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I’d disagree. I’m not American or British but and in my experience Americans or British are the least ethnically biased people on the planet. Any other group, I
by sashank_1509 4mo ago
I’d disagree. I’m not American or British but and in my experience Americans or British are the least ethnically biased people on the planet. Any other group, I could believe that they are biased but not Americans, or British. Something in their particular culture right now.
- pyuser583 4mo agoIt isn’t just a lack of ethnic bias, it’s a belief in capitalism or professionalism or “enlightened self-interest”: hire the best person for the job, and everyone will be better off.
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- dpark 4mo agoYou’re responding to an American who says he’d be biased towards Americans and telling him he’s wrong. Maybe Americans are the least biased (though being an American I am not so sure) but that doesn’t mean we aren’t biased (even if sometimes for legitimate reasons like ease of communication).
- ThrowawayR2 4mo agoOr perhaps said American genuinely is unaware of how much more biased other ethnic groups are in their own homelands.
- sashank_1509 4mo agoYes exactly, the American bias level right now is probably as low as it can get humanly.
- dpark 4mo agoNow this I disagree with. I expect that you are interacting with a specific subset of Americans. A lot of Americans are deeply racist and xenophobic and I believe that the average could definitely get lower.
- sashank_1509 4mo agoI guess I work in tech. Maybe it’s different elsewhere but even there I think it’s probably lower than most of the world among similar classes of society.
- dpark 4mo agoSo I actually agree with you here. America has a deep, ugly pit of unconstrained racism, and a less deep pit of quiet racism that permeates a lot of society. But so do many (and very possibly most) other nations, where the level of racism is often even worse, just with different targets than Americans. I think in a way America is much more aware of our tendencies than other nations.
- dpark 4mo agoOkay, but the conversation was: Meken: “I would be biased” Sashank: “I disagree” Others being more biased doesn’t make Americans unbiased.
- tqi 4mo agoYes that's why country clubs and the Greek system never caught on...