Gosh, the comments I heard while living in West Denver were so atrocious... Once while grocery shopping I let my daughter (12 at the time) go and browse through the Magazines while I shopped in that section of the store. She came and found me about 5-10 minutes later — crying — saying that some boys were bothering her saying things like, “We hate white people”, and “Why are you in OUR neighborhood”, etc... The racism displayed by a large number of people I interacted with while living and working in that neighborhood was astounding. I had never experienced that type of racism before in my life (not even from the other minorities I’ve interacted with). The only other time I experienced racism was in college when I worked on an English project with an African-American woman whom I got along with famously. We were walking down the hall one day and met up with a group of her friends. She introduced me to them and they just pretended like I wasn’t there, not even a hi, or hello or acknowledgement that she had introduced me. She apologized profusely for their action (in front of them), and I took leave of the situation — that was a lot easier to deal with than the outright hostility displayed in Denver...
My own sister is Half-Mexican (we’re adopted), so this is not a matter of bigotry for me — it’s a shame I have to qualify myself like this, but our politicians seem to believe anyone who points out some of the cultural problems are prejudiced against all Latinos/Hispanics/Mexicans, etc...
Its cultural as one poster pointed out. I find it very disturbing.
It’s nothing to do with being spanish. I have known Indian guys (India) to be very disrespectful towards women when I was in lab with them during college. There was a post where some young guy from somewhere in Mexico admitted to sleeping with a 12 year old-he was being interviewed and said you must understand we think we can sleep with a woman if they determine by her dress or whatver that she wants it. He said this is how it is in my culture. This kid is a future rapist, and he is in this country sleeping with a 12 year old.