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America Is Among Least Racist Countries In The World
Daily Caller ^ | 10:18 PM 12/09/2014 | Jamie Weinstein

Posted on 12/10/2014 8:45:01 AM PST by Olog-hai

With all the recent race clanging on MSNBC and other cable news networks, now’s probably a good time to remind everyone that America is among the least racist countries in the world.

I know this statement will be shocking news to regular viewers of “PoliticsNation,” but it also has the quality of being true.

From 2010 to 2014, the World Values Survey asked residents in over 50 countries who they would not want as neighbors. Just over five percent of respondents in the United States said “people of a difference race.” That’s far more tolerant a response than citizens of most European, African and Asian countries gave. As a comparison, 15 percent of Germans, 41 percent of Indians and 22 percent of Japanese said they wouldn’t want to live next to “people of a different race.” …

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leastracist; racism; usa
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To: PghBaldy

...having to put up with multiple taxi cabs parked in front of the house and across the neighbor’s lawn...


21 posted on 12/10/2014 9:23:42 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: Olog-hai

Totally true. Any one who has lived in an Asian country knows that.


22 posted on 12/10/2014 9:28:35 AM PST by struggle
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To: alloysteel
That is not the exact situation here in America. Our current government is encouraging and protecting racism. There are ethnic neighborhoods where racism and law breaking occur quite regularly. In fact it is an integral part of some of those communities. And no one can stop it because their ethnicity is protected. They are a protected ethnic class.

And President Obama and the GOP have just supported the greatest racist presidential edict ever against blacks. Amnesty or immigration reform.

23 posted on 12/10/2014 9:34:01 AM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Hatteras

Sounds like you live in Edison or Iselin, NJ.


24 posted on 12/10/2014 9:37:59 AM PST by Clemenza (Lurking)
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To: dfwgator

Well that little bru-ha-ha over in Rwanda a few years ago when the Tutsis and Hutus got into with panga machetes and it and left hundreds of thousands dead does not count as they were all the same color.

Then there was that incident years ago when hundreds of people were slaughtered crossing over from Bangladesh into India. Speared and arrowed. Again same color.

But maybe that is why we no longer worry about who is slaughtering whom in CHICAGO as they seem to be all the same color.
Only when a white kills a black do we in the USA scream RACISM! There is no reciprocation in such cases. Racism only goes ONE WAY. (Feel the sarcism)


25 posted on 12/10/2014 9:56:47 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I survived I-35W through Fort Worth in Rush hour!)
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To: justa-hairyape

The principles that support “the American Way” or the ideals and symbols that represent those principles have been sadly neglected in recent years, making these pockets of racist behavior all the more stark in their marked contrast.

At one time, there was a series of courses taught as part of the necessary curriculum for high school graduation, known variously as “Civics”, “Social Problems”, or “American Government”, which gave at least a general overview of what America was supposed to be, and how the various levels of government were supposed to operate. In the social revolution of the 1960’s and after, these were pretty largely purged from the core curriculum, replaced by “diversity” and emotional “touchy-feely” courses, more for indoctrination than for the development of genuine understanding of the real world.

So today a large part of the Millenials, Gen X or Gen Y, and even college students, as well as those who never even finished the requirements for high school graduation, have NO idea of just what it is that America is supposed to represent, and us older folks may still mistakenly believe that these younger folks have some understanding of just what it was that formed and shaped nearly all previous generations of Americans, and those who chose to become Americans.

Now the push is on to make “citizens” out of a bunch of people, with no close ties and not even born here, who do not even have a nodding acquaintance with what it takes to make up a representative republic.

What is wrong with this picture?


26 posted on 12/10/2014 10:10:04 AM PST by alloysteel (Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
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To: alloysteel

California will be purged of blacks by these new migrants. It is already happening.


27 posted on 12/10/2014 10:19:56 AM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
Post of the year!

I have had many people of all colors and ethnicities ask me if I am racist. My answer is always the same: “Locally, no. I treat everyone I know and meet with dignity and respect. Globally, yes.” They then, of course, ask me what I mean by, “Globally, yes”. My answer is always as follows:

“When I see people like Race Hustler Sharpton, $hakedown Jackson and Obemba come on TV to cry about ‘racism’ then it makes me hate them because I do not see all of this ‘racism’ on the street when I meet people.”

They always tend to begrudgingly agree and say that they have never looked at the issue in those terms.

I fully intend to plagiarize this most excellent response to the question!

28 posted on 12/10/2014 10:35:27 AM PST by Taxman
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To: alloysteel

“. . . with no close ties and not even born here, who do[es] not . . . have a nodding acquaintance with what it takes to make up a representative republic.”

Pretty good description of Ophonybama, I’d say!


29 posted on 12/10/2014 10:39:50 AM PST by Taxman
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Check out how the dark skinned Mexicans are treated by their light skinned brothers.

I spent a lot of time in Honduras, and the "indigenous" looking Hondurans were treated like dirt. The casual racism against them was appalling. The darker the Honduran, the lower social standing except the Africans. Those had come over on a pair boats back a few hundred years ago and they aren't lumped in with the "natives".

It reminded me of that Star Trek episode "Let that be your last battlefield" where half the people were dark on one side and white on the other and the other half of the people were opposite. Hondurans would indicate "avoid that guy, he's a lowlife" and just like Kirk, I couldn't see why, they looked the same to me.

30 posted on 12/10/2014 12:25:41 PM PST by Malsua
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To: EagleUSA
Is this somehow supposed to erase the racism industry in America?? Somehow to make it look insignificant??
Define “the racism industry.”

31 posted on 12/10/2014 1:38:43 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ("Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

dark-skinned vs light-skinned Mexicans ...

If you really want to hear some nastiness, check out how light-skinned Mexicans treat south Americans like people from Guatemala or Honduras.

Not pretty.


32 posted on 12/10/2014 1:57:37 PM PST by Cloverfarm
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To: Cloverfarm
We've visited Oaxaca, Mexico. Everyone there is 5 feet tall and brown. Most speak a local dialect, not Spanish.
They are considered children by northern Mexicans.

At the same time, a friend from Puebla is dark but tall and has a Masters degree in Chemistry. He rolls over this discrimination with humor, (”I'm from Tiero del Fuego...”) is one of his opening lines.

33 posted on 12/10/2014 4:07:48 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Taxman

“I fully intend to plagiarize this most excellent response to the question!”

Plagiarize at will. We have to get the word out! ;-)


34 posted on 12/10/2014 6:50:01 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: Taxman

We should also try to add a stabbing reference to the “enabling MSM”.


35 posted on 12/10/2014 6:54:44 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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