24 February 2020, 07:11 AM
jon-nycWorld’s most and least racist countries
By one measure anyway.
24 February 2020, 07:44 AM
Mary AnnaThat's encouraging, at least here, but the curmudgeon in me wonders whether that question really measures how socially acceptable it is to admit to being racist.
24 February 2020, 08:07 AM
jon-nycIndeed it does, but I would assume a decent correlation. My first thought was ‘triple all the numbers’.
24 February 2020, 08:14 AM
MikhailohInteresting that Japan is not measured.
24 February 2020, 11:48 AM
CHASThe U.S and Brazil are not racist? BS
24 February 2020, 11:55 AM
jon-nycMik - I see it as light blue. 10-15%.
I would have expected it to somewhere in the red.
24 February 2020, 12:16 PM
MikhailohCould be. I saw it as gray, but I could be wrong.
24 February 2020, 12:19 PM
Piano*DadWithout having read it, my guess is that this is yet another example of a bullish!t "study." Made to grab attention more than to illuminate.
Just what does "another race" mean in these different contexts. I'm sure it means something very different in India than it does in Japan or the US. And as Mary Anna notes, the survey is likely capturing differential cultural willingness to talk to strangers about delicate subjects as much (or more) than it is measuring actual attitudes about this undefined idea of race.
Then we get into differential response rates and that kind of statistical bias ...
24 February 2020, 12:25 PM
ShiroKuroWhat P*D said.
I'm also curious about how the questions were worded in each language. W/ regard to Japan, for example, I bet you'd get worse answers by phrasing it "people from a different country" or "foreigner" than by phrasing it "another race."
24 February 2020, 12:48 PM
MikhailohDifficult to phrase a question that will have the same connotation in all cultures. And if the question is NOT the same, there's variability right there.
25 February 2020, 12:08 AM
Danielquote:
Originally posted by CHAS:
The U.S and Brazil are not racist? BS
+1
25 February 2020, 10:06 AM
NinaI've been thinking about this, and it's odd. India is the most racist, yet they really have only one race. What they do have is a large number of ethnic and religious differences. Are Muslims and Hindus, Sikhs and Baha'i different races? For that matter, what about Sunnis and Shias? There seems to be a confusion between race and ethnicity. Rookie mistake.