Canada isn’t any better than many colonial nations in regards to native populations.
Look up Canada residential schools if you want to know more about how badly Canada treated people in recent history
Nah. I’ve read online Europeans bashing every other sort of European, and they’re mostly white. Often in jest, often in “Fuck the Gypsies!” Or the Greeks, or the Muslims, or what have you.
The US is quickly closing on on 50% white, 50% everyone else. Meanwhile, in Europe. So yeah, maybe we talk race too much, or use it as a shorthand too casually, but that doesn’t automatically mean hate or exclusion. We just have big groups of races, ethnicities, whatever.
Not going to hear about America’s racism when Europe is solid white. In other words, why would they complain about black people, or any other major ethnicity, when they don’t have any?
As to other countries, I gather Japan is as racist as human culture gets. Australians are racist with the aborigines. Africans are racist against other African tribal groups. China is destroying the Uyghurs. I know jack about South America, but I got most of the rest of us in there! Not parroting the meme, but Canadians seem pretty nice. Oh, we go insane on each other in Antarctica. :)
Any of that make sense? Feels a bit rambly.
Jarix@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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Damn. Forgot India. Caste system, all I need to say. Not so sure about Pakistan, Afghanistan, that whole area. South East Asia? No clue, but they seem pretty homogeneous in the smaller nation states, though I gather they’re none of them fans of the Japanese. And I’m sure that sentiment is reciprocated. :)
nesc@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks ago
That’s the point for you everything is race, we hate our neighbours thirty kilometers away not because they are white or black, but becuase they are savage and barely even count as humans. 🙃
Greeks and turks aren’t different race (or different anything, really), they are historical enemies and subscribe ro different religions.
Point is, nobody but americans (as far as random conversations on the internet go) think in races or whatever, people don’t hate gypsies because they look like gypsies, but because who they are and what they represent for people that hate them.
Even your statistics is always points out which race does whatever and low-key always imply that latino (whatever the term means) isn’t really white.
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
We do have a weird thing with Latinos, legally and socially. I’ve met many, many people who I had no idea claimed “Latino” until they told me.
As to the law, every job application asks if you’re “white but not Hispanic”. That’s an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) regulation. Also, that’s why we keep those stats. You can opt not to answer.
We’ve had to craft boatloads of laws to ensure that we’re treating each other fairly. But again, that stems from earlier racism and current diversity.
I get your drift, but it would be weird for Europeans to speak of “race” when everyone pretty much looks the same. LOL, I’m well aware that Italians don’t look like Scandinavians, but I gather it wouldn’t be noticeable if one were in the other country?