Typical Daily Mail always pushing the liberal ideology saying these studies show Britain is one of the least racist countries in Europe.LOL.....Like anyone is going to admit they’re racist. LOL..
A map that shows the very same thing shows predominantly white countries as being the least racist.
For all their claims of diversity, Britain has never had a Prime Minister of color. Instead, they end up with a muzzie Mayor of London.
Deflecting to the Daily Mail via a Red Herring will not undo the fact that as scientific study shows that European countries and the u.s.are less racist than non white countries.
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
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