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How would you deal with this racist person/situation?

Asked by poisonedantidote (21675points) July 29th, 2011

A friend of mine recently moved to the UK to do some volunteer work. My friend is asian, and spends most of the time with patients or other volunteers.

You would expect people who volunteer their time for people with mental diseases to be empathetic and nice decent people, but that does not seem to be the case.

My friend has a very good level of English, but in a strange land, with new people and new customs, and all alone, my friend is reluctant to talk too much. She will socialize with others, but likes to be alone in her room after 10pm.

Today she overheard one of the other volunteers saying the following:

“Oh, where is X, oh thats right, X has gone to her room, because thats what asians do, they go to their room alone.”

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