Being of mixed race, I have experienced racism everywhere. Western society certainly has no monopoly on it.
For me, western racism involved a lot of schoolyard bullying. I don't remember coming home with a black eye while I was enrolled in the Japanese school system. But there, it was more of an exclusionary racism with people talking shit behind your back. In some sense, this could be worse in that there is a systematic component to it as opposed to a few worthless individuals using any pretext to go after anyone they can pick on.
Otoh when Trump got elected, we learned just how many closet racists there are in the west and how alarmingly quickly they could get organized. I think in general, racists are in the minority and I've met many more wonderful people everywhere I've gone. But when they reach positions of power and influence is when you've got a problem.
I'm brown.
1 - Theres different range of racism.
2 - A racist hick tends to shoot before asking questions.
3 - Playing a "look whose racist more" is a stupid game, like pitting low-class & middle-class folks against each other, or being upset at minwage folks for getting a increase.
It's not a competition. People are people, racism is racism and racists are assholes.
In India, casteism is a bigger problem than racism.
PS - I am Indian.
Do south indian, bihari, north east indian classify as races?
Yes. They are also discriminated. For example, if a Bihari is living in Punjab or Haryana (northern states), they won't be treated as equals. However, if they are educated enough, they will be okay. But if they are of lower caste, education won't matter, and will be discriminated regardless.
I haven't travelled a lot, so, I am not very experienced, and my experiences can differ from most people.
I would say context matters and of course this is not a universal truth...but having lived in China, yes, East Asia is really fucking racist. Towards their immediate neighbors in Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, etc., but also to the rest of the world, and Africans and Arabs especially.
A lot, lot of racism in China. If I wasn't Chinese myself it would have been a very awkward and uncomfortable place to be.
I won't pretend to know about everywhere in Asia but the number of Google Map reviews in Tokyo complaining about stores "employed by foreigners" can be jarring
I would argue there are differences between racism and xenophobia.
There’s a semantic difference sure (racism presupposes a belief in the existence of superior races), but in practice, the consequences on the recipient must not be particularly different…
And those would be?
I'm no philosopher so take this with a grain of salt. The following comes from the perspective of someone living in a predominantly Asian area in the southern United States.
Xenophobia generally refers to a fear or dislike of everyone who isn't of your culture regardless of who they are. Racism is prejudice against people of a specific race. East Asian cultures are vocally xenophobic, citing differences in morals and traditions. They don't hate foreigners because of their race or the color of their skin. They hate when people come into their country and behave in a way that goes against the grain. Dealing with those types of people would cause them to go against the grain as well and it makes them uncomfortable.
Xenophobia generally deals with culture while racism deals with race. Both are nasty and things we can do without, but racism is significantly worse.
You don't have to get a dictionary that's too old to find the definition of racism that strictly required belief of superiority. With the old definition, things like slavery and genocide would be a direct conclusion/justification a racist would make. Words evolve though. Nowadays racism still makes you a piece of shit, but it doesn't necessarily make you literally Columbus or Hitler - and that is reflected in the dictionary as a new definition; where hatred is enough.
Well I agree, but here you go, This is ntg but open racism
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Oh dang
That doesn't make it ok. Pointing out that others are worse doesn't excuse our wrongdoings, it just creates a race to the bottom.
Unfortunately it seems to be a thing that we can be as shit as we want, as long as others are worse.
The racists are downvoting you 😅
You're right, but you're also a racist. Therefore your opinion is unpopular. Upvote because you're a racist and that's unpopular.
This is how it's done. Good post.
You racist.
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We all have our backwater inbred regions. If intelligence follows a bell curve I think the bulge is pretty low leaning, and stupid bleeds red regardless.
A lot of places are a lot more racist than America but get ignored because America has spread it's bullshit to every corner of the globe so everyone knows about it
Try being gay. Then they all hate you regardless of race.
I love you. And if you're not gay I still love you too. Have a good day.
