Maverick wrote:After seeing a lot of talk about race on here, I started thinking about this. I'm a short white guy. Oftentimes, I've been envious of tall guys even if they are of another race. For instance, overall, I would rather be a 6'0 Asian guy than a 5'6 white guy (that's not to say I don't like myself because I do.....but I wouldn't mind this trade-off lol).
I have a couple reasons for this:
1) In the US, blatant racism has become very taboo. While I do see it when people are drunk, I never see it in day-to-day life. Blatant heightism against men seems to actually be encouraged. Literally every day, I see a new post on Facebook either from a girl (saying something like "I hate short guys") or from a guy talking about how much it would suck to be short. I see people making fun of other people's height at work (never happened to me....that I know of, anyway). There are TV shows that make fun of short guys.
2) If you're black, Asian, or whatever, you could go to other parts of the world and be seen in a positive light (at times in a more positive light than white people). From my understanding, short guys are looked down upon (no pun intended lol) in all societies and it's basically a trait that is a universal negative.
I do agree that non-whites might have it tougher than short guys in the US (and I place a STRONG emphasis on "might" because I believe that we have similar difficulties).
Thoughts?
Historically up until the present time, does being short and white....
Get you hung from a tree?
Get you dragged to your death from the back of a pickup truck?
Get you longer prison sentences compared to other offenders?
Get you harassed, abused (Abner Louima), murdered by police at a disproportionate rate GLOBALLY?
Get you denied access to clubs, bars and restaurants GLOBALLY?
Get you denied housing because you "bring down the value of the neighborhood"?
Get you denied loans?
Get you denied employment because you do not have "good" appearance"?
Be constantly referred to as a minority even though that is a LIE.
Get you murdered for wearing a hood at night?
Have the person that murdered you get off simply because the life of a short white person holds little value GLOBALLY?