USA, Canada, Britain, South America among least racist

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ds-racist-countries-answers-surprise-you.html

Britain is one of the most racially tolerant countries on the planet, a survey claims.

The global social attitudes study claims that the most racially intolerant populations are all in the developing world, with Jordan and India in the top five.

By contrast, the study of 80 countries over three decades found Western countries were most accepting of other cultures with Britain, the U.S., Canada and Australia more tolerant than anywhere else.

The data came from the World Value Survey, which measured the social attitudes of people in different countries, as reported by the Washington Post.

The survey asked individuals what types of people they would refuse to live next to, and counted how many chose the option 'people of a different race' as a percentage for each country.

Researchers have suggested that societies where more people do not want neighbours from other races can be considered less racially tolerant.

The country with the highest proportion of 'intolerant' people who wanted neighbours similar to them was Jordan, where 51.4 per cent of the population would refuse to live next to someone of a different race.
Next was India with 43.5 per cent.
Racist views are strikingly rare in the U.S., according to the survey, which claims that only 3.8 per cent of residents are reluctant to have a neighbour of another race.

Other English-speaking countries once part of the British Empire shared the same tolerant attitude - fewer than five per cent of Britons, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders showed signs of racism.
People in the UK are also tolerant of other differences such as speaking a foreign language or practising an alternative religion - for example, fewer than two per cent of Britons would object to having neighbours of a different faith to them.
Similarly, fewer than one in 20 people in most South American countries admitted harbouring prejudice against other races.
The Middle East, which is currently dealing with large numbers of low-skilled immigrants from south Asia, seems to be a hotbed of racial tension, however.
Europe is remarkably split - the west of the continent is generally more tolerant than the east, but France is a striking outlier with 22.7 per cent of the French rejecting neighbourhood diversity.
Some have pointed out problems in the survey data, claiming that because the polls span a long period of time they are an unreliable guide to current attitudes.
However, a more serious flaw could be the fact that in most Western countries racism is so taboo than many people will hide their intolerant views and lie to the questioners.
Max Fisher of the Washington Post suggested that maybe 'Americans are conditioned by their education and media to keep these sorts of racial preferences private, i.e. to lie about them on surveys, in a way that Indians might not be'.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Whoops, just moved this to ot where it belongs

 

[jlprk]

What a coincidence. U.S. opponents all rank low. Allies are all high.

 

[BlazerWookee]

Mostly white countries FTW!

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Mostly white countries FTW!

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The study says those countries are most willing to live next to people of another race

 

[BlazerWookee]

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The study says those countries are most willing to live next to people of another race

It's a joke. Feigning pride in the "fact" that my race is better than the other races because we're less racist than those other races.

 

[Eastoff]

It's a joke. Feigning pride in the "fact" that my race is better than the other races because we're less racist than those other races.

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[EL PRESIDENTE]

TOLD YOU ASIANS ARE RACIST AS FUCK.

 

[DaLincolnJones]

TOLD YOU ASIANS ARE RACIST AS FUCK.

hahahhaha you say this in jest?

 

[santeesioux]

TOLD YOU ASIANS ARE RACIST AS FUCK.

white piggu go home!

 

[Run BJM]

TOLD YOU ASIANS ARE RACIST AS FUCK.

They are horrifically racist, especially against other asians.

 

[maxiep]

When I lived in Scandinavia, their attitudes always used to make me laugh. They would constantly talk about how "racist" and "bigoted" we Americans were, while they were much more "tolerant" and "open-minded". It was simply because the level of minorities in those countries was incredibly low. Later in my time there, there was a week-long series of articles in Dagens Nyheter (A major newspaper in Stockholm) questioning whether or not Sweden was lost because Stockholm had reached 10% non Swedish. Mind you, over 70% of that minority figure were "other Scandinavians".

It's like Portlanders who think Chicagoans or people from the South are racist. It's pretty easy to have those attitudes when there is no sizable minority population.

We, as well as countries like Canada and Britain, are a multi-ethnic, multi-racial society. We are also open and self-critical. Those races have inevitable conflicts and we work to resolve them. However, unlike other cultures, we view all people as inherently equal and deserving of the same rights. We're not perfect, but Anglo-based societies are so much better than most others.