Have you ever felt discriminated?

I remember being discrimated against when I was looking for an apartment once. The landlord was very friendly until he noticed my son in the car, who is of mixed ethnicity. All of a sudden he had no applications available, although I saw the applications sitting behind him on the counter. I reported it to Fair Housing, but somehow he was able to cover his rear end and they told me I didn't have case. Go figure.

Yup. I was discrimnated against by the US Army. I was 17 years old and although I was not seriously considering the miltary they discrimnated against me because of my body mass. I had attended a school seminar on careers in the miltary and the recruiter called me at home to talke about me joining up. He only asked me two questions; How tall are you? I answered 5'11" and How must do you weigh? 270lbs. He then thanked me and hung up. That kind of burned me on the military ever since. Yeah, I'm a big guy, but you don't have to be rude about it.

I have been discriminated against many times but the time that I remember the most was when I went to work for the city that I worked for , (for over 30 years). When I first went to work there the men that I worked with had friends that were waiting for the job that i got (I was not even born in the state and I am of Native American heritage. It took almost 10 years to feel that I belonged working for the city. I could not not allow the people there to run me out of that job and I did not allow them to get to me.

I felt bad once while hunting jobs after graduating from college. I came from a reputable catholic school, I'm proud of my alma mater, on my opinion it is one of the best but since it is not located in the capital city of the country, it is less known also because our basketball team is not a member of UAAP (its a basketball league televise in national TV). When I started reading adds in the newspaper, some companies prefer a particular university and discourage applicantes so submit CVs if not a graduate of the said school (actually the term they use "graduate not from these schools need not apply" or something like "graduates from blah blah univiersities will be given priority"). How sad it that. I mean, after reading the job qualifications (knowing that I'm viable for the job) I'm still not qualified just because I did not graduate from the school they prefer (sigh).

i seen this happen to my philippine wife at a local philippine festival. my wife told me to buy some chicken and rice and i asked why she don't do it? she told me because they just ignored her when she went to the counter..i went to the counter and was waited on right off by a pinoy and she when i spoke a little tagalog shew was very friendly..this was a charity functin and the volunteers were nurses (miss america was there too as she was from our hometown and also a nurse"_) but i will never forget this..this happened in 1988 but now my wife has been here for over 22 years and is more assertive and will not tolerate this here in the US or the Philippines as it happens everywhere it seems

I feel like that often now. I'm trying to get a part time job or ones through a temp service and everywhere I go the people are younger than me. I'm 53, not that old but I don't dye my hair so I look my age. I don't get jobs. I'm also overweight, not obese but I could happily lose 25 pounds. I don't know if it's discrimination but when I do business with the places where the temp services have sent me to interview, the ones they hired are all in their 20's.

i also sometimes feel i am discriminated. it is mainly at workplace i think. may be i am discriminated as i do not show off like most others. May be they think i am different from others. most of the time i also feel very bad about it.

Oh I just felt so discriminated just recently. There is this spa and health center in Cebu wherein i am a lifetime member. About a few weeks ago, i decided to avail of their treatment package and i had the whole thing set on an appointment for saturday afternoon. Since its saturday and all i had to do just lie there and be pampered, i didn't bother to dress up but went there wearing my old but still good clothing. When i asked the receptionist for my appointment, she all but ignored me and seems not to hear or notice that i am talking to her. She didn't even bother checking the appointment books or any record and just told me that no doctor is available when i had arranged for a doctor to see me first before i go to any treatments. She didnt bother to check anything and what irked me was that she gave me a once over. Grrr! then she told me that she would reschedule me for monday without even asking if its okey with. So i told her nevermind and i left and went to another spa. The frontliner discriminated me because of how i dressed that day. Now somebody from their spa keeps on calling me inviting me to try out their treatments for free if i would just enrol for their package treatments. I told them that it would no longer happen because i am already happy with my current treatments and i don't like the way they handle clients anyway.

Hi dolce_vita78! Oh, I have experienced several discriminations before and just like you, I shrugged it off and other times, when I can't really take it, I do rant about it and there is this one time, that I did cry. It hurts and it makes you mad but at the end of the day, I try to reflect on the situation and just pray about it. Because I could not really changed other people's attitude, i just can change myself and so I pray for a stronger and better me. Take care and have a nice day! :)

yes, I think we all have at one point or another. for me it has been my quietness, my blondness, when I was younger and looked very much younger than i was, i often got treated as a child by people younger than me. Sadly, there are too many that are quick to judge a person without really knowing anything about them.

omg just the other day i went to salvation army for help.the lady was black and it seemed she was discrimating me...she was taking other people before me on purpose because i wouldnt stay seated. i was nervous and went to ask her how much longer it would take.she went off on me...saying first come first serve.well from that point on she picked on me.i went to go to the bathroom she said loudly where are you going..i said to the bathroom.then everyone that came in after me got out of there in 10 minutes it took me 45 minutes..she was laughting and joking with all the other people coming in but me oh noooooo.she didnt like me at all.she had all the power over me.i just had to sit there and wait on her time.i walked out of that office in tears.

yeah even i've felt the same... its horrible once u understand tht u r actually being in tht state.. i was discriminated among so calld "frends".. later i understiood why was it done to me... i tryd to work on it.. and i';ve suceeded it thou...

i have never felt discriminated in my life may be i am still young and still have to face a large part of life maybe ill just come across every kind of experience life has to offer

Yeah sometimes. Well I always show to those people that what they are thinking is wrong. We should never show defeat to the people who discriminate us. Thanks!

i believe nobody is excempted from discrimination or prejudice. it's just a part of life. people see other people and they see something what the other person's weaknesses are. and they begin to criticize til one thing leads to another. it's really up to the person whether he/she would let that get into his/her nerves. sometimes it's best to just let it pass -- but there are times, when it deeply wounds -- then we have to stand up for ourselves.