Which is the least racist country in the world?

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...

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.

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.

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.

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'.

However, I think we can all agree now it isn't in Scandinavia.

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.

For gross national racism, it might be Singapore, yet for racism per capita, Singapore may be among the leaders.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

that totally doesn't answer the question, but i just thought it was a somewhat related anecdote.

]apparently the most racist country in the world is ... India?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2013/05/racism-map3.jpg