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I'm white, I've been followed in stores and profiled by police.

WHITE PRIVILEGE!!! DON'T BE SUCH HATERS CAUSE I'M NOT MELANATED

I'm half white (but look full white) and have only been followed once in my whole life (I was dressed in rags tbh). When I'm with my half brother who looks black, we are followed at every store. That being said, his demeanor is pretty suspicious. He puts his hood up, hands in pockets, and hunches over. He likes to look at nicer stuff like watches too. He's autistic but to any security guard he looks like a guy trying to shoplift. It's a shame.

Try being a white Male and live on the South East side of Atlanta. It's open season on white people. This show is intentionally biased and promoted racism.

I am a fully grown white man and I called white boy on a weekly basis. So I agree racism is wrong.

Never in my life I would ever ball down do any white man Dr beneath me and my culture

I wanna see what happens if they had white face on then make the great reveal.

More BS let's blame the whites again. Another thing if anybody was standing in a shop for 20 minutes not buying anything, you are going to have staff come up and ask to help that's there job, you people are sick in the head to believe this nonsense.

Im white and have been followed around stores. \nMost times it's when im in my work clothes.

Took the test and apparently I slightly like African American more than white people and I absolutely hate Asian people. ?

You should update this Marketplace, in 2020, now its the white male that is discriminated. Look it up everywhere on the internet

There's so much evidence of racism existing but certain whites will never stop trying to either downplay it, somehow justify it or outright deny it. As long as there are people like that, racism will never cease to exist. Must be great to be the ones on the defense team, opposed to being the ones on the receiving end of it.

Try to get help at Walmart when you’re a white person mean while they are following a brown person.

I'm not saying there isn't discrimination, but I think it's across the board. Had a black person been handling the job of the real estate agent or an Asain person, do you think the outcome would have been different? Why is the white person always targeted as the oppressor? There are plenty of people in decision-making positions of other races who determine outcomes. How about leveling the field?

I worked at my local Walmart throughout high school and it was white people who were the most likely to shoplift.

It isn't one way. There are landlords and companies that belong to minorities that don't employ people of a different colour to them, how about reporting on that.\n\n\n\nAs a white person, I have been followed about in a shop, so don't think it is due to racism.

Free country, I'm white and I've been followed around stores, getting sick of your race-baiting!

Im a white Europian Muslim and every time someone came up to me in the store i was asked for my phone number and if i have girlfriend .

White privilege

I white, I be followed

so the white people say there is no racism lmao. that's like a millionaire saying there's no such thing as poverty

Racism goes both ways I’ve been treated very bad because of my pale skin hair and eyes I’ve been called albino by people of colour and I’ve never and would never do that to them growing up in the uk in an area with a high Muslim community being beaten up at school ,there where places white girls just didn’t go I hated the way I looked I started to dye my hair black I wore baggy clothes and lots of layers but I couldn’t change my eyes I would alway walk with my head down so I know what it’s like to be treated differently because of colour

I wonder Why white people feel uncomfortable with other races.

Here in Vancouver it's been very cold the past little while and I can't tell you how many times I've been asked to empty my bag and pockets. I wear big jackets and a hat because it's DAMN COLD OUT. Everytime I walk into any store. (Grocery, retail, furniture..) they always stare me down and follow me. I'm white, female, and maybe I look sketchy to them but I don't care. I can't imagine how these people treat indigenous or black people in their stores. It's ridiculous.

I tried truly wonder why white folks moved away? It's like a great white flight???? and..... then bad things happen? Gtfo

Is this the reason why I have a hard time getting a job? I refuse to put my race down because I have been discriminated against. Can I use? He'll no I am white. This could be a hindered.

It happens here in America. I got on one front end manager and I called the store manager on old white women and pregnant and pregnant white women no one else.

White on white racism now I've seen everything ????

There is so many factors that play into this the fact that the white guy went into the building first and ask about apartments affects the next skies results because she was sort of offered the apartment first

Have you seen the left? Anti white progressives. Less whites and more POCs that is the progressive motto. No one can hire a person because they are qualified, they have to hire because of skin color or sexual orientation.

Oh and just because you read into things doesn't mean that was the Intent. I like how the white guy said he doesn't experience this much yet every ethnicity hates the whites so when is discrimination ok and acceptable and when is it equally not.

I guess these white guys forgot where they came from! UNGODLY FOOLS!

My friend's dad is From India, and the first thing he looks at when renting his apartments is RACE. \nMy friend laughs, and openly tells me his dad won't rent to black people,... \nBut wait a minute, I thought only whites were racists...

Another excellent episode. Marketplace, I would love to see an episode on discrimination based upon age. I have white hair, and I am 65 years old.

I lost all hope until them white folks with the dreads stepped in I love them stand together or fall alone & the other people was ready to fight lol

I wonder what racial profiling I would get (being white) if I stood in the middle of most middle eastern countries, wearing a 3 piece pin stripe suit and a hat...

All white people why is that?

Journalist: “Do you feel offended?”\n\nLeland: “No, I feel jealous”\n\nMe:”? bullsh!t that people are treated like this!”\n\nMy heart:?\n\nMy soul:?\n\nAlso me: WHITE AF & oblivious 99% of the time, unless I feel pain via other people’s struggles, by watching things like this.

Subtle racism is bad but there are places in the US where the White dude simply cannot go because of the color of his skin.

I don't know where I would stand withthe 2nd test because my maternal great grandmother is white & from portugal but my maternal great grandfather is hispanic & jamacian. There were so many negative things both sides have sad about one another

Psychology student here. In the interest of accurate information, I would like to point out some flaws I find with some of the studies in this documentary and question the conclusions reached. I understand that CBC Marketplace are not personality psychologists and therefore cannot be expected to produce the same quality of work as a scientist. However, I think it is worthwhile to think critically about the information in the media that we consume. I am also open to anyone who wants to engage in debating the contents of this documentary.\n\n\nThe following are some notes I took while watching the documentary outlining the individual hypotheses of the studies I think are flawed and descriptions of their respective accompanying errors. \n\n\nThere are three possible research questions, and thereby dependent variables, being answered by the apartment hunting studies.\n1. If there is no discrimination between the white man and the first-nations man, then they should get equal treatment, including quotes and availability, when apartment hunting. \na. Could the gender of the landlord be a confounding variable (perhaps men are more discriminatory than women)? \n \n2. If there is no discrimination between the white man and the first-nations man between Toronto, Montreal, Regina, and Victoria, then they should get equal treatment, including quotes and availability, when apartment hunting. \na. Could total apartments visited be a confounding variable? (4 in Toronto, 3 in Montreal, Regina, and Victoria) \nb. Could the gender of the landlord be a confounding variable (perhaps men are more discriminatory than women)? \nc. They only showed the black man apartment hunting in some of the trials. I am considering him out of the study for consistency purposes. The first-nations man is the only one who got unfair treatment in the footage of apartment hunting. \n \n3. Possible hypothesis: If male landlords/agents are more discriminatory than female landlords/agents, then the white man and the first-nations man will get different treatment at different Canadian apartments in equally diverse cities. \na. Don’t know all the information about the genders of the landlords/agents, not all the footage is shown, but the ones where they get ripped off are male. The others shown are female. The remaining interactions are not shown.\n\n\nThere are also some factors that may have influenced the racial bias survey and, in my estimation, rendered it scientifically unreliable.\n\n\n1. The bias survey and accompanying tests at the CBC attributed the differences between the studies to unconscious racism. What if it was just due to familiarity with certain racial groups over others? \na. The black participants had no bias between European-American and African Americans, supposedly indicating no racism, while the white and first-nations participants did, supposedly indicating racism. Is it possible that another interpretation of this result is that bias is a function of familiarity: that we are comfortable with the majority demographic in the geographical location we live in, as well as our own kind. Therefore, the black guys are less biased against black people due to being both black and living in a white majority demographic? \nb. The participants took the survey knowing the objectives of the researchers was to study racial discrimination. They might have influenced the answers they gave \nc. Whether the participants agreed with identity politics or not was a confounding factor that was not controlled . You can only be racially unbiased biased if you think that racial identity is a means of accurately viewing the world. People who do not believe in the existence of identity politics may answer the questions quite differently, which could be a different reason for the results.\nd. I took the study myself. The words that participants were required to match were a mix of adjectives and nouns. It is known within psychology that nouns have higher levels of imagery. This was not properly controlled and therefore is another confounding variable. \n \nAll the other studies looked fine to me. I welcome any discussion on my observations.

We moved from California to Louisiana. My brother's girlfriend constantly said my 3 year old daughter was always trying to act and sound white. She reads very well and that is her normal voice. I didn't even know how to respond to that comment.?

I am Latino, more or less capuccino skin (with extra milk), I can say that racial experiments here would be very interesting. I finnished university and have experience in my field. I've been looking for a job for a while, not much luck, I'm don't get called to interviews that much, I only get calls from agents that show me positions in company that I apply for but 90% of the time get rejected right away. \n\nI have white friends, one of them didn't study university. It hasn't been easy for him either, but he's pretty lazy, I know for a fact he didn't search much and got 7 interviews in 3 months while I hardly got called for 3 companies with the help of 5 agents. He got a job for which he needed training, I got rejected for that job and I do have experience in that field. I have to say it hurts. Funny thing, even he says it's suspicious because he couldn't answer many questions on the interview

I'm not suprise at all, in canada there is racism and prejudice , I have been of victime of that on several occasion here in canada , once I was denied a room and spent the night out because I had a french accent and yes I'm white.

In surrey BC Sikh people are most respected and get first dibs on jobs etc... White People are the minority and are treated like ghosts

who's really to blame? the white people who built up civilization, or the people being discriminated against who kinda earned bad reputations?

“You sound white”\n?\nWAT

I'm bullyed because I'm white so I used to try to scrape my skin off with a knife it's not normal and the schools don't help anything because they don't really care

Do we take the white guy to minority areas & see what happens? We already know that people get treated/ profiled against in Canada/America/ Mexico

People need to stop judging by skin colour. Working security at hospitals for the last few years i can confirm one thing. Most of the people who cause us problems are white males.