― , Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Then again, you could say Monaco, who'll let anyone in as long as they're stinking rich.
― chris, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I've always wondered if other Brits find the Immigration and Nationality Directorate's slogan, "Building a safe, just and tolerant society" as sickeningly ironic as I do.
― Trevor, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nick, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
It's a shame as the rest of Australian life is incredibly multi- cultural, what with the huge number of European and (especially in Perth) south-east Asian immigrants.
I know next to nothing about New Zealand, only having seen the odd travel programme and once were warriors, hardly a representative view, but it does seem like a brilliant place.
― mark s, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
How about NZ does it win here too ?
― anthony, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― fred solinger, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Pete, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Re: anti-Americanism, I'm starting to get annoyed with this term and its implication that there are "two kinds of people in this world" -- those who love the U.S. and those who hate it. This sometimes doesn't leave much room for those who are of the opinion that while the U.S. is a great place, there are still a whole lot of things it should be doing differently -- raising any such objection (right now) brings out this reactionary "What, are you saying you hate America?" kind of rage.
― Nitsuh, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― scott p., Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Geoff, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Canada on the other hand, while there are the omni-present native issues, we are *immensely* tolerant of ethnic populations. We are not a melting pot - the national identity is not strong enough to demand that you be Canadian first. On a Collectivism vs. Individualism scale, we fall much closer to the individualism end than the US does, which may sound suprising considering our many social programs - but the lack of a true group mentality more than negates them. While this obviously has some negatives from a national standpoint - it's great for the individual. Toronto is offcially the most multicultural city in the world - you should see the office where I work, out of approx. one hundred people, as a WASP *I* am a minority, and I don't mind one bit. It's great, we do special things on nearly every national holiday like Chinese New Year etc. Strangely enough, we're so tolerant here that you hear many people of the younger generation of these ethnic groups are complaining that we should be LESS so, that their parents should have to 'fit in' more - because what happens is that you have these mini-cities within the larger one - where they can go about their everyday business "just like in the old country". I know quite a few people whose parents and relatives don't even speak either of our two national languages - and don't feel that they have a need to as they can stay insulated in their community and get by just fine. It frustrates the kids that their own parents are so uninvolved in what they see as their own home country. It's interesting as I never would have seen it that way if not through their eyes. It's a really good place to live though I think. Sorry if I've rambled a bit... should be studying.
― Kim, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― jel, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― phil, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthony, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― nature's romance, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― satan's donkey, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Yes we do. NZ is more tolerant of asylum seekers simply because we don't get many due to our isolation. We're nowhere near filling our UN quota. And don't get me started on that treaty...
― hamish, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave q, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Omar, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nick, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
No more anti-Semitic than the rest of Canada. That bull was started mostly by Mordecai Richler, a notorious French Quebecer-hater who based his claim on a study about anti-semitism that has been widely discredited - the questions were phrased very differently in french and in english, and the discrepancies between the answers of french and english respondents were used as a scientific "proof" that Quebecers hated Jews.
― Patrick, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
BTW, most New Zealanders only have a superficial interest in Maori culture, their "interest" in Maori culture extends about as far as seeing the haka performed at a rugby match. as for a genuine interest, you wanna see the amount of NZers who complain about the amount of Maori language on TV and the radio. Maori language shows on tele = about one, people who complain that "it shouldn't be on tv cos i can't understand it" = heaps.
peoples personal attitudes towards the Maori here are pretty appalling, my dad isn't the only NZer who is always complaining about the "bloody dole-bludging Maoris", and i've heard the story a zillion times about "they shouldn't be given land back, we paid for it fair and square, and they wouldn't put it to any good use anyway".
oh and heaps of NZers hate Asians too.
― di, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― lucky hands, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Gale Deslongchamps, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I believe the Canadian equivalent term, as it was lobbed at me in public school at least, is Cultural Mosaic, because we're more apt to have individuals and cultures remaining "as is" within the whole.
In theory that is.
― Kim, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― stevo, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthony, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
But as to non-racist countries, I really can't answer. It is - and SO isn't - Britain. The urban areas are pretty good. Problem is every country has a redneck zone, and rednecks are threatened by anything 'different'.
― suzy, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
However, I think we can all agree now it isn't in Scandinavia.
― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nude Spock, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Gale Deslongchamps, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kerry, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
You couldnt possibly be more wrong. I dont think there is any other country in Europe who has had more immigration than Sweden when you put it against the number of people who live there(9 million).
Swedes being awfully politically correct I think it could be called one of the least racist countries in the world.
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― feminazi (feminazi), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabiscothingy, Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
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― The Father of Honky-Crunk (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― feminazi (feminazi), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
For gross national racism, it might be Singapore, yet for racism per capita, Singapore may be among the leaders.
― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabiscothingy, Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link
My parents came to Sweden in 1976, before Sweden was a multicultural country, and in their opinion Sweden is more tolerant today, although they didnt have any considerable problems back then either.
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
The interesting thing about Scandinavia and immigration is that more so than gut-level "racism" it becomes this politicized soul-searching tolerance-test -- cf Norway seemed to have a really hard time reconciling its cultural tolerance with the practice of arranged marriages of pre-teen girls in some immigrant cultures.
― nabiscothingy, Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― moley, Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link
This may not be an answer to the actual question, but I'd say that the U.S. is the best place in the world to be a black person.
I read this comment upthread and I can't stop laughing. Surely this was an attempt at irony.
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 10 June 2005 02:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amon (eman), Friday, 10 June 2005 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 10 June 2005 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 10 June 2005 03:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Friday, 10 June 2005 03:11 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Amon (eman), Friday, 10 June 2005 03:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amon (eman), Friday, 10 June 2005 03:13 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm not convinced. My girlfriend lived there studying for a year in a fairly iberal small university city (Frieburg) and said the amount of casual asumptions made by locals about people purely from their appearance was shocking.
Without wanting to trivialise the debate, she said that enough people just stared at her for minutes just because she had ginger hair and wore a red coat!
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 10 June 2005 09:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Vlaams Blok abyone?
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 10 June 2005 09:04 (nineteen years ago) link
OK I gotta bite this. Oops, what prompts this comment? I know our refugee track record recently is poor, and I know our Aboriginal problem is terrible, but I like to think broadly speaking we're a reasonably tolerant nation.
After all we're based on immgration, and we dont have a slave history! OK, wow, now Im going to get shit for this comment I guess.
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 10 June 2005 10:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 10 June 2005 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 10 June 2005 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Friday, 10 June 2005 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link
I'd say Australia is pretty racist once you get out of the middle class urban enclaves. What about the huge amount of anti-Indonesian outpouring right now on account the Corby case?
― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:10 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Friday, 10 June 2005 11:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Very true, only it's called Vlaams Belang (roughly translated: Flemish Importance/Concern). The sad thing is, they are still winning votes. So much so that with the next elections, Filip DeWinter might be elected as mayor of Antwerp. :-(
― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Friday, 10 June 2005 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabiscothingy, Friday, 10 June 2005 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link
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― donut e-goon (donut), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― matlewis, Friday, 10 June 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut e-goon (donut), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― g e o f f (gcannon), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― g e o f f (gcannon), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link
From what I know about Uruguay it's really hugely Iberian in makeup, compared to everything around it; It'd be a pleasant surprise to find that that's left it without racial animosity!
― nabiscothingy, Friday, 10 June 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
TO prevent any UK misunderstanding there though, that refers to Italians and Greeks, not (as I understand) black or West Indian people. For what its worth. The term's been diluted into almost jocular use now by immigrants anyway, cf "Wogs out of Work" and "Wogorama" musicals/comedy shows of recent years (written and performed by Greek and Italian Australians).
― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 11 June 2005 02:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 June 2005 03:38 (nineteen years ago) link
as for my grandmother (who was born over there), she definitely never saw any blacks until she was sent to tanzania (that was where the british sent some of the polish POWs who were released to their custody by the soviets when the soviets entered WWII on the allied side). there weren't exactly lots of black people in pre-WWII poland, you know. i don't know WHAT she thought of blacks -- african or african-american -- that conversation never came up.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 11 June 2005 04:27 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm not sure about the cross-burning thing, but I was in Poland when the pope died and just walking around I was shocked by the number of racist skinheads walking around (despite the fact that there were no coloured people to be seen anywhere). This was Poznan, and you can see a photo of one the the skins, wearing a "White Power Poland" t-shirt, here. More thoughts on the subject in the radio program I made there, Poznan Radio.
― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 11 June 2005 05:58 (nineteen years ago) link
i'm also amazed that the "white power" thing has had any traction in slavic nations (not just poland, but also the czech republic and russia), given hitler's well-known views of the slavs and the general brutality of the WWII years not to mention the often-bigoted attitudes that modern-day germans have about eastern europeans.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 11 June 2005 06:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Momus!!! You said the C word!
― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Saturday, 11 June 2005 09:30 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Momus (nic...), June 11th, 2005.
no shit! i was in kracow, and there were, now i think of it, plenty of ominously shaven-headed guys wandering around at one point. it wasn't totally clear what the deal was, though, cos they all had football paraphernalia, and i didn't want to leap to 'east europeans = racist' conclusions. i can't read polish either. but i guess my original point was: my american cousin thought poles were racist because there are no/very few black people in poland. which might be bullshit, otoh, might not be; after all, there are very few jews in poland (?10,000?) and the record on anti-semitism isn't pretty.
not the preferred nomenclature!
― N_RQ, Saturday, 11 June 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Saturday, 11 June 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link
Tibet is the winner.
― kiki ramone, Sunday, 12 June 2005 01:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 12 June 2005 07:05 (nineteen years ago) link
yeah been there. The impression I got was that there were only tourists.
― Ludo (Ludo), Sunday, 12 June 2005 09:41 (nineteen years ago) link
More an administrative probelem than a social one, was my impression. And the figures from NationMaster seem to back this up. As does the recent article in Time
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bodie, Sunday, 23 April 2006 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 24 April 2006 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 24 April 2006 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link
I'd say Iceland is the least racist country I've been to because I've never heard anything bad or stereotypical said about any other race in the country. Then again, 99.5% of Icelandic residents are, well, Icelandic or Scandinavian..(actually, many Icelanders move to the other three Scandinavian countries because Iceland is too conservative for them.), so do they get marked down for being sheltered or being very neutral about it all?
(Point being: "which is the least racist country in the world?" is a ridiculous question to ask...)
Also the "least racist" country could end up being the "most homo-bigoted" country as well, or the most misogynist, or the least. What's the context of the measuring stick in the first place? Thread length? (Hi! :D)
― DOQQUN (donut), Monday, 24 April 2006 01:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― DEEDS NOT WORDS (vahid), Monday, 24 April 2006 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link
so, i mean, america means a lot of different things depending on who's looking at us.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 24 April 2006 06:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 24 April 2006 06:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Monday, 24 April 2006 07:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 24 April 2006 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 24 April 2006 07:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 24 April 2006 07:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 24 April 2006 08:51 (eighteen years ago) link
of course I'm overgeneralizing, and there's tons of denial about racism in America, but still. I'm moderately committed to my answer.
― horsehoe (horseshoe), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link
USA:
Hispanics comprise 13% of the population (2000 census) which include people from South and Central America.African Americans, or Blacks, comprise 13% (2000 census) of the American population.Asian Americans, including Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, are a fourth significant minority (4% of the population in 2000).
ETC
― YOU ARE NEARLY ALL WHITE (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Toronto represents a multicultural mosaic. The 2001 Canadian census indicates 42.8% of Toronto's population being of a visible minority. In March 2005, Statistics Canada projected that the visible minority proportion will comprise a majority in both Toronto and Vancouver by 2012.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't know whether this cartoon being produced in America is evidence for it being the least racist country in the world or not.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
that percentage for LA almost definitely doesn't include "illegals", cuz id it did, those people in addition to naturalized Latinos, Koreans, etc etc would be over 50% easy
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― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
stevem, there is a GULF of difference betweeen the meanings inherent in 'tolerance' and 'acceptance'. I prefer the latter. Ideally would like everybody to wake up one morning unperturbed by their neighbours coming from somewhere different.
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link
You have got to be kidding. You are dead meat if you are a Dane here. The local news is so Greenland-centric you'd think it was the centre of the earth.
I was surprised when I was trying to learn a bit of Polish for my holiday one year, that one of the guys on the tape was a black dude. One unfortunate family in 1950 got off the banana boat in Gdansk!!
― JTS (JTS), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Huh? Greenland has no independence, it is owned by Denmark. Hence the hatred of Danes and those who speak Danish in Greenland (when I said "here" I was talking about Greenland). The native Inuit people are very set in their ways, and the only ever Greenlandic film ever made was an elitist propaganda about an Inuit doing some "soul searching" after his sons became "too Western" (they went on a shooting spree and on of them turned the gun on himself. This is, o course, what being "Western" is all about :P).
― JTS (JTS), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
how many of the "Foreign-born" were born in the "United States"? in real numbers - the number of immigrants who came to New York in the 1990s exceeds the city population of Toronto.
~25% of Torontoans are Asian and ~8% are black. roughly 10% of compare to New Yorkers are Asian, 25% are black non-hispanic, and 27% are hispanic.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
I wasn't using that to reply to you. I was using that to back up the point I was making, and the link between Greenland and Denmark.
Basically Greenland's pretty racist, we can agree on that one? :)
― JTS (JTS), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link
As a European person living in an Asian country, I have never bought the line that race doesn't exist.
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link
I'll bet you dress and talk funny too
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link
yes i am well aware of the difference, and i'm sure everyone would rather there be mutual acceptance of eveybody's ethnicities, cultures, religions (i struggle with those last two way more than the first one personally) in addition to mere tolerance - apart from the people who seemingly genuinely would like everyone to think and believe the same thing (a plague on that warless world!). but seems unlikely given how deep-rooted fear and distrust of that which is different is generally.
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― DEEDS NOT WORDS (vahid), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link
didn't you guys learn anything from "Crash"?
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― remy (x Jeremy), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link
that totally doesn't answer the question, but i just thought it was a somewhat related anecdote.
― awesome is as awesome does (lucylurex), Monday, 24 April 2006 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― awesome is as awesome does (lucylurex), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Old Asain Warrior, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 03:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― ath (ath), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 03:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― estela (estela), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 03:39 (eighteen years ago) link
]apparently the most racist country in the world is ... India?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2013/05/racism-map3.jpg
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 16 May 2013 19:20 (eleven years ago) link