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Racism happens to everyone... even white people but no one cares about their experiences.

Racism exists with other races as well that hire their own. White is not the dominant culture or ethnicity in some large cities in Canada and those people are hiring their own and not blacks. Every race discriminates against blacks as sad as it may sound. It’s not just blacks. Some bank branches , offices and stores have all south Asian people working there

White people forget they came on a ship

Did they test if white people get discriminated against by people who are black or asian as well in canada? Or just if white people discriminate?

If a store owner can see that most of the shoplifters are black or brown. That store owner are most likely to suspect black and brown people.\n\nIf a black man/woman is being harrased by mostly white people, he/she will gradually suspect that most or all white people are racists.\n\n That trend is really common throughout the world.\n\nIt's just that simple. Try to have an open mind and don't judge people because of their skin color. Judge them because of their behavior.

I get followed in stores and I’m white and at Best Buy people always ask you if you need help over and over again

I'm a white guy who lived in another country that wasn't a white majority country. There is discrimination in western countries, but there are ways to deal with it. The discrimination I had to deal with every day was much more than this, but nobody wants to know about that. The way I lived for those several years was to realize that I was different and I just had to maximize dealing with good people and when I knew that I would have to deal with something like having to get an apartment, I took that countries national with me knowing I would get a better deal. I was grabbed by officers at night and threatened. basically whatever is faced here, I had on a regular basis. At first, it pissed me off, but later, I came up with a way to maximize my life to get the best treatment I could. I didn't think I would be coming back to America, but eventually, I came back for more schooling and ended up staying.

Quit watching it not even minute and you can already see him race-baiting. The lady told the white man that the price was not set but it would be roughly around 900. The other guy came and and she gave a set price of 930 and tried to insinuate that it was cuz our racism. She said it was around nine hundred for the white guy didn't put a set price. Secondly white people get followed around in stores just as much as blacks. does it matter what color you are hang out in Walmart too long and see how many people start following lol.

Racism is a mental illness that white people suffer from\n\nAlbert Einstein

Why do white countries feel the need in bringing over every 3rd world country's people ? You don't see this in China or Asia in general, Africa all the countries there and lets not forget India. So why do we feel like we can't have our own countries, everyone else has theirs

Try being a white Male and live on the South East side of Atlanta. It's open season on white people. This show is intentionally biased and promoted racism.

More BS let's blame the whites again. Another thing if anybody was standing in a shop for 20 minutes not buying anything, you are going to have staff come up and ask to help that's there job, you people are sick in the head to believe this nonsense.

In the meantime, my people in Africa will literally twist themselves into pretzels to make even the lowliest white man feel like a long lost cousin who just returned home. ?

Took the test and apparently I slightly like African American more than white people and I absolutely hate Asian people. ?

There's so much evidence of racism existing but certain whites will never stop trying to either downplay it, somehow justify it or outright deny it. As long as there are people like that, racism will never cease to exist. Must be great to be the ones on the defense team, opposed to being the ones on the receiving end of it.

I'm not saying there isn't discrimination, but I think it's across the board. Had a black person been handling the job of the real estate agent or an Asain person, do you think the outcome would have been different? Why is the white person always targeted as the oppressor? There are plenty of people in decision-making positions of other races who determine outcomes. How about leveling the field?

I worked at my local Walmart throughout high school and it was white people who were the most likely to shoplift.

And people act like white privileged isn’t a thing

It isn't one way. There are landlords and companies that belong to minorities that don't employ people of a different colour to them, how about reporting on that.\n\n\n\nAs a white person, I have been followed about in a shop, so don't think it is due to racism.

so the white people say there is no racism lmao. that's like a millionaire saying there's no such thing as poverty

Racism goes both ways I’ve been treated very bad because of my pale skin hair and eyes I’ve been called albino by people of colour and I’ve never and would never do that to them growing up in the uk in an area with a high Muslim community being beaten up at school ,there where places white girls just didn’t go I hated the way I looked I started to dye my hair black I wore baggy clothes and lots of layers but I couldn’t change my eyes I would alway walk with my head down so I know what it’s like to be treated differently because of colour

I wonder Why white people feel uncomfortable with other races.

Here in Vancouver it's been very cold the past little while and I can't tell you how many times I've been asked to empty my bag and pockets. I wear big jackets and a hat because it's DAMN COLD OUT. Everytime I walk into any store. (Grocery, retail, furniture..) they always stare me down and follow me. I'm white, female, and maybe I look sketchy to them but I don't care. I can't imagine how these people treat indigenous or black people in their stores. It's ridiculous.

This is BS! Send nice dressed black guy to look for apartment and white guy just plain looking I bet black guy will be offered apartment first! I dated black girl and black guys always gave me weird look but when they date white girls it is ok! There's racism on all sides!! I respects all races and good people!!

I took that text. its BS, how is it accurate when they use words like good for white person and magnificent for black people. of cores it will take a sec longer to answer the black question.

My friend's dad is From India, and the first thing he looks at when renting his apartments is RACE. \nMy friend laughs, and openly tells me his dad won't rent to black people,... \nBut wait a minute, I thought only whites were racists...

I lost all hope until them white folks with the dreads stepped in I love them stand together or fall alone & the other people was ready to fight lol

All white people why is that?

Journalist: “Do you feel offended?”\n\nLeland: “No, I feel jealous”\n\nMe:”? bullsh!t that people are treated like this!”\n\nMy heart:?\n\nMy soul:?\n\nAlso me: WHITE AF & oblivious 99% of the time, unless I feel pain via other people’s struggles, by watching things like this.

Psychology student here. In the interest of accurate information, I would like to point out some flaws I find with some of the studies in this documentary and question the conclusions reached. I understand that CBC Marketplace are not personality psychologists and therefore cannot be expected to produce the same quality of work as a scientist. However, I think it is worthwhile to think critically about the information in the media that we consume. I am also open to anyone who wants to engage in debating the contents of this documentary.\n\n\nThe following are some notes I took while watching the documentary outlining the individual hypotheses of the studies I think are flawed and descriptions of their respective accompanying errors. \n\n\nThere are three possible research questions, and thereby dependent variables, being answered by the apartment hunting studies.\n1. If there is no discrimination between the white man and the first-nations man, then they should get equal treatment, including quotes and availability, when apartment hunting. \na. Could the gender of the landlord be a confounding variable (perhaps men are more discriminatory than women)? \n \n2. If there is no discrimination between the white man and the first-nations man between Toronto, Montreal, Regina, and Victoria, then they should get equal treatment, including quotes and availability, when apartment hunting. \na. Could total apartments visited be a confounding variable? (4 in Toronto, 3 in Montreal, Regina, and Victoria) \nb. Could the gender of the landlord be a confounding variable (perhaps men are more discriminatory than women)? \nc. They only showed the black man apartment hunting in some of the trials. I am considering him out of the study for consistency purposes. The first-nations man is the only one who got unfair treatment in the footage of apartment hunting. \n \n3. Possible hypothesis: If male landlords/agents are more discriminatory than female landlords/agents, then the white man and the first-nations man will get different treatment at different Canadian apartments in equally diverse cities. \na. Don’t know all the information about the genders of the landlords/agents, not all the footage is shown, but the ones where they get ripped off are male. The others shown are female. The remaining interactions are not shown.\n\n\nThere are also some factors that may have influenced the racial bias survey and, in my estimation, rendered it scientifically unreliable.\n\n\n1. The bias survey and accompanying tests at the CBC attributed the differences between the studies to unconscious racism. What if it was just due to familiarity with certain racial groups over others? \na. The black participants had no bias between European-American and African Americans, supposedly indicating no racism, while the white and first-nations participants did, supposedly indicating racism. Is it possible that another interpretation of this result is that bias is a function of familiarity: that we are comfortable with the majority demographic in the geographical location we live in, as well as our own kind. Therefore, the black guys are less biased against black people due to being both black and living in a white majority demographic? \nb. The participants took the survey knowing the objectives of the researchers was to study racial discrimination. They might have influenced the answers they gave \nc. Whether the participants agreed with identity politics or not was a confounding factor that was not controlled . You can only be racially unbiased biased if you think that racial identity is a means of accurately viewing the world. People who do not believe in the existence of identity politics may answer the questions quite differently, which could be a different reason for the results.\nd. I took the study myself. The words that participants were required to match were a mix of adjectives and nouns. It is known within psychology that nouns have higher levels of imagery. This was not properly controlled and therefore is another confounding variable. \n \nAll the other studies looked fine to me. I welcome any discussion on my observations.

In surrey BC Sikh people are most respected and get first dibs on jobs etc... White People are the minority and are treated like ghosts

It's saddens my soul that racism was created and exists in the world. We are all humans that's it human.\nIt's 2020 stand up for anti racism . Stand up to it. When you hear it, see it witness it, in any form, anywhere.\n. White privledge exists and can leave us blind so Open your eyes people. Stand up. Wake up.

I'm from Vancouver and I've been racially discriminated by Chinese and Indian people and I'm white. I've been denied entry into places and denied property rental by these foreign dirt bags. I was born here they were not

who's really to blame? the white people who built up civilization, or the people being discriminated against who kinda earned bad reputations?

White people have it bad to they can't find anyone to help them at the store there to busy asking blacks if theyneed help.

Do we take the white guy to minority areas & see what happens? We already know that people get treated/ profiled against in Canada/America/ Mexico

People need to stop judging by skin colour. Working security at hospitals for the last few years i can confirm one thing. Most of the people who cause us problems are white males.

I hope one day real Canadian (native Indians) deport white peoples back to Europe.

How about taking white people to foreign countries? \nRacism everywhere I travel a lot\nIn a lot of countries they make their own people put bags and purses at a bag check. \nWe are just looking for racism!

This is a great video it's hard being a person of colour in even today's world. There is a lot of passive aggressive racism in the form of discrimination on a big scale. The thing about race is you can't really talk to white people about racism because they don't really experience it. I would like to see a social experiment to where white people go into predominantly minority areas and see how they get treated.

This goes to show the Canadian government's racist policies no white people only brown people

This is not racism. Where we go we make problems we do crime and we want only money easy money there is lot of racism in third world countries for white people.

I am Living in Ottawa I am white, I lived here my whole life and now I am a minority I deal with different races all the time and I do feel that I am being pushed out of my country different ethnicities treat me with disrespect I was growing up with Canadian culture of respecting everyone around you but I fine with all these different cultures coming in I’m losing my Canadian identity and it is a lot for me to hold strong onto the values as of what the Canadian is and I’m a fourth generation Canadian I see what’s happening to our veterans I visit my grandfather every other week and I see all the different nationalities that are PSW‘s and nurses And I really mean no offence but we have a different level of respect we have a different way of talking and these different nationalities coming in they all click together and some of them they treat the men who built this country with such disrespect please listen to meand I’m really not Trying racially profile this is been happening for the last 15 years and I’m not being silent about it Canada is freedom of speech Canada is being strong enough to speak up I mean this from the bottom of my heart if you’re coming into my country that my grand parents built for me and my children can you please give my children the opportunity that you were now taking from them and I see how they treat our veterans I see how difficult it is for seniors that didn’t have a placement in our homeless I see that all of our government funding is now going to people that are now immigrating into Canada and they’re being able to start up small businesses have four bedroom townhomes in their children to schools and drive them and fancy SUVs can you look around us and see somebody sold Canada

These videos are created by weak people because they're weak and the problem here is this happens to everybody every single f****** store I go into and I'm white as Casper and one of the least intimidating people you will ever meet in your life and yet I am followed all the f****** time so don't make this about race you're just a f****** piece of s***

People just being honest in protest to the foreign invasion of criminals, non conformists, race baiters, free loaders, anti white racists all defended by the radical liberal press.

White people get discriminated against aswell it just depends where you are in the city

Why is it called racism? Blacks are black. White people are white. Even if you swooped them around for a generation or so,,, the blacks will still be black and behave black,,, and the whites would still be white. How long has this been going on for??? Blacks are black. And whites are white. I really don't understand the drama. For gods sake,,, you're black, you're white,,,, go live, just get on with it. This is the most nonsensical world wide debate ever. What do you want??? All of us to be black? All of us to be white? Swop places? Just accept this ( from the beginning of time) difference. Know who you are. Know where you belong. Don't trespass. You'll be content and happy.

i am white well dressed 6'3 and people say good looking and experienced what the native woman has ans all kinds o things throughout my life, can you image if I tried to say its racism. Not saying it could be or not but the race card is wayyy over played

Want to Eliminate Racism ? Educate Settlers/ White Canadians & Immigrants. Canadians have no idea about Residential schools, Smallpox Epidemic, Hudson Bay Traders Violations against Aboriginal peoples.

Well what I’ve learned of this video. Is that white people could shop lift without being detected.?White privileged goes a long way....?