Racism in even the worse parts of America doesn't even begin to touch the racism present in monocultural/monoracial countries.

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Larrikin 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Have you experienced racism? In Japan atleast, it was evenly applied. That company won't rent to foreigners but this one will. That company won't hire foreigners but this one will. Police will bother you if you ride a bike, but they will be polite while they waste 10 minutes of your time asking for your gaijin card for biking while foreign.

In the US people try to hide it and are far more sinister about it, since there are a lot of laws against obvious racism. The cops are also happy in the US to just kill you.

The racism in the US comes out of hate where as what I experienced abroad was more, we don't think you'll fit in and follow the rules and you have to constantly prove that you can.

I didn't spend too much time in China so maybe it is a racist hell hole.

But my experience in Japan was that white immigrants were way more inclined to make a huge deal about the lighter racism they experienced because they had never been somewhere where their skin color was a disadvantage.

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nozzlegear 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is a weird argument. Japanese racism is fine because the Japanese are polite and apply it evenly?

	▲	Larrikin 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Despite what some on this site will argue, racism is always bad.

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Sabinus 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"we don't think you'll fit in and follow the rules and you have to constantly prove that you can"

I speculate that if you were a permanent minority instead of a visiting inconvenience, then that 'nice' racism you describe would metastasize into the type of racism you see in the USA. It's more friction from time and exposure added on. And, you know, slavery.

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segmondy an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

There's a very big difference between xenophobia and racism. Racism is much worse.