being white myself, and Australian, i didn't have any real experiences with racism until i was 18. I was seeing a Tongan girl,(Pacific Islander, for those of you who don't know), and it opened my eyes to discrimination.

mostly hostile looks from strangers and lil' ish like that, but this one time we were on a train, in a carriage by ourselves, and these three drunk Tongan guys got on.

they weren't too impressed that this fiiine Tongan girl was seeing a 'Palangi', and before I knew it, I was catching a beatdown from the three Tongan guys.

we went out for seven years after that, and never had anything else like that happen again tho'.

sh:ockzilla, baby