Which is the least racist country in the world?

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TORONTO IS NOT A COUNTRY.

JW (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll second gypsy mothra abt the vaguely racist Daily SHow antics - specifically any time they use clips from a foreign broadcast and then do a goofy voiceover about how silly them crazy furriners are (which they do ALL THE TIME). It isn't KKK-style racism, but they're cheap and lazy laughs, and I don't really see any justification for them.

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

MY FAVORITE COUNTRY IS LOS ANGELES

Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

los angeles is a continent or a hemisphere, i'll get back to you (or is it an hemisphere?)

timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

T/S: LAZY COMEDY VS. DEFENDING COUNTRIES WITH HORRIBLE HUMAN RIGHTS RECORDS

JW (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

YA ALL CAPS!

Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

toronto is IN a country

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Canada is in America

JW (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link

america is in north america

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

NORTH AMERICA IS IN ALL CAPS!

Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

NORTH AMERICA IS IN AMERICA

JW (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

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JW (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

This is so much better than doing work right now.

Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link

massive xposts

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

"Pobably Greenland."

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

HINT: Greenland is not Denmark.

JW (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link

"HINT: Greenland is not Denmark."

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

Greenland has no independence, it is owned by Denmark.

JW (ex machina), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Toronto second, behind Miami, in its "List of World Cities with the Largest Percentage of Foreign-born Population".

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

"Greenland has no independence, it is owned by Denmark."

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

It says a lot that America has a 'Hispanic' racial category, even though this is hardly a race.

Good Dog (Good Dog), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

what's a "race"?

gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

dictionary def: a race is a distinct population of humans distinguished in some way from other humans. The most widely observed races are those based on skin color, facial features, ancestry, and genetics.

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

it says a lot that people are pretending to have a serious discussion on this thread after the title question has been excoriated and made moot by about twenty different people, some of whom then continued to post as if there was something else worthwhile to say on the topic. summary wtf.

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link

what does it say that you continue to read it?

s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link

had ignored the thread until now

gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link

i want to hear more about the spirit country. what's the food like?

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link

As a European person living in an Asian country, I have never bought the line that race doesn't exist.

I'll bet you dress and talk funny too

gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link

slock1 I keep hoping somebody will enter into a discussion about Minoriteam with me.

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:44 (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.

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

http://www.infonexus.com/respek-knuckles.gif

xpost

Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm just disappointed that nobody just up and said "MY COUNTRY! MY COUNTRY!". if we all think are countries are such racist hellholes are we just letting ourselves off the hook? setting our standards low?

DEEDS NOT WORDS (vahid), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I found out today that the Respek Knuckles thing is actually by one of the brothers who does Homestar Runner.

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link

whole world in totally racist SHOCKAH

didn't you guys learn anything from "Crash"?

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I learned a good joke about latinos

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

yes, but not what I was supposed to.

remy (x Jeremy), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link

TOMBOT, please tell your latino joke.

Good Dog (Good Dog), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link

a few months ago i was in hamilton and i met some british guy who had been living in nz for a few years. he told me that he loved new zealand but he thought he'd seen more racism here than in england. "yeah?" i asked him, and he went into this big spiel about how racist it is that new zealand "gives" Maori people "special" rights. i tried to re-educate him, but to no avail.

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

I hate when people ignore 5 year old posts and just write whatever they want - rigid thread enforcement is the bestest.

timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry

awesome is as awesome does (lucylurex), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I think it's also important here to differentiate between countries where there are the largest number of people with racist attitudes about 'others' and those where the effects of that racism are worse, more protracted or more insuperable than in others even if their global numbers might be lower.

M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Go to this URL http://www.billingsgazette.net/ and at the bottom click on the Renaming Squaw Creek Road hits roadblock. Read the comments about the article. Also read the comments about the article Billings woman goes to Mexico to reunite with deported husband
Remember these are postings with out giving real names. The racism is so inbreed and underhanded to make one sick. Many of those claiming to be Native Americans are white racist making fun of the issue. I live in Montana and found your thread trying to see if there is a more non-racist area in the world. I am old and tired...time for the monastery?

Old Asain Warrior, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 03:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Old Asain Warrior just because you don't live in Montana any longer doesn't mean everyone there isn't racist. My grandmother Nancy Mulroon lives in Butte, MO and she doesn't like non-American blacks or Jordanian. Why do you claim your country is not the best? American isn't made up of internet comments for people. Maybe after looking at the information you will come to the realize it is you who is the actual racist after all.

ath (ath), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 03:21 (eighteen years ago) link

ath otn

estela (estela), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 03:39 (eighteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

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