[Serious] Racists of Reddit, what caused you to be racist?

I really don't know if I'm considered racist or not. I feel like I just hate inconsiderate people, and it seems like in certain places, inconsiderate people seem to be mainly non-white.

To explain, I'm Irish. I grew up in a small town in Ireland that was anywhere between 99.5% and 100% white. I hadn't seen a black person or an Asian in my life before I visited London as an adolescent. I had no opinions in any direction about other races because I never dealt with them.

Now since I moved to America, I do. And I've come to get annoyed and honestly quite short with a lot of them. For a start I moved to a diverse neighbourhood, and it was hell. My black neighbours were disruptive as hell. It didn't matter if it was 4 AM, they were going to blast their music and honk their horns all they wanted. I remember one dude who lived across from me literally just sitting on his balcony at like midnight on a weekday just blasting music from his stereo system. My fucking windows were rattling. And it really didn't seem like just some of them. It was most of them. I also got twice in my first year. Not even good, decent robberies where I have the opportunity to fight, but like having my phone snatched out of my hands on the train and my wallet lifted while I tried to break up a fight. Both times black dudes.

And the Asians. Worse. At least a lot of black people are cool, so it tempers my feelings. It ain't like that with Asians. Not all of them, but the recent immigrants. An Asian raised in America or Canada or whatever is fine. I don't have any feelings about them on a general level. But elderly Asians or just off the boat Asians? Fuck them. I'm an immigrant, I don't hate immigrants. But I made an effort to figure out etiquette in America when I moved here. They don't. They think everywhere is where they came from. I don't know how many times I've been shoved out of the way by an old Chinese woman because she wanted to be first on the train. How many times I've stood there waiting for a group of Asians to stop standing in a fucking doorway chatting. The Asian people who lived around me would live their dogs out on the lawn from 6 am to 10 pm, barking to come in all the while, and get mad at me for asking them to do something. With the notable exception of the Japanese, they seem to have no respect for anything. They just don't give a damn. At my company, getting an Asian client is the fucking kiss of the death because you absolutely know that they're going to be disorganized at best, shady at worst. It's going to be an all day ordeal that would normally take 15 minutes. They seem to actively try to make things hard for people. I honestly have reached the point where as soon as I hear that accent come across the line at work I shut down. I don't intend to work with that person or be flexible with them where I would with other people, which makes me feel like a dick. But that's how it is. And their own goddamn racism as well. I remember I was living with an American of Filipino descent at my first flat. Got on with him great. Our Filipino born neighbours once gave him a ton of food for some reason, with the specific specification that it was only for him and not the white man he lived with. That's just an example. There's been several.

tl;dr At some point I came to dislike certain groups of people because they don't seem to give a shit about other people. It just seems like if I'm being woken up in the middle of the night or dealing with an inconsiderate prick, the person in question isn't white most of the time.

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