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This sounds like racism and discrimination (which I mentioned as separate issues). And they are indeed separate. A country need not have had slavery as an ins

This sounds like racism and discrimination (which I mentioned as separate issues). And they are indeed separate. A country need not have had slavery as an institution to have racism and discrimination. EDIT - I would also like to point out that a fundamental point of this article was that the economist discovered it was basically more fair and easier to escape poverty prior to 1970.

stevenwoo 9y ago
The United States is kind of special in that we enshrined slavery in our founding document in 1787 and this insinuated itself into the fabric of society in a multitude of ways. Apartheid era South Africa may be the only equivalent for the past 150 years.
mikeash 9y ago
You could say that slavery itself was just an aspect of racism and discrimination, as it was practiced in the US. You can’t really separate these issues.