2007-09-30 19:50:47 · 24 answers · asked by Porgie 7 in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ South Africa
I made a mistake. I didn't mean capital as in "city". I know South Africa is not a city. Just a slip of the mind. I meant capital like in being the "head" or "leader".
2007-09-30 20:16:51 · update #1
In my opinion, the racist capital of the world is the United States, closely followed by Australia.
2007-09-30 22:43:37 · answer #1 · answered by Commodore 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
No I do not think so. Too much noise is made about racism in South Africa and racism is used as an excuse in many ways for people to hide behind. If you say something to someone of colour (thank goodness not everyone) which he / she does not like then it is racism. However, this is a world-wide issue and not only is SA. You read about these in the papers all the time and we should know that we are not unique.
2007-09-30 20:35:36 · answer #2 · answered by The Blue bull 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No i do not think so. I think there is a freedom of speech in South Africa that no other country has though. We talk about race and racism and do have debates over it. We are not afraid of our problems and SA's ability to talk through our problems is what makes it great. Yet with this comes added publicity and coverage as we are open about it than other countries who try to mask or hush up racial problems and debates.
2007-10-01 07:16:58 · answer #3 · answered by rabbit1986 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably not. There are countries throughout Africa whose conflicts are exacerbated by ethnic hatreds.
Greece has one of the worst records in the European Union for racism against ethnic minorities, according to the BBC.
Human Rights Watch noted that “The U.K. has one of the highest levels of racially-motivated violence and harassment in Western Europe, and the problem is getting worse.”
2007-09-30 19:58:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are plenty countries in this world that practise racism. South Africa definitely does not have the monopoly on this one.
2007-10-01 03:44:47 · answer #5 · answered by cakes4southafrica 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO, I don't that there is such thing as a 'racist capital in the world.' Maybe there are countries in which you find a lot of racist instances, but if we allow ourselves to classify certain places as such we are allowing the perpertuation of the racism because then people will always now look for such countries where there is no racism and a certain 'breed' of people living there. Racism is bad, but it only stems from people not seeing the richness in diversity.
2007-10-01 02:01:32 · answer #6 · answered by malisto 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It used to be. Not anymore thank god. There still might be pockets of resistance, but by and large, ppl arent rascist, and will pply disappear once the old guard is gone and kids in primary school have grown up.
But have you heard whats happening in Belgium, btwn the Flemish and Wallons (excuse the spelling)? Reminds me of the Group Areas act...
2007-09-30 20:20:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I've not been to many countries and have not read much about them. One of the few that I know to be racist is Austria. I went there and I could feel racism. It was not because I was in minority. I had been in minority in other european countries but it was not that bad.
2007-09-30 20:43:52 · answer #8 · answered by Unathi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but inbred cultural norms are difficult to root out on both sides. We may see an inversion, but that would be the death of the country.
2007-09-30 20:06:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Australia....especially with John Howard (little Bush) adopting the American way of treating immigrants and people of colour....and not to mention the current treatment of aboriginals
2007-10-01 16:07:34 · answer #10 · answered by sebe 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋