My mom's racist but she doesn't think she is.?

Question

My mother's a little racist but she doesn't think she is. Whenever I say "you're being racist." She always gets defensive and says "I'm not." When we're in the car and the car next to her doesbt give way or something that's the rules of driving, she'.l go, it must be an Asian. It's not always Asians! We're australian with english/irish decent. This gets me mad because she never thinks if it wasn't. Sometimes it's her who doesn't give way and when I tell her she makes up some sort of a rule. When some people were held hostage in Sydney, she started saying rude stuff about Muslims, it's not them! Just that one man, she doesn't realise how racist she's being and I don't know how to stop her. She's just plain rude. She is a little bossy and believes everything should go her way but it's no exception to the rule of manners, decency and being multicultural and nice. Please help me.

Answer 1

Yes, you're mother is being racist - But I wouldn't use the word "racist." Instead, I'd say judgmental as that's a better way to describe her behavior and attitude towards other people. She's judging almost every situation, event and character out there. Yes, some may say "everyone is entitled to their own opinion," but sometimes THOSE opinions are meant to be kept inside instead of spoken allowed. In your Mom's case, she's being rude especially saying those judgmental remarks/sayings in front of her children. She doesn't realize that what she says could potentially rub off on you (not saying you would ever let your mother influence your life; I don't know you). Mother's are like role models and what they do or say can have a huge impact on their children in the long-term. Basically, to answer your question, yes your mother is being rude. And you should at least talk to her and explain how she's being rude/JUDGMENTAL.

Answer 2

Your mother has a right to be racist in her own people's nation. Minorities in Australia who are non-white commit a disproportional amount of crime even though they are so small population wise. They bring crime and drugs to neighborhoods and no wonder so many Australians are racist as a result. Racism is healthy and natural, it is human nature. Scientist found that babies are racist themselves and is a evolutionairy trait: http://time.com/67092/baby-racists-survival-strategy/



A Nobel Prizing Winning Scientist, James Watson, who was the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA has said that not all races are equal(that some are more intelligent than others), and to think otherwise is a delusion. He said to think all races evolved the same, despite being in different environments is an illusion: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/fury-at-dna-pioneers-theory-africans-are-less-intelligent-than-westerners-394898.html



You are brainwashed, you are indoctrinated in school because the people with your kind of beliefs have infiltrated your educational system. Your ideas are wrong, and which is why 3 world leaders condemned multiculturalism as a failure, which were David Cameron, Prime Minister of the UK, Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, and Nicolas Sarkozy, the recent former president of France.



To find the links of these world leaders saying such a thing look below. Your mother isn't has brainwashed and indoctrinated as you because she grew up in a time when most of the educational system wasn't taken over by tyrants who inject their political beliefs and ideology into school textbooks.



Your people are your family. They look like you because you share the same flesh and blood. Your mother loves you because you share the same flesh and blood as her, and look similar to her. That is what a family is, and why they love each other because they share a strong connection and see themselves in each other. You share distant fathers and mothers with your own people, even if it was a 1000 years ago you still share the same ancestors who look like you. You are being racist and xenophobic to make a distinction between your mother or father and some strangers, family is just a social contract right according to your beliefs?

Answer 3

You can't stop her from being the way that she is. I'm sure most of it simply comes from some degree of ignorance, and either she's willing to learn or she's not. Trying to teach her things she doesn't want to learn will cause more harm than good. Just love her anyway because she's your mom.

Answer 4

It seems you are mistaken about the meaning of the word "racist".

A racist is someone who thinks at least one race is inherently (and thus genetically) inferior to another.

You might want to check an online dictionary for the meaning of words like "prejudice" and "bigot" to expand your vocabulary.