One disturbing trend about immigration issue.

[Jitter65]

We are focused on Muslims and Mexican thanks to Trump. But there is a really sad situation that I have noticed here in the DC metro area (MD,VA,DC nexus). A lot of the intolerant talk about Muslims, Mexicans is from relatively new EU immigrants themselves (especially in my neighborhood Corner Bakery). Russian, French mostly. I speak a little French and familiar with basic Russian. While they use mostly broken English to express their disgust and I can pick up on some of their native tongue lashings.

I am beginning to see a infiltration of fascist talk and attitudes at the local YMCA (a great gathering place for our immigrant population). As an example, early in the morning I swim at the Y. There is a group of early swimmers..mostly French, Russian and Croat (I know because they say so--most here within the last 5 years and my guess is mostly diplomats). All is well until a few African Americans or come into the pool. They all make snide remarks and vacate the pool and head to the hot tub. There are two Hispanic swimming instructors who hold classes for children in one of the pools. They all have avoided signing up their tots with them and have made one huge tot class for one of the white male instructors. When his class reached maximum they opted for later time classes.

I don't know, maybe I am being over sensitive but it leaves me feeling disturbed. I sure hope that the fascists-learners from abroad are not making our communities less tolerant. The area i live in has for the past 40 years has been very progressive and socially and economically diverse. I don't like the changes I am seeing.

[Surya Gayatri]

1. Anecdotal, but definitely disquieting report on the rise of neo-fascism.

Sounds like these new arrivals would fit right in out in the red heartland. Curse their racism and bigotry.

[Her Sister]

4. ???

[Her Sister]

3. Interesting!

Racism seems to be a human hobby or something!

I lived overseas and I have seen it in other countries too. I lived in the Caribbean, Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.
It is hard also to be an immigrant and be with people and cultures you don't understand and have never experienced before. Even the humor can be alien! I myself had to stop and know that my understanding had limitations. It was hard at times to know that I didn't even know that I did not know! lol! You can act like an asshole without any idea you're doing so!

Funny thing is returning back to your mother land. You are again a foreigner. Humans don't realize how they change each other.


Well, am like going on and on...

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Majority of D.C. hate crimes target gay, trans residents

"Out of a total of 70 hate crime incidents reported in D.C. in 2014, 29 (41 percent) were motivated by the victim’s sexual orientation and 15 (21 percent) were motivated by the victim’s gender identity, according to an FBI hate crime statistics report released this week.

The report shows that 13 (19 percent) of the 70 D.C. hate crime incidents in 2014 were motivated by the victim’s race, and 8 (11 percent) were based on the victim’s religion.

Four reported D.C. hate crime incidents in 2014 were based on the victim’s ethnicity and one reported incident was based on the victim’s disability, the FBI report shows, with each amounting to less than 1 percent of the total hate crime incidents in the District that year.

The FBI’s annual hate crimes report has found that LGBT-related hate crimes in D.C. have been the highest among the different categories of reported hate crimes in the city each year for at least the past 10 years."
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/11/19/majority-of-d-c-hate-crimes-target-gay-trans-residents/

Of course the OP speaks of muttered words overheard while the FBI is speaking of actual crimes against persons.

So if dozens of persons have been subjected to hate crimes in your area every year and you never noticed until now what does that say exactly?