I live in New York City and contrary to the popular White vs. Black racism, I observed that Blacks and Hispanics are very racist against each other. For example, When I first went upstate where the white population is much greater than the Latino/Hispanic population, I was often the only Latino student in my class, yet nobody demonstrated any racism against me. However, back in the Bronx, where more than half of the population is made up of minorities, many young black people would attack latinos and vice-versa. I have even heard conversations in which both sides talk about how much they hate each other. Shows you how racism is not exclusive to only a few races; every race has racists.
In Europe, Denmark and Austria seem to be very xenophobic (don’t think that’s identical to racism) at times, almost wholly directed at Muslim immigrants. I’ve seen Northern Ireland called the most racist place in Europe or the world somewhere. It started with decades or centuries of oppressing Catholics, then they moved on to immigrants and such. The UDA had links with neo-nazi groups for awhile. It’s not just paramilitaries though apparently.
Really? Reports of anti-English sentiment in Scotland always surprise me, as living here for 7 years I’ve encountered none of this to my face (the grafitti in Edinburgh university library toilets had some, but then again, the English gave as good as they got). Do you mind if I ask where you were? I also have a feeling that most of the anti-English sentiment in lowland Scotland isn’t particularly anti-English, but class based, with the English (especially those from the south) assumed to be “rich”. Do you or Quartz have a notable southern accent?
It might be worth asking **Irishgirl **her perspective on this.
Oh yeah, I’m sure someone has stories for/against, and this seems to look at prejudice instead of outright cross burnings. This looks like the same survey, although I don’t know if it’s at the same website. A few of the links are broken, and I can’t find the dropdown menu they’re talking about, so I can’t figure out how to look at it.
If Mecca doesn’t allow non-Muslims in the city I think that qualifies it as the most xenophobic city in the world.
I’m not sure that counts- you’re allowed to visit Mecca as long as you’re Muslim. And even if you weren’t born a Muslim, you can (as with most other major religions) choose to become one (ie, convert) and then you can go to Mecca just like any other Muslim.
On the other hand, people can’t change their ethnicity, so if you’re an African, born in West Africa, then there’s nothing you can do to change that and if you then decide to move to Hicksville, Alabama (perhaps to take up a job as Head Surgeon at the local hospital, or Chair of Humanities at the local university) then the unfortunate reality is that there are going to be people who don’t like you purely for being a member of an ethnic minority.
Well there are several things to note, Northern Ireland isn’t really a country for one, :).Also, none of the major political parties in Northern Ireland court anti-immigrant vote the way parties in other European states or statelets have. I know one swallow doesn’t make a summer but NI has at least one elected MLA (equivalent of MP or Senator or what have you) that isn’t of Irish ethnicity, Hong Kong born Anna Lo.
The caste system in Japan is based on people who work with animals and hides. they are the “untouchable class”. Even people who sell shoes are members.
I worked with Japanese translators who told me that.
Isn’t there an Island off the coast of India that outsiders have never been able to contact the inhabitants due to them throwing spears at them anytime they get close? I would think that is the most xenophobic by definition!
Isn’t there an Island off the coast of India that outsiders have never been able to contact the inhabitants due to them throwing spears at them anytime they get close? I would think that is the most xenophobic by definition!
The Sentinel Islanders are unfriendly, and apparently very, very large.
The Jarawa are not actually hostile, but shun contact with outsiders.
Yes, I do. I can sound pretty posh. Not so much in accent but in phrasing. But I’ve been discriminated against without them knowing my accent, so I’m confident that accent has little to do with it.
That should read: ‘But I’ve also been discriminated against … so I’m confident that accent can have little to do with it.’
I agree that there is more “racial awareness” on the east side, but only because that’s where the black people live. I can’t think of a single nonwhite enclave on the west side, except for the new Latino area around W. 25th-65th. West of that you have to go all the way to Lorain to see any brown faces.
Also, I found your comments about Geneva and Ashtabula odd. I grew up in that area and am “one generation removed” from West Virginia. I knew very few people with that background. Overwhelmingly they were ethnic whites who had moved out from Cleveland or Youngstown, with maybe a few descendants of the original Yankee settlers. I find the white ethnics to be far more racist than is typical of Appalachian whites. Also I think it is fairly well documented that Appalachian whites have much less rigid racial attitudes than lowland southerners.
I don’t want to live among racists, but I also don’t want to live among people who concern themselves with such questions as “who is most racist”. In fact, labeling a particular region as “most racist” sounds to me like an exercise in reverse bigotry.
Not that I don’t think some regions are more racist than others, I just felt compelled to point out the hypocrisy.
I used to live in Phelps’s neighborhood, and it actually is not the most hateful place I’ve ever lived, surprisingly. It’s bad, but I found Oklahoma and Florida to be much worse for racism. The people in Kansas sure have homophobia down, though.
I live in Hawaii now and it is hands down the most hateful place I’ve ever been.
All the races here self-segregate and they all seem to hate each other. Each race has slurs for all the others I’ve never even heard in any other part of the country. It’s the ugliest place with the most beautiful facade.
The first day of school when we moved here was so disheartening for me. My children came home and told me how all the children split up by race, and certain groups would call others names on the playground right in front of the adults without getting in trouble because the adults felt the same way, apparently.
I heard employees at the school we pulled them out of make comments about those same children who were singled out on the playground that were simply appalling. After living in a relatively progressive part of California, we were all shell-shocked by the change, and I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to accept this as ‘normal.’ It just isn’t.
My husband is a white boy who grew up in Oakland. He never had any problems whatsoever. As a general rule, POC have always had more to fear from us than we have from them.