted by Smithy

No, racism is based on a system of oppression, other races can be prejudice but not racist

I agree with this. The only time I ever experianced something like the story you told Caitlin was years ago when I lived in London. I worked in a bar so I would finish work late and get the tube home, it was about a 10/15min walk from the tube station to where I was living and one night on the way home a group of Asian guys started shouting stuff at me as I passed them, I ignored them and kept walking and one of them shouted "stupid ****ing white bitch" I was taken aback because it was the first time someone had used my colour as an insult against me but because as a white person I haven't been treated badly because of my skin colour it didn't effect me really (other than just being intimidated because a group of guys were harressing me late at night while I was on my own) what did effect me more was other occasions when the fact that I was Irish was used as an insult against me and that's because I felt there was a deeper history behind that, if you know what I mean? which I would imagine black people or Asian people might feel like?