Posted on 01/01/2020 8:56:16 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...
That may be but it doesn’t undo the fact that European countries and the U.S. are less racist than non-white countries.
Social scientists use anonymity to get their findings. With this, people reveal their true colors, and the true colors are predominantly white countries are less racist than predominately non-white countries.
Social scientists use anonymity to get their findings. With this, people reveal their true colors, and the true colors are predominantly white countries are less racist than predominately non-white countries.
Whites are least racist because we have the most fools.
A sizable white population helps South Africa.
It was posted so that conservatives can show this peer reviewed journal’s massive scientific study, based in anonymity that produces reliable findings, to Dems/leftists that they are wrong about European countries and the United States being more racist than other predominantly non-white countries.
Around 2002 I told a limey cow-orker that England would rue the day (Yes, I talk like that) that they failed to expel the muzzies. He became so angry that his fillings melted and ran down his chin.
I wonder how he feels about it now.
Back then, Britain still had a largely positive experience with immigrants adapting, assimilating and embracing British culture, even adding some much needed “flavor”. By 2002, it was just becoming apparent to most Brits that there was a “problem”. I would imagine he is rather disappointed in the more recent immigrants and their failure to assimilate. Or, he still thinks everything is just dandy, and you’re just a pompous American ass. That is, if he hasn’t been stabbed to death.
hmm... well as a person who has lived in different places in the US, UK, Belgium, France and Poland as well as visited India, Hong Kong and Japan for long periods of time, I can tell you my own impressions and experience.
the UK is the least racist country in Western Europe.
I repeat that - the least racist country out of the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Italy that I have seen.
the most racist western european country I’ve seen was France - and that’s a very specific kind of racism - more elitism, if you aren’t from certain schools and families, then you are untermenschen.
next racist in my experience was Italy and Sweden - in different ways, the Italians overtly and the Swedes covertly.
In the UK you will find groups of friends and colleagues at pubs who are of different “races” and they don’t give a dang about that.
You’ll find a group with gay folks, black folks, white folks, etc. all making non-pc jokes about English, Irish,Poles, Gays, Blacks etc. that would get the Race-police out in arms in the USA.
And this “taking the piss out of each other” is genuine. There isn’t the wariness between race relations that I’ve seen in the USA.
AGAIN - these are just my own experiences, I’m in NO WAY saying this is a scientific study.
The Brits are the least racist in Western Europe in my humble opinion and experience
The anecdotal evidence you provided is nice and all, but the scientific study provided in this massive, anonymous survey that provides people’s opinions on others produces accurate results and shows that predominantly white countries tend to be less racist than predominantly non-white countries.
Sociology tends to be liberal-leaning so for this study to produce this is extraordinary.
Sorry Sebastian, your study still sucks. Seriously, get a grip and quit chasing everyone around telling them how infallible this awesome, massive, awesome (can it be double awesome?), did I mention anonymous, study that reaffirms your biases and prejudices is.
Oh, and welcome to Free Republic. You’ll catch on...
Indeed. The UK has, however, had a Jewish PM as long ago as 1868, and could have had two more in the last 20 years (Michael Howard and Ed Miliband) if the party which they led had won a general election. David Lammy has an outside chance of succeeding Corbyn as Labour leader and thus potential future PM. And there have been plenty of BME (the current PC acronym) cabinet ministers.
to the point of anti-immigrants and Brexit.
As you may know, I think Brexit will be damaging to the UK economy and status in the world, so putting that out that at the start of my response here.
Yet I do NOT believe that Racism was a factor in Brexit.
What were the two main factors were:
1. immigration
2. Media distortion
I’ll talk about the 1st — when I lived in the UK, it was already quite diverse. There were plenty of Caribbeans, indians, Pakis, Europeans etc. - and people integrated quite well (except Mirpuri Pakis)
That changed with
1. The opening of the gates to more Pakis under Labour - still not the main issue
2. the main issue was the 2004 eu expansion east. Ironically enough this was pushed by the UK against opposition from France and the Netherlands.
to #2 - the BRITS DID NOT LIKE IT THAT THERE WERE SO MANY POLES AND BULGARIANS COMING TO THE UK.
And I UNDERSTAND them - from 2004 to 2014 over 1.5 million Poles and probably 1 million Bulgarians, Romanians, Hungarians etc.
In 2004 when the central europeans joined, the EU gave countries the option of putting a 3 year moratorium on workers coming in from those countries. Germany, France etc. took this, the UK didn’t as it had a need for workers.
And it took the best and brightest AND the UK economy bloomed. It was a win for the UK economically.
But it ended up changing the culture of the country very rapidly.
Add to that the increased radicalization of Muslims and it was too much.
This was the British politicians fault - they could have under eu rules reduced the flow or even stopped it for 3 years, but they preferred getting more money now.
And they played the media to blame the eu for it.
ditto with “loads of welfare migrants” - that’s false, migrants with no jobs after 3 months can be legally deported. anyway, that’s another answer, not related to this post.
The UK voted Brexit largely due to immigration (too much, too quickly) but this was not racist or xenophobic in my opinion despite the leave side using that - CAVEAT being that I don’t know what was the racist or non-racist mood in smaller coal towns
the UK in the 19th century had Disraeli, born a Jew but baptised as a child into the Church of England. Racially he was a Jew, and by looks fit all the stereotypes (hate to bring that up, but just to bring the point that he didn’t look “english”)
Italy had many Prime Ministers who were Jews - by “race” and by religion - and from my experience I don’t see Italians treating their Jews as “different” - rather they seem to see them as Italians.
“That is, if he hasn’t been stabbed to death.”
Hope not. He was a backstabbing cur, but he didn’t deserve that.
Sorry to say he caused racial tensions in this country to escalate and this wound will take decades to heal.
Take Montreal French side and Quebec. These people were the most racist group I have ever met.
But that’s how we talk to our friends:) You are correct there are small pockets of absolute rednecks but most of us like to be friendly to anyone who is willing to be friendly themselves. It does become a problem though if people are unwilling. It is taken as a slap in the face.
the English throw ACID on the faces of, and routinely STAB,
or hit with trucks, whites and non-Moslems
How does that make them “non racist”?
12. Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States, not a country. Should not be treated separately. Either remove it or lump it in with the U.S.. That will make the U.S. #13 (maybe even #12).
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