Originally Posted by GUWonder
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 don't think they would, but I would think they would be more likely on the whole.
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.
Well of course the more you have the more tension you could have.
However, what I'm saying is that when I was in Germany, I generally heard that the Turks weren't very well liked there.
I would think that when you have a more heterogeneous society like we have in the US that people would be more accepting of folks "who aren't like me." We see them every day, we work with them, we socialize with them, etc.
I do agree that a small number could see little racist hostility. It might be viewed as cool to see someone different. Of course, it might not. A lot probably depends on the generation and how relations between said groups were. IE, Older folks might be bigoted against each other due to issues before civil rights while younger people don't harbor that hostility.
I think it's a much deeper topic than we intended to go for this conversation though.