Poll of the Day > Do you think that the u.s. has the highest concentration of racists per capita..

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.....in the world? Saw another poster on this site who posted this and said he definitely believed it. Do you agree with him? Or do you think it might be impossible to say?

No.

Maybe in the whole Western world or first world, but not the entire world. And even then, still probably not

Maybe by mass.

Not at all. Racists are hated in the US to the point where most people are offended and defensive if accused of racism. Anyone publicly outed as a racist person or caught engaging in racists behavior or speech faces the real possibility of losing their job.

There are some parts of the world where bigotry is acceptable or even encouraged.
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Mead posted...

Not at all. Racists are hated in the US to the point where most people are offended and defensive if accused of racism. Anyone publicly outed as a racist person or caught engaging in racists behavior or speech faces the real possibility of losing their job.

There are some parts of the world where bigotry is acceptable or even encouraged.

This

Mead posted...

There are some parts of the world where bigotry is acceptable or even encouraged.

For example, the entire Asian continent

India is the most racist country on Earth with quite a few Middle Eastern countries following them and has even beaten out South Africa.
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OhhhJa posted...

Mead posted...

There are some parts of the world where bigotry is acceptable or even encouraged.

For example, the entire Asian continent

What an ignorant statement, particularly when Japan has a culture of tolerance of others.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

OhhhJa posted...

Mead posted...

There are some parts of the world where bigotry is acceptable or even encouraged.

For example, the entire Asian continent

What an ignorant statement, particularly when Japan has a culture of tolerance of others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_issues_in_Japan#Comment_by_U.N._special_rapporteur_on_racism_and_xenophobia

With the possible exception of the bigger European countries, the US is like, the least racist country.

Go to another country. Those guys are blatantly racist af. The most racist person I know is Peruvian.
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rjsilverthorn posted...

Kyuubi4269 posted...

OhhhJa posted...

Mead posted...

There are some parts of the world where bigotry is acceptable or even encouraged.

For example, the entire Asian continent

What an ignorant statement, particularly when Japan has a culture of tolerance of others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_issues_in_Japan#Comment_by_U.N._special_rapporteur_on_racism_and_xenophobia

Lmao thanks for handling my light work

OhhhJa posted...

rjsilverthorn posted...

Kyuubi4269 posted...

OhhhJa posted...

Mead posted...

There are some parts of the world where bigotry is acceptable or even encouraged.

For example, the entire Asian continent

What an ignorant statement, particularly when Japan has a culture of tolerance of others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_issues_in_Japan#Comment_by_U.N._special_rapporteur_on_racism_and_xenophobia

Lmao thanks for handling my light work

I'm pretty sure Kyuubi was joking
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XlaxJynx007 posted...

OhhhJa posted...

rjsilverthorn posted...

Kyuubi4269 posted...

OhhhJa posted...

Mead posted...

There are some parts of the world where bigotry is acceptable or even encouraged.

For example, the entire Asian continent

What an ignorant statement, particularly when Japan has a culture of tolerance of others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_issues_in_Japan#Comment_by_U.N._special_rapporteur_on_racism_and_xenophobia

Lmao thanks for handling my light work

I'm pretty sure Kyuubi was joking

Maybe so. I'm just used to him starting arguments with me over nothing

No, unless you're defining it as people who talk and obsess about racial matters.

Rockies posted...

Maybe in the whole Western world or first world, but not the entire world. And even then, still probably not

It's doubtful it would be in the Western world either considering that it includes Eastern-Europe, Africa, Central America, and South America. As for first-world nations, France and Japan are definitely more racist.

Honestly, it'd be ridiculous to claim that the US is more racist than South Africa whose apartheid -- which made Jim Crow look tame by comparison -- didn't even end until 1991.

Mead posted...

Not at all. Racists are hated in the US to the point where most people are offended and defensive if accused of racism. Anyone publicly outed as a racist person or caught engaging in racists behavior or speech faces the real possibility of losing their job.

There are some parts of the world where bigotry is acceptable or even encouraged.

Also this.

XlaxJynx007 posted...

I'm pretty sure Kyuubi was joking

You can never really tell. iirc, he works there now or something so he might have bought into those claims.
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Zeus posted...

Western world ... includes Eastern-Europe, Africa, Central America, and South America.

what

There's like a island out there that the native people attack and kill anybody who tries to go there so like, they're still living in the bush age, I think they might be more racist.
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Not even close. Not that it's indicative of anything (being a single story and thus mostly useless), but I'll share that the most I've ever heard the N word was when I met a Turkish guy. Holy shit, did that guy hate black people. I also learned in that conversation that turks consider themselves white and European. That's technically true on both accounts, but it's not generally how the rest of the world considers them.

no.

europe throws banana peels and makes monkey noises at black soccer players
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It's hard to say definitively. As much as Europe likes to pretend that the US invented racism, and how they don't have racism over there, they also have Zwarte Piet.

Zeus posted...

Honestly, it'd be ridiculous to claim that the US is more racist than South Africa whose apartheid -- which made Jim Crow look tame by comparison -- didn't even end until 1991.

Not more racists per capita, though. The overwhelming majority in South Africa were the victims of that racism, not the perpetrators.
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XlaxJynx007 posted...

OhhhJa posted...

rjsilverthorn posted...

Kyuubi4269 posted...

OhhhJa posted...

Mead posted...

There are some parts of the world where bigotry is acceptable or even encouraged.

For example, the entire Asian continent

What an ignorant statement, particularly when Japan has a culture of tolerance of others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_issues_in_Japan#Comment_by_U.N._special_rapporteur_on_racism_and_xenophobia

Lmao thanks for handling my light work

I'm pretty sure Kyuubi was joking

I dont know...Kyuubi sometimes makes some pretty weeaboo-ish statements.
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Yall hear about those soccer matches where people toss banana and other crazy shit.

The USA is still grade school when it comes to racism.
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maybe north korea assuming damn near everyone there hates everyone else?
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Rockies posted...

Zeus posted...

Western world ... includes Eastern-Europe, Africa, Central America, and South America.

what

The east-west divide has multiple connotations. One of the most commonly accepted ones starts the east at around Russia.

SushiSquid posted...

I also learned in that conversation that turks consider themselves white and European. That's technically true on both accounts, but it's not generally how the rest of the world considers them.

I hadn't ever given that a lot of thought but, in general, the racial division system is kinda wack.

Golden Road posted...

It's hard to say definitively. As much as Europe likes to pretend that the US invented racism, and how they don't have racism over there, they also have Zwarte Piet.

That and racism predates the US by thousands of years.

Golden Road posted...

Zeus posted...

Honestly, it'd be ridiculous to claim that the US is more racist than South Africa whose apartheid -- which made Jim Crow look tame by comparison -- didn't even end until 1991.

Not more racists per capita, though. The overwhelming majority in South Africa were the victims of that racism, not the perpetrators.

And you don't think that victimization hasn't informed racial attitudes in the nation? Keep in mind that our country *still* talks about slavery like it happened yesterday. Meanwhile maybe half of South Africa is old enough to have lived through Apartheid.
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Racist in the US have a tendency to project their racism onto others, thus making it appear that there are more.
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Possibly the most racists that target that racism toward fellow citizens, since America is quite diverse while still having some very dedicated racists, but definitely not the most racists period. That title would go to a country where racism is the norm.
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Its more visible in the US by a combination of a more diverse population and lower tolerance. There's a lot of crap that happens in Canada or in many european countries that the American left would go absolutely BONKER about, yet in those places no one even think about it twice. And let's not get into Asia (though people already did).

It's easy to not "be racist" (note the quotes) when you rarely have to deal with other cultures, or people from other cultures are much more assimilated.

How many black people are in Russia/Japan?

U.S. not even top 10
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