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Europe in general is pretty bad for bigotry along different divisions. The stuff people in the UK could get away with saying about immigrants and people in othe

by hueving 12y ago

Europe in general is pretty bad for bigotry along different divisions. The stuff people in the UK could get away with saying about immigrants and people in other countries was pretty disgusting. Every country I've spent time in over there (France, UK, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany) seems to have a culture that accepts making blanket offensive statements about people from other countries (or religions in the case of the UK).

DanBC 12y ago
I agree that there are some really unpleasant openly racist people in England. Is it as bad as the US? Black americans make up half the US prison population; they're six times more likely to be imprisoned; as of 2001 one in six black men had been incarcerated; http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet Laws are unjustly applied, one example is the rates that black Americans or white Americans are arrested for cannabis drug crime. http://nytimes.com/2014/07/29/opinion/high-time-the-injustice-of-marijuana-arrests.html http://nytimes.com/2014/07/29/opinion/high-time-the-injustic...
- dagw 12y ago
  Is it as bad as the US? Black americans make up half the US prison population; Based on the numbers I find the the ratio for blacks in the US is 40-45% prison to population vs 12% general population. In the UK the numbers seem to be about 12-15% prison population vs 2.5% general population. If you look at Muslims instead of blacks then you'll find similarly lopsided ratios in many European countries. According to some sources as many a 70% of prisoners in France are Muslim (read North African or Turkish in most cases) compared to 10-12% of the general population. So to answer your question in one word "Yes".
- dagw 12y ago
  Actually the just as interesting questions to ask is what % of senior and C level positions at large companies are filled by blacks? What % of senior government ministers and elected officials are black? What % of senior lecturers and researchers and universities and black? What % of the wealthiest top n% are black? No matter how bad these numbers may seem in an absolute sense in the US, I strongly suspect they'll stomp all over equivalent numbers in Europe.

by hueving 12y ago

DanBC 12y ago

I agree that there are some really unpleasant openly racist people in England. Is it as bad as the US? Black americans make up half the US prison population; they're six times more likely to be imprisoned; as of 2001 one in six black men had been incarcerated; http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet Laws are unjustly applied, one example is the rates that black Americans or white Americans are arrested for cannabis drug crime. http://nytimes.com/2014/07/29/opinion/high-time-the-injustice-of-marijuana-arrests.html http://nytimes.com/2014/07/29/opinion/high-time-the-injustic...

dagw 12y ago
Is it as bad as the US? Black americans make up half the US prison population; Based on the numbers I find the the ratio for blacks in the US is 40-45% prison to population vs 12% general population. In the UK the numbers seem to be about 12-15% prison population vs 2.5% general population. If you look at Muslims instead of blacks then you'll find similarly lopsided ratios in many European countries. According to some sources as many a 70% of prisoners in France are Muslim (read North African or Turkish in most cases) compared to 10-12% of the general population. So to answer your question in one word "Yes".
dagw 12y ago
Actually the just as interesting questions to ask is what % of senior and C level positions at large companies are filled by blacks? What % of senior government ministers and elected officials are black? What % of senior lecturers and researchers and universities and black? What % of the wealthiest top n% are black? No matter how bad these numbers may seem in an absolute sense in the US, I strongly suspect they'll stomp all over equivalent numbers in Europe.