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In reply to the discussion: The Dutch: Traditional, or Racist? [View all]kwassa
(23,340 posts)The study is pretty unconvincing, and yes, I read it all the way through. There is all types of bias in the sense that we have a halo effect; people telling the surveyor what they think is socially acceptable, and what the surveyor wants to hear. It is socially unacceptable to be publicly racist in the US; this does nothing to prevent covert racism. There are many whites who don't want to live near minorities, and white flight is still a reality. They would tell the interviewer something quite different, of course.
Even according to that study that I see as flawed doesn't make us the least racist, only more tolerant than some others. Racism is defined quite differently in different societies, I might point out; our form of racism is unique to the United States. Notions of color and race are not universal in the world, and don't exactly correspond with each other, nor does the treatment of those perceived as different.
For starters, Canada is less racist than we are. They don't have the lingering effects of hundreds of years of segregation and slavery that we still have. None of the Northern European nations are as racist as we are. Prominent African-Americans used to frequently move to France, where their talents were appreciated, and they were treated as individuals.
Most of South America, particularly Brazil, has long been comfortable with a racially-mixed society.
The idea that Pakistan is supposedly racially tolerant is cold comfort in light of the massive intolerance of those less fundamental in their religious views or ethnic background, as seen in terrorism and bombings.
I think you are naive about the level of racism in the US today.