ideal of racial harmony
Aug 2, 2016, 4:38 am
#16
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One built on facts that racism is alive in Brazil too.
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallel...one-by-reality
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/op...azil.html?_r=0
Racism isn't dead in Singapore either, but authoritarian regimes have a way of having racism (a politicized approach to groups of people) pushed underground -- for fear of its public expression fostering "strife" and giving rise to other centers of power. All in the interest of regime preservation.
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallel...one-by-reality
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/op...azil.html?_r=0
Racism isn't dead in Singapore either, but authoritarian regimes have a way of having racism (a politicized approach to groups of people) pushed underground -- for fear of its public expression fostering "strife" and giving rise to other centers of power. All in the interest of regime preservation.
Aug 4, 2016, 2:45 am
#17
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I don't think true racial harmony exists anywhere; at least not in the countries I've been a resident of in the past. Singapore is probably better described as racial tolerance. My opinion, anyway.
Aug 4, 2016, 6:42 am
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Aug 4, 2016, 4:37 pm
#19
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Perfect racial harmony exists nowhere because perfect human harmony exists nowhere. People always fight about things, whether directly through a war or indirectly through prejudice/'sticking together with my own people'/ etc.
Yet I am pretty damn sure that massive racial issues such as in the US are certainly not the norm in most of the world. Thankfully.
Yes we have issues in western europe too. But they are not comparable to racial issues and ways of thinking about race in the US, where everyone is divided into what I would call 'boxes'. You are Black, White, Mixed, Hispanic or Asian in the US. This is just simply Not Such An Issue here in Europe and there are many places in the world where it is even much less of an issue than here in Europe (I think Brazil was a good example).
Yet I am pretty damn sure that massive racial issues such as in the US are certainly not the norm in most of the world. Thankfully.
Yes we have issues in western europe too. But they are not comparable to racial issues and ways of thinking about race in the US, where everyone is divided into what I would call 'boxes'. You are Black, White, Mixed, Hispanic or Asian in the US. This is just simply Not Such An Issue here in Europe and there are many places in the world where it is even much less of an issue than here in Europe (I think Brazil was a good example).