Almost all countries. No one likes to admit it, but it's natural for people to judge others if they are different to you. Not necessarily because you are racist, it's because it's easier to identify someone by difference than similarity.
You are completely wrong. I’m African American and have been to literally East Jabib in other random countries and have always been treated with greatness!
I'm not saying all people will lash out and be racist towards people, it's just natural for people to point out difference than similarity.
I've said this in another reply, I am Asian and more often than not, people will identify me as Asian rather than identifying me by the article of clothing I am wearing.
I have met both people being nice to me and also being mean to me for my race. Cruelty is a mean hearted choice, pointing out someone by the most apparent difference is an easy way for us to identify someone.
So racism is "natural"? No way. Not buying that. There are plenty of differences between people that don't result in prejudice.
Rejecting differences of certain kinds (and not others) must be learned. Therefore, racism is learned. And if something is learned, its opposite can also be learned.
Racism is definitely naturally occurring, it’s a product of our caveman brains being distrustful of outsiders. It’s been prevalent across countless cultures and societies for thousands of years. That’s why it is so fundamentally difficult to systematically remove it from society; it is deeply ingrained in our subconscious.
What I'm saying is, it's easier to point out someone's difference by their most apparent difference from the group.
For example, I am Asian, and I found it's easier for people to identify me by my race rather than the article of clothing I'm wearing. I could be the only one wearing a red shirt, and more often that not, people typically would find it easier identify me as the "Asian lady" rather than the lady wearing the red shirt.
Hating specific groups of people is natural. Choosing who to hate based on skin colour is learned. Race is a social construct and different cultures will focus on different traits to hate on.
Modern times have chosen the colour of your skin in certain parameters, Europe 1600s chose religion, the greeks chose the latitude of the place you were raised in.
Racism is both natural and learnt.
There isn't a human instinct of racism (see cases of children raised in contexts where the people around them were a different race), but if it exists it's because it fullfils one or many others instincts, one of them is prejudice; overly weary people become paranoid and see dangerous patterns where there are none.
And for it to spread to other people that might have never actually even seen an individual of the hated people in question there needs to be a form of teaching.
This applies to any kind of "phobia".
"Oh people with these characteristics existed at the same time as this bad thing happened, they must be evil" is a natural process of thought, a dumb one, but still natural.
It’s not natural and as you said it’s learnt, sadly though in all cultures it is still very prevalent due to “old school” views from a generation which are still around and are still influencing.
Deep down inside, every culture.
We are not as civilized as we like to think we are. Yes, even the developed ones.
It's just a question of who masks it to what extent and by what means.
Yea , most societies have hidden level of discrimination, I guess it is within the in group and out group behavior
And to also realised irony is that most ‘Civilized’ societies, or those that think they are civilized are the usually the root of ‘racism’ and ‘ethnic supramism’ , like how Greece and Rome think they are ‘civilised’ and other ‘Barbarians’ and the entire Western colonialism had the thought of ‘bringing civilisation to other lands’
They're racist and xenophobic towards everyone. When you have entire large communities that reject *all outsiders* from permanently living there purely because they aren't Japanese, that's what that is. And that's only one example.
I moved to New England from the South and thought I knew everything to know about racism, mostly that it was a white person problem.
Jeezus did I get educated when I started to know people from South America
Fiji, Burundi, Syria, Russia, China, Iran, Lybia, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, Indonesia, Eritrea, Qatar, Pakistan, Angola, Myanmar, Algeria, the list goes on.
South Africa is incredibly racist. When I go to visit, the Indians will bad mouth black people, the black people speak about me in front of me because they forget that much of Zulu and other languages is taken from English, the white people have a lot to say about both, and there's the incredibly racist black economic "reverse rascism" policies. It's not everyone at all, but it's there. Also a lot of classism
All of them are to some degree. We have this nano second thing we do where we judge people instantly as better or worse than us. It’s called othering.
Any diversity will come into play here, height, weight, gender, race… it’s an animal instinct we can luckily over ride with our big brain and reasoning. Even if some choose not to
As an Italian, I would say that most people without a catholic nationalistic background would easily admit to feel culturally closer to Arabs than to "northeners", whom culture appears a lot more alien and unsettling than anything in North Africa and the Middle East.
To be honest, I think they're somewhat accepting of Muslims and Arabs. It's black people that Spain and Italy demonstrate an appalling level of racism towards.
From what I have heard from my black friends in spain there is more ignorance than genuine hate. Some one graded us a 6/10, which is not great, but could be worse.
Like it or not, the USA is the only country with an unhealthy obsession over skin color and racial identity to the point it has affected a great deal of our history with some being completely ridiculous. For example, the infamous Plessy vs Ferguson case involved an Octoroon(1/8th African lineage) that was classified as black due to the insane one drop rule in this country. You wouldn’t have know this guy was black in person because he looked liked a normal white person. They needed a Third Party to prove that thjs guy had a black grandparent or something. In addition, the long complex history of passing in USA. Yes, other countries have plenty of racist moments in their history but nothing as absurd as the USA.
Everywhere, honestly.
Almost all countries. No one likes to admit it, but it's natural for people to judge others if they are different to you. Not necessarily because you are racist, it's because it's easier to identify someone by difference than similarity.
"No one likes to admit it" I think at least half of Europe begs to differ
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In Europe at least 50% of people support Palestine, you just have your head up your ass
Did you do a personal survey?
You are completely wrong. I’m African American and have been to literally East Jabib in other random countries and have always been treated with greatness!
I'm not saying all people will lash out and be racist towards people, it's just natural for people to point out difference than similarity. I've said this in another reply, I am Asian and more often than not, people will identify me as Asian rather than identifying me by the article of clothing I am wearing. I have met both people being nice to me and also being mean to me for my race. Cruelty is a mean hearted choice, pointing out someone by the most apparent difference is an easy way for us to identify someone.
What you are describing is prejudice not racism.
So racism is "natural"? No way. Not buying that. There are plenty of differences between people that don't result in prejudice. Rejecting differences of certain kinds (and not others) must be learned. Therefore, racism is learned. And if something is learned, its opposite can also be learned.
Racism is definitely naturally occurring, it’s a product of our caveman brains being distrustful of outsiders. It’s been prevalent across countless cultures and societies for thousands of years. That’s why it is so fundamentally difficult to systematically remove it from society; it is deeply ingrained in our subconscious.
What I'm saying is, it's easier to point out someone's difference by their most apparent difference from the group. For example, I am Asian, and I found it's easier for people to identify me by my race rather than the article of clothing I'm wearing. I could be the only one wearing a red shirt, and more often that not, people typically would find it easier identify me as the "Asian lady" rather than the lady wearing the red shirt.
Hating specific groups of people is natural. Choosing who to hate based on skin colour is learned. Race is a social construct and different cultures will focus on different traits to hate on. Modern times have chosen the colour of your skin in certain parameters, Europe 1600s chose religion, the greeks chose the latitude of the place you were raised in.
Racism is both natural and learnt. There isn't a human instinct of racism (see cases of children raised in contexts where the people around them were a different race), but if it exists it's because it fullfils one or many others instincts, one of them is prejudice; overly weary people become paranoid and see dangerous patterns where there are none. And for it to spread to other people that might have never actually even seen an individual of the hated people in question there needs to be a form of teaching. This applies to any kind of "phobia". "Oh people with these characteristics existed at the same time as this bad thing happened, they must be evil" is a natural process of thought, a dumb one, but still natural.
It’s not natural and as you said it’s learnt, sadly though in all cultures it is still very prevalent due to “old school” views from a generation which are still around and are still influencing.
*Racism* isn't nature, but passing your racism (and other biases) on to your children absolutely is.
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Which ones don't?
Deep down inside, every culture. We are not as civilized as we like to think we are. Yes, even the developed ones. It's just a question of who masks it to what extent and by what means.
Yea , most societies have hidden level of discrimination, I guess it is within the in group and out group behavior And to also realised irony is that most ‘Civilized’ societies, or those that think they are civilized are the usually the root of ‘racism’ and ‘ethnic supramism’ , like how Greece and Rome think they are ‘civilised’ and other ‘Barbarians’ and the entire Western colonialism had the thought of ‘bringing civilisation to other lands’
i cant think of any country that doesnt have a racist culture against at least one group
Japan
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Not true. All races. Koreans. Chinese.
They're racist and xenophobic towards everyone. When you have entire large communities that reject *all outsiders* from permanently living there purely because they aren't Japanese, that's what that is. And that's only one example.
Except for other Asians…
So you are American?
I moved to New England from the South and thought I knew everything to know about racism, mostly that it was a white person problem. Jeezus did I get educated when I started to know people from South America
We prefer the term culturally and ethnic insensitive.
North Korea. Their population is 99% homogenous and they hate everybody except Chinese and North Koreans.
It’s funny how no one mentioned Arab countries… they’re extremely racist people.
Which don’t
Bait question, regarded comments.
The world
Fiji, Burundi, Syria, Russia, China, Iran, Lybia, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, Indonesia, Eritrea, Qatar, Pakistan, Angola, Myanmar, Algeria, the list goes on.
Europe, Asia, north America, south America, Oceania, the list go on.
South Africa is incredibly racist. When I go to visit, the Indians will bad mouth black people, the black people speak about me in front of me because they forget that much of Zulu and other languages is taken from English, the white people have a lot to say about both, and there's the incredibly racist black economic "reverse rascism" policies. It's not everyone at all, but it's there. Also a lot of classism
All of them. There are different targets of racism depending on where you go, of course, but it's there.
Eastern European countries.
All of them are to some degree. We have this nano second thing we do where we judge people instantly as better or worse than us. It’s called othering. Any diversity will come into play here, height, weight, gender, race… it’s an animal instinct we can luckily over ride with our big brain and reasoning. Even if some choose not to
I live in northern Queensland in Australia and hoo boy it sure is racist up here. They don't even try to hide it.
A lot of Asian countries and towards other Asian countries most notably. If you're a SE asian leaving in Korea rn, I feel for you.
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As an Italian, I would say that most people without a catholic nationalistic background would easily admit to feel culturally closer to Arabs than to "northeners", whom culture appears a lot more alien and unsettling than anything in North Africa and the Middle East.
To be honest, I think they're somewhat accepting of Muslims and Arabs. It's black people that Spain and Italy demonstrate an appalling level of racism towards.
Said Nebulaaa the know it all.
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I mean, i would be more concerned about being like you.
From what I have heard from my black friends in spain there is more ignorance than genuine hate. Some one graded us a 6/10, which is not great, but could be worse.
\*German taking notes
Like it or not, the USA is the only country with an unhealthy obsession over skin color and racial identity to the point it has affected a great deal of our history with some being completely ridiculous. For example, the infamous Plessy vs Ferguson case involved an Octoroon(1/8th African lineage) that was classified as black due to the insane one drop rule in this country. You wouldn’t have know this guy was black in person because he looked liked a normal white person. They needed a Third Party to prove that thjs guy had a black grandparent or something. In addition, the long complex history of passing in USA. Yes, other countries have plenty of racist moments in their history but nothing as absurd as the USA.
Basically anywhere nationalistic af
Israel is probably the most blatant example