― Omar, 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
― nabiscothingy, Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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
― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Friday, 10 June 2005 03:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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
― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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
xpost
― 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