RESPONSE TO MY INTERVIEW WITH AN INDIAN PERSON
I set up an interview with an Indian person (female) to research her responses to various questions on racial discrimination. I found her responses very shocking, sometimes I feel annoyed. In question 1 I asked “Have you ever been discriminated against in the street or in school?” she answered yes. I expected this as there are many accounts of racial attacks in my community as I expected not to have been discriminated against. Unfortunately it was true.
In question 2 when I asked “were you ever discriminated against when you started school?” she said she didn’t know. In schools many people think discrimination is not expected but I have in the past heard many negative comments being thrown at people from an ethnic minority group whilst walking between classes and at lunch. I don’t think this question affected the young Indian girl too much as she cannot really remember that far back, although she is still attending school and was comfortable enough in my presence to tell me that she is at the moment being racially attacked at school although I didn’t ask her a question in relation to the present time.
