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Has Achieved Nirvana |
By one measure anyway. 
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Minor Deity |
That'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.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Indeed it does, but I would assume a decent correlation. My first thought was ‘triple all the numbers’.
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Minor Deity |
Interesting that Japan is not measured.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
The U.S and Brazil are not racist? BS
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Mik - I see it as light blue. 10-15%. I would have expected it to somewhere in the red.
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| Minor Deity |
Could be. I saw it as gray, but I could be wrong.
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity  |
Without 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 ... | |||
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity  |
What 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."
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| Minor Deity |
Difficult 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.
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana  |
I'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. | |||
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