I'm sure that does happen, with the jealousy on the have and the have nots...but what I've experienced when going out to lunch with friends of different ethnic backgrounds is that in some cases, one race will treat the companion I an with, with total disdain, to the point of talking only to my face and handing the bill to me, like my friend can't afford to pay his/her portion or that they even exist. I find this particularly funny since some of them have much more income than I do!!

Corne, I have to say, and am not being rude on this issue, but I have never experienced racism on the scale that its practiced over in this area. Perhaps its just more visible. I do know that it does exist in America, and I have been the recipient of it on several occasions, but even there, its supposedly known that the South has more racism than the North..but I find that to be the reverse, having lived in both sections of the country. The only known cure for racism is education. Sadly, too many people from everywhere in the world choose not to be educated.

Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.