I grew up in public school, very few white kids. I was beaten up/picked on/teased for being smart, etc... was made fun of because my parents were European and dressed me in my brother's handmedowns. <--- short pixy cut got me teased relentlessly, was often teased and mistaken for A BOY.
So when I went to private high school I thought, "GREAT! Now I'll be with a better class of kids so it will be better." Boy was in for a rude awakening. Even though I was "the right" color, I was teased and shunned because I was not rich, "the wrong" religion and I looked too Hispanic to "pass" for white.
In the end I learned that an abusive jackass lowlife scum bag wasn't that way because of his/her social class, skin color, religion, ethnicity or anything else that was on "the outside"... had all to do with the content of one's character.
Funny, for all the hatred that was spewed at me wantonly, I learned to have an open mind and to see past what was least important for the only thing that had any importance: a person's heart.