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I wonder if there's an inverse correlation between racial diversity and racism (whether casual or systemic). Of course it's not easy to quantify the latter...
I'm not sure about the actual prevalence of racism, but one thing I can tell you is that living in a less diverse place makes it real easy for people to be blissfully unaware of their own racism, whereas actually interacting with people of other races forces them to confront it about themselves.
I've seen plenty of people here on Lemmy from lily-white states like Minnesota or Montana dunking on the South in the most bigoted way while simultaneously being holier-than-thou about it.
I just find the regionalist bigotry amusing in its own right.
There's also a reason why Washington state has an intermittent street war between leftists and Nazis and it's not because there's a lot of black folk in Seattle.
I bet there's plenty research on it. I have a lot of thoughts from Polish perspective, but I don't actually know anything about it.
I.E. I suspect there's little systemic racism in Poland because there's no history that would bring it (no colonialism history in modern era and post-WW2 erased any laws from 30s.
Causal, very much - less these days in media, but there's still racist idioms and jokes. I'd say it's directly proportional to familiarity, but not exactly malicious.
Then there's obviously neonazis and "intellectual racists" that have it all figured out.
That's my casual take about this very not casual topic.
Also only anecdotal, but when the foreign uni students were evacuated from Ukraine, Poland allowed them all except for the students from Africa.
It's still bad, but I bet it was thoughtless "Ukrainian students" instead of "students in Ukraine" - that is nationality criteria, not place of study.
We have a bunch of various Asian, Indian and African students - again, also anegdotal.
I would suspect there's a lot of systemic racism, but more focused on "holding the line" of immigration rather than attacking the existing minority groups.
Probably true. But then there's a lot of immigration happening, especially to Warsaw from places other than Ukraine. I don't know how it statistically compares to other countries around us.
I also just realized there's no definition of ethnic diversity on this picture, and where exactly the data is from, so it could be pretty skewed.
It seems like (at least according to wikipedia) true immigration to Poland is tiny (~10,000 per year ). Poland allows a huge amount of temporary workers, though. Germany and Czechia, for example, have roughly 10x the amount of immigration per 1000 people.
Definitely important. It's all a social construct anyway. Its like any kind of taxonomy where you have lumping and splitting of groups. A country could choose to group a bunch of related groups for nationalistic purposes, or they could chose to create in-groups and outgroups.
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Pa(ren)thetic(al). And then the meme image of Skinner so you know I'm making a light-hearted reference
With that said, Poland is one of the larger countries in the EU with next to 0 Islamic terrorist attacks.
I half-jokingly say we're not that interesting to terrorists.
Anyone who has travelled through Europe knows that is not the real reason.
the largest with exactly zero iirc
There's little systemic racism in Poland? Isn't it a country of snitches and the reason there's no minorities because they've aided and abetted the nazis?
Read up on it and let's talk again.
The president of Tunisia is one of those Great Replacement freaks who thinks Sub-Saharan Africans are intent on displacing native Tunisians. My understanding is that that applies to the society as a whole.
I'd say not. This number for Japan includes groups that have been forcefully assimilated like the Ainu and Ryukuans. And then you see how more racially diverse places like the US are. So both homogeneous and diverse populations and nations can be pretty racist, both systemically and individually.