Which is the least racist country in the world?

Then again, you could say Monaco, who'll let anyone in as long as they're stinking rich.

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.

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.

How about NZ does it win here too ?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!!

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).

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.

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? :)

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?

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