Monday, 2 July 2012

New experience

Discrimination

Okay white male in a white country, I have felt discrimination.  I might be over reacting.  I went into a East Indian Grocery Store to purchase samosas I waited in line and my turn I asked for a very large number of samosas and there was more than enough.  I needed comfort food in Boonieland from the Big Smoke.   There was a line behind me and the cashier asked me to wait while she served the others.  I was fine with that, so I waited.  

The next five people took ten minutes to process.  The fourth took ten samosas and there was lots left over.  The fifth took forty samosas, the same number I wanted and there was none left over. She then told me that there would be none available for a few hours.  I felt cheated.  I was the only white person and all the Indian people got served.  

But I felt discriminated upon, and that was a valuable lesson, because as a white male in a white country, when was I going to ever get that feeling?

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