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It's so strange to see how racism and discrimination is carried out in other countries. Even more so when that country is a highly developed like Singapore. Bei
by yardie 4y ago
It's so strange to see how racism and discrimination is carried out in other countries. Even more so when that country is a highly developed like Singapore. Being from the US where housing is highly protected, due mostly to decades of racial discrimination, I'm just thinking "holy shit they'd be eaten alive with the lawsuits coming their way for so blatantly putting it out there."
Also,
> 99.co is now tackling this by introducing an “all-races-welcome” indicator on its website. What this means is that agents and landlords can positively indicate that their properties can be rented by anyone regardless of ethnicity.
Kind of sad they would even need to do this. Maybe William Gibsons Wired article about 90s Singapore was exactly right.
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoRacism is relative.... I live in a former socialist country (with red stars, government owning the means of production and also a dictator), and things like affirmative action and prefered minority hiring would be seen as totally racist here.
- unpopularopp 4y ago>Racism is relative. >things like affirmative action and prefered minority hiring would be seen as totally racist here No they aren't Whole Central Europe from Poland to Hungary through Ukraine and the Balkan and racist against Roma people. Pretty much everyone hates them. Most governments and the EU have special programs to help Roma people to get jobs because they are discriminated everywhere.
- swagasaurus-rex 4y agoIf a Roma individual took up a job and integrated with society, would they still be Roma?
- deodorel 4y agoProbably not, and he will be shunned by his community. The Roma problem is at this moment unsolvable and it will lead to some sad situation at some point :(.