Posted by Minnie-Haha on May 18, 2005, at 15:17:05
In reply to Last couple of days at work, posted by partlycloudy on May 18, 2005, at 7:28:29
My husband grew up in the rural South and part of the reason he moved West was to get away from that. I grew up in Wisconsin and the group that a lot of people in my community disparaged were the local Native Americans. (That still goes on, plus there's a large group of Hmong up there now, and they're a target, too.) We left Wisconsin when I was 10 and the group that was discriminated against here (Arizona) were the Latinos -- still are though not as bad. I guess every community has a group that it has to put down. Everyone is jockeying for a better position on the socioeconomic ladder. Ugh.
I'm glad you're leaving an environment that is disagreeable to you. And I'm with you completely on that having-to-act-happy thing when you're not feeling anything at all like happy!
Bless you, darling. Enjoy a breather.
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