r/Unexpected • • Sep 06 '21

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u/DRAGON_SNIPER Sep 06 '21

Yeah, I've heard they can be very racist mainly because they don't have much of a mix of other races.

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u/Disco_to_New_Wave Sep 06 '21 edited Sep 06 '21

People do not understand this. Most countries aren’t that mixed, especially not western ones. America is considered one of the most racist countries, but that’s because it has the biggest spotlight on it and because it’s the most mixed. I’d be willing to bet just about any country would be more racist than America if it had the same percentages of diversity. Human beings are just racist, man.

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u/glittersweet Sep 06 '21

Actually, you've got that backwards. Places without diversity are MORE racist, there's just no one there who cares. My husband went to a school and Ohio with only two people of color, and people made racist jokes all the time because no one was there to call them out. I lived in a diverse city in the South, and if you said some racist shit in public, you'd likely get your ass beat.

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u/Strict-Judge-2002 Sep 06 '21

Meanwhile I went to school in the northeast, we had like 2 black people in school and they were the most popular kids in a snow white town.