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A Guide to Talking about Racism | 16 Module 1 – What is Racism? OBJECTIVES OF THE MODULE - To consider what we think racism is and to understand what others think it is. - To provoke reflection on some of the mechanisms related to racism: prejudices, stereotypes, identity, and racism. - To understand that racist behavior translates into privileges and weapons of power for some groups and into disadvantages for other groups. 1 A Critical Incident 2 “I’m a girl from a South American country and I’m sixteen years old. I’ve never talked to Spanish people like that, about why racism exists. To solve racism? That’s really hard because, I don’t know, the truth is… I think that we have to talk about racism more.” “I came to Spain because my mother married my step-father. But even so, I don’t know the real reason she came. Before I came, my friends gave me a big stuffed Garfield this big and a card, but I didn’t bring them, I left them there, in my country. I didn’t want to bring anything from there. I took it all and on a piece of land my aunt had for fruit trees and everything, I took it all and I buried it there, I didn’t bring anything at all from there. The truth is, I 2 The opinions included in this section were given by the young people with whom we worked on the racism project: INTER Group: Racism: A Teenagers’ Perspective. Results of a Preliminary Research from Madrid (Spain) [ El Racismo desde el punto de vista de los adolescentes. Resultados de un trabajo de investigación preliminar realizado en Madrid (España) ]. Navreme publications volume 6. Vienna: Navreme. 2007.
Module 1 – What is Racism? | 17 didn’t come here because I wanted to, they made me come. ” “My first feelings in Spain were that I was really confused. I felt really bad. I didn’t like it. I wanted to go to my country, I felt weird and I couldn’t sleep. Here, you feel more discriminated against because you’re Latino. People looked at me suspiciously. In class, my classmates sent me notes about being an immigrant and all that. In geography class, because I didn’t know anything about Spain when I got here, the geography teacher made me work harder than anyone, you know?” “I’ve seen several racist incidents. A friend of mine, good heavens! They locked her in the locker room, they stole her gym clothes and didn’t return them! Just like that, and I just couldn’t believe it. Yes, yes, yes, I mean, they didn’t do anything to me, but my friend… She would go to change, they would steal her clothes, they called her all sorts of names and told her to go back to her own country. Another scene that I saw the other day on the subway, that surprised me a lot, was that, there were three seats together, right? And a black girl was sitting in one of them, and next to her there were two seats, so there was an empty one and then another girl. So, another young girl and an older man got on the subway. So the young girl went to sit down, but when she saw there was an older man, she said, ‘Do you want to sit down?’ And he said, ‘No, I don’t want to sit next to anyone who is black.’ So, out of these two seats, there was one empty one and a girl. So that girl left and the man went to sit down in the seat that was not next to the black girl. So then the young girl sat down and covered up the other seat and said, “Excuse me, but I don’t want to sit next to anyone who is racist, either.’ And the man left. But I was really surprised that people really are treated pretty badly.” “They tell me when, um... walking down the street ‘Fucking sudacas.’ And no, I don’t like that, no. Yeah, the thing is that they’ve always said that to me, I don’t know how many times they’ve said it to me, about “go back home,” or stuff like that. They tell me that I’m illegal, too, that I can’t be here, “go and starve.” The thing is they’re hypocrites, hypocrites, hypocrites. They laugh in my face. My mother’s boss told me that I should use something to make my skin whiter. She said: ‘Why don’t you use a cream?’ I got mad, of course. I told her no, because I liked being that color and that’s it.” “What I don’t like is that they think we don’t know anything. Coming from another country doesn’t mean that we come to steal, we come to get ahead, to feel more comfortable and all that. I don’t like it when they think we are handicapped.” “When someone insults me I keep quiet. Because if they see you’re quiet, it’s like you’re ignoring them. If they see you answer back, they keep it up, sending more notes and insulting you. Well, at first I felt kind of bad because I was really shy. They started to say that to me and I kept quiet, at
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