Ahem,
I won't tell you where I live (because I am a coward) but we have a large immigrant population hailing from Portugal or more specifically Madeira. When I was at school (20-30 years ago) we had several second gen. Portuguese lads and by and large they were normal kids from hard working families who got on well with everybody and as far as I am aware suffered no significant racism. We got on well and in fact I still bump into some of them periodically and stop and chat etc. However, since school and entering the world of the adult I have come to believe that pretty much all Portuguese men are lying, conniving, thieving sleazeballs who will happily slap their wives and kids around and knife you as soon as look at you and then throw the racism card on the deck whenever they are get caught. To back this up my missus who is quite possibly the most sickeningly liberal lawyer you are ever likely to meet has come to despise them also as she sees so many through her work.

What make this worse is that I really don't like the fact that I feel this way about a race of people. It makes me sad.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 1 Apr 2010, 18:31, Reply)