Cops. Poor experience when I was younger and a (skewed-sample) observation of the personality-types and behaviors exhibited by cops built me an out-and-out complex over anyone in the profession or those related to it like security guards or the like. Took note of it in the past to try and limit it and have, with much effort and some explicit interaction with my local sherrif's office, managed to tamp it down somewhat to the level where I can at least recognize the cops in my area as...well...
people and at least intellectually expand that to the broader category. Still probably over-suspicious, but...*shrug*
Out-of-staters...IE what local slang for me tends to classify as 'foreigners'
. Find myself fighting kneejerk disgust at license-plates from other sections of the country (New England, the West Coast, and FLORIDA especially--Yankees, Californians and Crazies, respectively...with somewhat-similar ire for Texas because they seem to be
obnoxious) or similar reaction whenever it comes up in conversation someones moved-in from any of those places. People in my part of the US and myself only have courtesy-reciprocity with people from those immediately bordering us or Alaska (oil and pretty landscapes bridge many a divide!).
Admittedly...I am very bad about actually keeping this one in check! Especially whenever wintertime driving or new construction becomes a factor.
BACK IN MY DAY THIS WAS AL FARMLAND, DANG-NABBIT! AND PEOPLE KNEW HOW TO DRIVE ON THE ICE AND SNOW! *RABBLE RABBLE*
College students (since they seemed to be the primary demographic who did this)--For a long time, I was doing bartending and entertaining as my job(s) and good GOD did I get a lot of drama either laid at my feet or forced onto me when some couple got into it with each other somewhere I was working. I'm of the firm opinion that drama is to be dealt with as in-house and personally as possible because...better for everyone...and people coming to
ME as some kind of unloading-point for their spouse/relationship-partner/etc. bullshit was decidedly something I had (and still have) to remind myself doesn't make that person
freakin' weird.
At this point, I'm half-convinced that I should qualify for a bachelor's degree in psychology and/or counseling simply by dint of the amount of
fieldwork my ass had to go through in the course of other job-duties!
In the past 'white people' would qualify as an answer for this question as well, but I think at this point I've been forcibly checking it long enough that it only comes out to play and color my thoughts whenever white people are pulling crazy, racist bullshit of their own.
...Or when they're white soccer-moms pulling that Karen kind of stuff. You all know it, and you've seen it! Don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about!
...Or when they're drinking/extolling IPAs and generally being hipsters--like, those just seem to qualify as white people activities, and since both are
terrible...
