Ha. Wanna see real racism? Go to China! The Han are terrible racists. Pretty much all of Asia is racist. At the bottom are Cambodians, called the N-words of Asia, but they despise the Vietnamese and sometimes Thais (who look down their noses at them and sometimes despise them time right back). The Chinese think they are superior to all other races and other Asians (as do the Japanese and Koreans, etc.).
Arabs are super racist. Below the Sahara, there is tribalism that operates the same as racism.
The Anglosphere and Western Europe are actually the least racist parts of the planet.
That’s all quite true I don’t have a lot of experience in China I’ve been to Hong Kong and the areas they would let you go to on the mainland back in the 80s a few times on business as well as Thailand Burma and Japan and Singapore Singapore was far too staid for me man I thought this place is like you know some kind of constructed Disney land but it functions I suppose
It’s funny because Koreans are kind of like a Chinese woman met a Japanese man on a peninsula
Arabs definitely have their pecking order I know they treat the Houthis and most Yemenis in general like the N-word
Also one thing in defense of the crazy Houthis
There are some fighting sons of bitches I mean they are pound for pound incredible I’ve watched enough newsreels and they are I would not wanna Face if they had a good weaponry
Probably the most shade conscious country I ever went to was of course the famous Dominican republic to where it really matters if you are light-skinned your daughter or son does not Marry darker unless that person is extremely rich and even then it’s bittersweet
Even American Indians have their pecking order just ask Blackfoot what they think about the crow
It’s just the nature of humanity and to be honest it’s not such a bad thing unless you take it to the extreme like some totalitarians do
I often surmise on this forum but what has stymied our ability to deal with our problems as a nation comes directly from the excess of totalitarianism of the 1930s and 40s based often on race and ethnicity
Since then we overreact to any hint of racism or ethnocentricity or xenophobia stemming from what we witnessed when that sort of thing gets out of hand even though we ourselves did nothing remotely like that
Even today oh you can’t criticize that group you Nazi you
And the misapplication of the word fascism especially on this forum drives me crazy
Good posting by everyone and merry Christmas here in Nashville we are waiting for the big arctic freeze coming with subzero weather before wind chill
And it looks like we may have a slightly white Christmas which only happens every maybe 5 to 10 years I believe they’re calling for five below zero tonight right now it’s almost 50
And the wind gust are going to be 40 tonight 20 mile an hour steady in the drug camp behind my last car wash where I really don’t give a shit about most of those people there is one schizophrenic madman who lives in the forest who I am fond of I will admit his name is Buck and he talks to electricity in the air and that sort of thing but he does clean for me sometimes and I give her money and try to keep the drug addict from stealing it from them but tonight we may go out and look for him and bring him extra sleeping bags or I could put him in a cheap motel but I’m afraid the predators will throw him out of the motel room and take it for themselves or I could put him in my automatic bay and turn the heaters off or my equipment room we will have everything at the car wash lock down and closed you simply cannot try to operate a car wash in that sort of weather maybe in Fairbanks but not in Nashville
the miss gulf coast near Nola looks better sometimes At 65