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20 September 12

A Question About Race

A serious question for a change, I think.

My question is, how do you feel about the way race and racism are addressed in your country?  Happy to hear from Americans but am very curious to hear how people living in other countries feel about the current political and sociological aspects of their country regarding race.

Do you feel your country as a whole is doing well, fair, or atrociously, do you feel they are making headway, staying the same, or losing ground?

Not making any judgments on this end, just curious to hear since this topic rarely makes it to the American media in any serious way. Please remember to include the country you are talking about in your response, if you don’t mind!


Thank you!

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  1. ancientstring reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    Australia is atrocious. Aboriginal Australians are treated appallingly, to the point where deaths in custody are common...
  2. soircitte said: Here in Brazil is complicated. This is because although there are affirmative politics they are almost always used in the wrong way. Prejudice exists, but rather than create that really works all these politics do is to deepen the differences.
  3. alloperi1 said: Hi Gail, In Australia, we don’t handle race well at all. We consider ourselves a multicultural society but still have an inherent xenophobia further cultivated by our politicians. And don’t get me started on how we treat the Aboriginal populations.
  4. exploringshadows said: I think the main problem in the USA is that people honestly believe that if they don’t talk about racism that it no longer exists. These same people literally get angry when you in any way acknowledge race is an issue.
  5. aleksandersamuel said: Denmark is quite awful about race. We have a lot of fugitives from the Middle East, that we have completely given up on intergrating into our society. We’re not living with them as much as next to them, if that makes sense?
  6. jemeryl reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    Malaysia can be pretty racist, but it’s definitely not as racist as the UK, which seems to want to deny that PoC...
  7. gordongrayson said: Australia is/has always been xenophobic. V. rich history of racism. We don’t do enough to educate white Aus abt cultures that are non-white passing. I’m Vietnamese & I see a tendency to claim diversity in media using palatable mixed race or Europeans
  8. parrythemoon reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    I live in Australia, specifically Melbourne. We have a lot of issues regarding race on a governmental level, but many of...
  9. teen---idle said: Netherlands: loads of cognitive dissonance going on. People think claiming they’re ‘tolerant’ and not racist immediately absolves them of all their comments and actions, even though there’s loads of racism here (blackface as a national ‘tradition’!)
  10. frobman reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    I think the UK is more or less like the US, though when I used to live in Egypt, I think it was much worse there. For...
  11. cleonor said: You’ve probably already heard from a Canadian, sorry. I think there are too many Canadians who say that racism is only an “American problem” without realizing that the things they say about First Nations completely negates that argument.
  12. kareemopolis said: Racism and xenophobia in Cyprus are actually getting worse. Greek- and Turkish-Cypriots move further away from a common national identity every day, thanks to a backwards educational system and total lack of dialogue in the media.
  13. mikelo said: USA: I think there’s too much effort to remind people about race and racism, to the point that race is overemphasized, and people are reminded to hate each other. I think we need a reminder that race is only part of a person, part of a whole beauty.
  14. oddball715 reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    White American female, if you ask many primary and secondary history teachers they will say that America is the great...
  15. deletedstuff said: Australia is very similar to the USA. We treated our natives similarly, we took their children and tried to civilize them, we introduced alcohol and disease. And made up horrible words for them. Had the outback been more hospitable I am sure we would have eliminated every…
  16. itomakichan reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    I never really had a problem with people being racist towards me in school or uni back (except the one or two times when...
  17. pearl-jelly said: I live in the SoCal suburbs. Around %60 of my town is asian. Most of my high school was a white/asian demographic. We have ALOT of 1st gen. So everyone in the area is very mixed and exposed to all these different cultures. It’s cool
  18. themyskira said: Australia… well, I think we still have a lot of problems that need to be addressed. The way we treat asylum seekers who arrive by boat, and the way both sides of politics will demonise them for political gain, is absolutely disgusting.
  19. dorkward said: Sent you a fanmail because my answer was long. And it could have been longer. Oh, so much longer.
  20. existinginblackandwhite reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    I think America is…attempting…? Not entirely going well, however. Imean, New Jersey, and I went to a ‘segregated’ high...
  21. sarahsketches said: From me, way up north in the US, where it’s 98% white. The problem I run into is ppl not having enough experiences with other races and are reduced to what they see in the media. Racist, but it’s because of a real lack of knowledge of other cultures.
  22. windona said: USA- it’s weird. Suburbs are definitely not well integrated- the decent-to-nice towns in the area were white, the eh-to-holy hell towns were black and hispanic. The best integrated town in the area had a parole officer for the school. I feel that we are okay for integration,…
  23. amcraviotospeaks reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    Mexico here. I have no idea, honestly. It’s a complicated business, on one hand Mexico has always tried to be a multi...
  24. this-is-snowman said: Australia’s alright, or at least my area is. I’m from an arguably more educated and open-minded part of Sydney where I don’t often face racism or discrimination. I personally haven’t experienced any, so I consider myself biased but I’ve heard stories
  25. peppers-pray reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    Well, I’m American btw, but my muslim friend in England who is currently unable to post online (due to refusing to get...
  26. wincenworks said: I’m from Australia, I think there has been a lot of progress in the masses but sadly a lot of our racism in poorer areas as well as police, politicians and pundits who have undo influence. We do seem to be slowly making headway though.
  27. trungles said: I’m an American, but some of my teenage cousins just immigrated from Vietnam. US media is so globally pervasive that our domestic racisms are globally broadcast - the USA’s anti-black racism seems to stand at the fore to other countries.
  28. dangerous-ladies said: Canada’s dominant ideology is secular and largely humanistic. Military and civil religion are socially irrelevant to us. These things sort of add up; we’re a cultural mosaic, not a melting pot! Not perfect, but certainly making headway.
  29. anagrammaton said: I’m from New Zealand, it’s pretty atrocious here. Britain made a treaty with tribal leaders and then ignored it pretty roundly and stole a lot of land. Whenever we try to make a treaty claim on something, the media frenzy starts up calling us greedy.
  30. gadaboutgreen reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    Hi Gail, I actually live in Portland, Or, USA and I think our country has a good long way to go before the handling of...
  31. utopiangem reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    considering what just happened in Sydney…I’m not sure how to answer that. I’ll have to see how the fall out goes
  32. anonymouslyninja said: I was born in the USA but my parents are from Venezuela.I have experience Racism up close and I noticed when i brought it up, it’s a very touchy subject, some people take their info from stereotypes,or they try to avoid or ignore the problem it is.
  33. whoisjfx316 said: Americans don’t really have a firm grasp on race, IMO. Every year we have an almost serious talk about it and then everyone freaks out about maybe being called a racist over a legit (or not so legit) question about racial issues.
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