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Originally posted by Rick Lee
You ought to see how much Chinese folks hate Japanese folks. Palestineans and Jews got nothing on them in the hate dept. Everyone's a racist in someone else's view.
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That's very true. Lot's of people are racist. Ask a Greek about Turks or a White Russian about Chechyens for example. Or take the Japanese: try to marry a Japanese girl and you'll find out what racism really is. Or ask my Chinese friend whose daughter wants to marry a black man.
Or scratch the surface of a Swiss and find out how racially tolerant they are. Or a Jew. Or just about anyone else for that matter.
This kind of tribal racism is very, very widespread - and was the norm before globalization became a factor. It is really only in immigrant nations like the US, Canada and Australia that racial tolerance has been a social priority for any length of time. In nations like ours we simply have to get along with everone. We cannot discriminate. At least we cannot be seen to discriminate. But that doesn't mean we cannot hate every other tribe just as much as we like.
I think the bottom line is that this kind of tribal racism is everywhere. We aren't going to change that anytime soon. It's the institutional racism that's really the problem. As someone once said to me in Savannah "Just because I hate blacks, doesn't mean I think we should discriminate against them."