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Old May 24, 2006 | 1:41 pm
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Originally Posted by Superguy
I guess my point is that I think racism would be much more prevalent and accepted in a country where the population is largely homogenous.
Then are you saying that China would be one to adopt racist profiling at airports? (Thankfully the Chinese don't even have the laptops-out nonsense at the major international gateways let alone this.)

I am often of the school of thought that places that are overwhelmingly ethnically homogenous are less likely to be hostile toward individuals that could be described as ethnically "different". One minority family in a nation of millions = little racist hostility; a hundred thousand such minority families in a nation of millions = increased racist hostility.
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