General public has always had a very abstract idea of “Racism.” It still has the same image as early 60s: calling an African-American with the “N” word, or generally abusing any ethnicity. But Racism has become such a bigger issue today, as the notion of Racism has become indecent. Therefore it is more veiled now.
What matters even more is that “Racism’ can be seen in many organizations, governments and systems, and yet nobody questions them, because it never seems like it. For instance the only reason which I have to pay 8,000$ tuition fee more than my Canadian classmate is because I am not Canadian. It is not because he has higher grades or anything else. It is just because of my nationality. One may reason that you haven’t paid tax all those years in Canada, but this is an absurd justification because it still does not solve the problem, it rather erases it.
The fact that a whole nation or followers of a specific religion should be humiliated just because of few terrorist is another example. A terrorist can be from any country ( for example in 9/11 while the Americans where busy interviewing and investigating Iranian applicants, a UAE citizen which are the most trusted in the middle east carried away the mission.)
All that being said, the only ironic reason now that I can not travel back to my country Iran is that I am actually Iranian. Because I am Iranian it has now taken more than a month to get the Canadian visa, something that usually takes less than a day for other nationalities, Even though I have been living in Canada for almost two years.
At the end this is me in Abu Dhabi trying to kill some time, waiting to hear that my application is delayed another two weeks! 
August 04, 2006
Justified Racism
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It's almost a circle of catch-22
i think the most ironic is that Iranians who have been in situations like this for years, are one of the most racist nations I have ever known. just look at how we treated Afghanies. compared to that, Americans treat me like a king...or just the way we look at other nations including Turks, Indians, Arabs...we gotta learn someday...
first of all thanks for leaving me a comment!
I don't agree with you. ofcourse there are some cases of racism toward the foreign minorities in Iran but in general I believe Iranian are not racist specially toward afghans, and the reason why they are not treated well is that they usually work in an uneducated atmosphere like construction sites. otherwise other classes of the society accepts them.
Yet even if we suppose that generally iranians are racist, that doesn't justify the western racism toward some of iranians. I mean why should a MIT professer be abused in the airport? just because an uneducated "Memar" has not treated n afghan well!
I think generally Iranians have racist views. In the US, I have seen a large number of Iranins being hostile to Arabs, Turks, Indians and even Chinese because they think they are better. In Iran, there were a lot of educated Afghanies who couldnt get a decent job for their education becuase they were Afghani. Even the workers who worked a lot better in construction industry never enjoyed the minimum rights of an Iranian worker who was not half good in their job. Its also the issue of economy but even Iranian elire ignored them. In Iran, Afghani was almost a curse.
And no, no racism is justified even if we are racist ourselves. but someone should start to criticize us, as a nation as individuals wherever in the world we live. We need to correct ourselves.
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