Most racist continent...

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Depends on what continent Russia is supposed to be in, I guess.

The Middle East is certainly not the most racist of the options. Except for the whole Israel vs. Arabs thing, I can't see what credentials they should have in this competition.

I don't know whether this poll makes much sense, anyway.

Just to play devils advocate here and play along with this thread... The gulf states tend not to treat their South Asia and Filipino worker drones very good.  Further, a lot of Mideast states treat Africans quite poorly and there is still racial/ethnic based slavery in handful.

You're not playing devil's advocate at all.  The Middle East got my vote hands down.

Whoever voted for Africa obviously has never been there.

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Africa

Why am I not surprised.

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Eastern Europe + Russia of course! Why these nations are even considered European is beyond me at this point, the Slavs share few characteristics with the Europes outside of Christianity.

"There are two things I hate: People who have prejudices against foreigners, and Dutchmen."

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What's your beef with Dutchmen... other than their racist holidays.

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Africa

Why am I not surprised.

It's the second place winner for a reason:

http://www.thenation.com/article/genocide-darfur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_under_apartheid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide

http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v3/v3i3a5.htm

By your definition Europe is the most racist continent on the planet.  They have had so much trouble getting along they dragged the entire planet into two world wars that resulted in the only detonation of a nuclear bomb on civilians.  The biggest genocide in modern history occurred in Europe.

Grumpy I think we all know why you picked Africa.

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that resulted in the only detonation of a nuclear bomb on civilians.

Without wishing for a moment to defend the actions of Europeans as a group during that particular war, I think it might be pointed out that the people who did that were not Europeans...

I certainly did not mean to cause offense.  I don't think in those terms.  I was just illustrating the absurdity of another poster's reference to war.  For reasons we can only imagine he choose to ignore millenniums of savage conflict in order to make his rather bizarre point.  I have no idea how people of the same race fighting over scarce resources makes a continent "racist."

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that resulted in the only detonation of a nuclear bomb on civilians.

Without wishing for a moment to defend the actions of Europeans as a group during that particular war, I think it might be pointed out that the people who did that were not Europeans...

I certainly did not mean to cause offense.  I don't think in those terms.  I was just illustrating the absurdity of another poster's reference to war.  For reasons we can only imagine he choose to ignore millenniums of savage conflict in order to make his rather bizarre point.  I have no idea how people of the same race fighting over scarce resources makes a continent "racist."

The difference between Europe and Africa is that racial conflicts in Europe ended in 1945, while in Africa they continue today.

Is Northern Ireland in Europe?

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First of all let me just say I don't consider an entire continent "racist" because there happen to some groups on that continent that have had conflicts.  I consider races to be things like Asian, White (European Descent, Black (African descent), Asia, and Hispanic (this is an odd category).  If two groups of white people have an issue about where a border should be drawn in Europe I don't think that affects how they would treat Asians and Blacks.  I would not consider that a race war.

South Africa is unique.  It is laughable they anyone would draw conclusions about all of Africa from that one country.

I have meet plenty of non-African people that have gone on vacations to Africa and had a wonderful time.  Some of them even went to rural areas and worked in health clinics.  NONE of them reported any problems based on their skin color and nationality.  They of course did not go to any places that had wars going on.

I have been to Northern Ireland.  Since I am an outsider I did not experience any problems.  I certainly was not treated in a racist fashion.  I was actually amused by how much the locals highlighted differences between themselves.  They were obviously more similar to each other than to me.

Grumpy obviously has some issue with Africa.  One group of black people having a territorial dispute with another group of black people does not a racist continent make.  Neither does one group of white people having a disagreement with another group of white people make Europe racist.