To be a bit worried about my Muslim friend?

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My friend has just got a job where I used to work. We’re nurses and she’s used to working in multicultural hospital. Where she’s going she will be the only Muslim there. Shouldn’t be a problem but the people there are not the nicest. Very gossipy and backstabbing. One of the reasons I left.

The main problem is her job is community based and the area she’s going to be working is non-multicultural. Infact I only remember one non-white-British family in all my time I was there. A lot of the patients are openly racist. I’m not sure how they will react to her. I’m trying not to freak her out or worry her so I’ve not mentioned it but I feel like I’m hiding it from her. I so hope she will be ok and I hope I AM being unreasonable?

AIBU to be worried for her?

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Given what you describe it’s understandable that you should worry for your friend. But it’s also completely pointless.

Yes YABU. She'll do her own research on the area.

Plus, there are racist people everywhere and often more so in multicultural areas.

Leave her be, otherwise you might worry the life out of the poor woman.

She's a Muslim in the UK. I'm sure she'll have encountered racism. Her desicion where she works.

Well I hope she reports any racism and the patients dishing it out get struck off. If that leaves them with no medical care, fuck them, shouldn't have been racist.

My Catholic, southern Irish accented, southern reg car driving friend blithely and unknowingly took a job in a very Protestant region in a picturesque village in Northern Ireland with the highest proportion of thick, tiny minded, bigoted people on either side of the border. From her kitchen window she could see "THE ONLY GOOD FENIAN IS A DEAD ONE" in two foot high letters spray painted on a wall (I say picturesque...well the setting was lovely but the tattered flags and sectarian graffiti spoiled it somewhat). Most people she came into contact with were OKish, a couple were kind of nice, several were downright hostile arseholes. Nobody tried to really make her feel welcome or ask her to the pub or anything community related. She used to get the hell out of there at weekends, amused herself during the week by buying the Newsletter and the Irish News in the local shop at the same time just to fuck with people's heads a bit, lasted in the job for about 6 months and then left to go somewhere with fewer wankers.

Maybe warn her a little bit, be available for phone chats and explain that if it turns out that everyone seems to be unfriendly arseholes she is not imagining it and it's not her, it's them and that if she thinks fuck this, I'm out after a few weeks in the job then don't feel bad for "quitting".