#generalising

all of your texts from her gon end up being “are you annoyed at me? are you sure? are you sure? are you sure? yeah but you seem distant. are you sure? are you sure?”

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The hardest thing about being a women is NOT figuring out what to wear. There are women who are scared about being beaten again by their abusive partner. There are women who aren’t allowed to be educated due to lack of rights. There are women who are scared to leave their house in feared being followed again. There are women who are homeless and are selling their body just to acquire money to buy food. The last thing on all these women’s mind is probably what they’re going to wear. Don’t generalise billions of women. 🙄

To start off, I'm a 21 year old girl from Norway and today, for the first time in my life, I felt hatred, true hatred, directed at not myself exactly, but I became the victim of it because of the country I was born in. A man came up to me on the street in Tokyo wondering if I spoke english and if I could direct him to the Tokyo Skytree. I couldn't as I didn't know which direction it was in myself and as we were both foreigners to the country he asked me where I was from. He seemed like a nice man for those first ten seconds, until I told him I was Norwegian. In that moment his entire person changed, I could see it happening and tried to get away, saying I had somewhere to be. He wouldn't let me and stepped in front of me, getting all up in my face and started interrogating me on my opinion of my own governement. However he had no interest in hearing my answers. He continued coming at me as I tried to walk away, telling me in many more words how my country was fucking terrible, how we had a rotten governement, us as well as our "america friends", and when I finally managed to get away, by literally jumping around him, he pointed and yelled after me, right in that crowded street, that we were all idiots who fooled ourselves into thinking we were a democracy. I was shaken, because no matter how many times he said "not you, your governement" it had no effect compared to the threatning manner he kept imposing on my personal space, and I spent the rest of the day biting my lip to keep from crying. If you have read this you might think that I wrote this as an example that white people are met with racism as well, or generalising or something else like that, but that is not it. I don't know what he meant to achieve by attacking me like he did, but I know what it did for me. I understand now. I have always meant that the actions of a few does not, in any situation, speak the opinion of the masses, and I enforce whenever I can that you should not generalise, but in a world as diverse and colorful and beautiful as ours, this happens all the time. I have always known what other people, I'm not going to be subtle anymore, what muslim people, being the most exposed to this treatment, have to face, but now I understand as well, even if still just a little, what they are forced to deal with. So what I want to say is; please, if your problem or opinion or dislike is towards a governement or a small group of radicals, don't think that every person of the same nationality, religion or race are of the same opinion and therefor legible to your criticism and bottled anger. Because the person you meet on the street is not deserving of your hatred and scorn. Not ever.