Sociology textbooks regularly state as if it were God's Truth that the United States is a fundamentally racist country. Let's try something different and instead of maligning a whole country, let's actually look at data.
Between 2010 and 2014, the World Values Survey asked 88,042 people from 59 countries if they would object to having neighbors of a different race. Here are the percent who answered yes by country:
Percent objecting to a neighbor of a different race
Azerbaijan 58.1
Libya 55.1
Palestine 44.0
Thailand 39.7
Lebanon 36.3
Turkey 35.8
Ecuador 34.5
S. Korea 34.1
Yemen 34.0
Georgia 32.1
Armenia 31.8
Malaysia 31.3
Kuwait 28.1
Kyrgyzstan 28.1
Iraq 27.7
Jordan 27.2
India 25.6
Estonia 25.4
Cyprus 24.8
Romania 23.5
Belarus 23.1
Japan 22.3
Philippines 21.6
Nigeria 20.9
Ghana 19.9
Algeria 19.8
S, Africa 19.2
Hong Kong 18.8
All Countries 18.6
Russia 17.2
Tunisia 16.9
Ukraine 16.9
Pakistan 15.7
Germany 14.8
Uzbekistan 14.0
Morocco 13.8
Singapore 12.6
Kazakhstan 11.2
Slovenia 10.9
China 10.5
Mexico 10.2
Peru 9.3
Zimbabwe 8.9
Qatar 8.8
Taiwan 8.4
Netherlands 8.2
Haiti 6.3
Chile 5.6
USA 5.6
Poland 5.5
Australia 5.0
Spain 4.8
Rwanda 3.5
Colombia 3.2
New Zealand 2.9
Sweden 2.8
Brazil 1.9
Uruguay 1.6
Trinidad and Tobago 1.5
Argentina 1.0
So, in a sample of 59 countries, the United States is the 12th most tolerant. The percent of Americans not wanting a neighbor of another race is less than one-third the world average. Liberals should be ashamed of themselves for indicting our country.
Whites in general are accused of being notoriously racist, but you can see that Western societies tend to be the most tolerant. The most intolerant regions are Muslim and Asian.
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