This appeared in today's Washington Post:
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When two Swedish economists set out to examine whether economic freedom made people any more or less racist, they knew how they would gauge economic freedom, but they needed to find a way to measure a country’s level of racial tolerance. So they turned to something called the World Values Survey, which has been measuring global attitudes and opinions for decades....
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
I am very suprised to see France, Isreal, and South Korea as being so racist.
Really? Those were among the ones I expected to look like that. I was actually surprised by Japan, England, and the Christian democracies being as blue as they are...but I suppose the race struggles in those nations haven't affected the willingness of people of a different race to live next to each other yet.Originally Posted by Sullyute
Last edited by DanielLaRusso; 05-17-2013 at 06:43 PM.
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Yeah, France was not a surprise to me. There is a lot of ethnic angst in that country.
Maybe I am confusing race with culture or ethnicity. I thought that france was very accepting of different cultures and lifestyles? I thought that they just hated Americans but I guess they hate everyone.
What about isreal. I realize that there are religious and cultural issues going on there but do jews and arabs consider themselves different races?
P.S. I would prefer that my neighbors be mormon but I don't care what race they are... as long as they are not from Texas! ( that was for FM coug).
Last edited by Sullyute; 05-17-2013 at 02:59 PM.
Gallic pride. I expected Japan to be less open than it apparently is.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Here's one that's closer to home. This site has a map of the US that breaks down tweets using 'hate' tweets. Pretty interesting (and to me disturbing)
http://users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/hate/hate_map.html#
South Idaho.
Desse jeito, não tem jeito.
Yikes! What is going on in Southern Idaho?
Idaho has been a bastion for hate groups for a long time. There's a large white supremacist movement there.
So there's a patch of homophobes in Park City. I didn't see that coming.
Yes, the Ashkenazi and Sephardi lineages of Jews that immigrated to Israel are different from Arabs...going further back, Canaanites are not Arabs either.
The French are, in fact, NOT very tolerant of other cultures (they're not hot on non-"French" lifestyles either...but that's whole 'nother ball of wax). French naturalization hinges very tightly on assimilation and acculturation. Further, it's not uncommon for "blood French" to publicly deny the legitimacy of the citizenship granted to immigrant children. To sum up, in shocking news, the French can be dicks.
Last edited by DanielLaRusso; 05-17-2013 at 06:37 PM.
2014 utahby5 World Cup Bracket Predictor Challenge Champion. No one who speaks German could be an evil man.
I thought the white supremacists were mostly in north Idaho. I would think there is too much in Malad and Burley, both small farming towns. Can we summon Goatnapper's or Grapevine for more info?
“To me there is no dishonor in being wrong and learning. There is dishonor in willful ignorance and there is dishonor in disrespect.” James Hatch, former Navy Seal and current Yale student.
Awesome. This kind of thing moves me closer to believing in a cosmic purpose to human existence.
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
--Albert Einstein
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
--Richard Dawkins
Be kind to all, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
--Philo
It does make me feel pretty good about the USA.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
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