How you conduct your business is none of our concern and I for one wish you all the best with it.
I would like to point out to Rosy et al that my sentiments are those of somebody who does not like to see discrimination of any sort.
Come off it, we all have our prejudices, we are ALLOWED to be prejudiced, and i think that's far from a bad thing. Its far from a bad thing socially, as I will hate the day where we all become uniform monotonous robots, and it's a bad thing for work, because you should speak as you find, and if you find Asians to be crap to work for, then why not air your prejudice? Noone has to listen, and you're not bothering anyone as we've heard it all before anyway.
So because we have one bad experience then it is ok to categorise an entire section of the community like that? Even worse, to spread this predjudice in public (or private, depending on what you class this forum as...) shows a total lack of moral standards, tact and manners to say the least. As can be seen by the reactions in this thread of many people who grew up on council estates, the generalisation made about people from council estates was clearly ill-informed, no matter how 'valid' the staters experience was. Does a couple of bad experiences make a LARGE section of the British public not 'posh' enough to work for? As I said, freedom of thought rarely comes first for those who cry about freedom of speech...
When did anyone start slagging off homos? Not me, not anyone as far as I can tell. When did we pick on jews? Never. When did blacks get the 'treatment'? Never. It's all pie in the sky.
But its ok to 'slag off' (as you so elequently put it), people who happen to reside in houses built be local authorities? Same thing. Discrimination and predjudice.
Council estates? I don't work them, and if I can stay out of them you bet I bloody well do, only venturing there for one offs. Doesn't make me a Nazi, black-lynching, jew-hating woman-hater.
Venturing in there? Seems you feel the same way as TennetClean in your assumptions about people who live on council estates... Maybe it does'nt make you a black hating woman beater or whatever, but it sure makes you ignorant and pathetic. I suggest you get out more. See where airing your predjudices gets you...
My dear TennetClean. You are clearly out of your depth where this discussion is concerned when you make such statements as you did above. I will try to address your query in as simple a way as possible, using small words where I can...
I haven't said anything about races, sexuality and so on.
You don't need to. You made statements that could be taken as predjudice, derogatory and wrong.
(link attached so you can look up the meaning of the word...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination Discrimination is the prejudicial treatment of different groups of people based on certain characteristics. Apply for a loan anywhere and you'll find that one of the questions they will ask is if you are a homeowner, private tennant or a council tennant etc. Will they make a judgement about your credit worthiness on the basis of that? YES
Actually, this is a RISK assessment, not a 'worthiness test'.
Is that discrimination YES.
Actually it is differentiation, see attached link to meaning of discrimination.
Why do they do it?
Risk,as I have just explained. But, hang on. I live in a private 3 bed semi, with decking, double glazing and a 200k mortgage. Yet I find it difficult to get a bank account and credit card. Is that because I am a council tennant? NO. It is because I am a credit RISK!. So, it is not just council tennants that are financial risks...
Council tennants are a financial risk to you are they? Well, ask them to pay up front. I am sure they won't mind.
We are in business too, and in my opinion it makes sense to be )discriminating (actually, this word should be discerning, but I shan't critisise your education level)... about the customers you choose if you want to earn good money.
I agree, one should be discerning in ones choice of customers, although doing it to maximise profit is questionable. I personally select my customers based upon my ability to do the job. If I can do it, I get a customer. If I can't I don't. simple. As long as I make my wages, I don't mind who I work for...
I have merely explained things as I personally have found them with council estates. You saying that all generalisations are the same is simply a load of pants.
You have not 'merely explained' at all. you made a series of derogatory, discriminatory and predjudicial comments about a large section of the British public. Generalisations are all 'generally speaking
) wrong.
What about this one: I have generally found that drug dealers are scummy people. Does that make me racist too? What about this: I have generally found that women talk more than men do. Am I sexist for thinking that?
The first is a moral judgement, that fits with the majority view and therefore is one that is not predjudicial but is discriminatory. If you had said 'white drug dealers' are scummy, then that would have been racist as you have brought race (which is actually a non-existant construct) to discriminate and cause you to express a predjudicial view.
The second point. No. Your statement is entirely correct. Women are more social than men and therefore are liable to talk more as part of their social networking. Men tend to be insular and as such suffer more depressive mental illnesses than women and are more likely to commit suicide.
But if you had said that ALL women talk more than men, that would have been a generalisation, but not untrue.
I know what I am talking about my friend, so maybe this 'winding the neck in' is something you ought to take your own advice upon...
