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Or perhaps said American genuinely is unaware of how much more biased other ethnic groups are in their own homelands.
by ThrowawayR2 4mo ago
Or 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.