Do you think racism would be more prevalent?

I wish I had your optimism. Racism is still pretty prevalent, unfortunately.

@amitkokiladitya I'm in the USA, and on top of that, I'm in the South. Yes, racism is still pretty prevalent here.

@ScribbledAdNauseum ohh....is it at your place?

@ScribbledAdNauseum You're right on that front as time goes on people become more accepting and openminded. The younger generation seems to be more accepting of others than the older one based on how they were raised. With each step a group takes to make things better it seems to change peoples mindset. Getting rid of slavery, getting rid of segregation, etc. but the thing is it really depends on where you grow up a lot of the time. Stereotypes play a huge role in why people feel the way they do about certain groups of people. If you live in an area with more of one race than another you might be more prone to be racist against that group because that's the group you see doing horrible things the most because there are more people from that group. While yes, we are getting better with racism in some respects it will probably always exist it's just now we are more open on calling people on it. We are changing our way of thinking and what is actually right and wrong and that's amazing but we have such a long way to go on this front. It took us a long time to say "wait a minute this isn't right we shouldn't be treating humans this way" people always assume it's only African Americans we treated this way but it's not. We treated Asians (WWII we threw the Japanese or anyone that looked Japanese in camps), Irish (they weren't welcome despite their white color they couldn't just hide their brogue), Native Americans (we stole their land and treated them horribly) we treated them horribly based on either the actions of a few or based on them being different and we are still doing it. Look at how people are treating Hispanic people hearing people say "go back to Mexico" and those from the middle east because they must be terrorists. It's horrible and it's still happening and it will continue to happen based on misconceptions or the actions of a handful who happened to be horrible. No one in any group is going to be all bad or all good and it's unfair to judge them all on the merits of a few and until we figure that out racism will always be very prevalent in our society.

@sissy15 I have to admit that I don't watch much news anymore. I got so tired of hearing about the deportation, about the border wall, about all of that. At the end of the day these people are human and all they want is a better life for their families. Of course politics is a completely different subject I try not to get into. You are right, it isn't just African Americans, though they were the group that seemed to have suffered the longest and the most. You'll have to forgive me for such a short response. I've got some allergy issues going on and this benadryl has made me sleepy.

I agree with you that there seems to be different levels of racism. I do think, as time goes on,people aren't as racist as they might have once been. I mean that there is no segregation now, we are likely to see and talk to people of all races and I think that goes a long way towards atleast keeping the racist types quiet. I've also known people who are racist based solely on stereotypes. They knew of, or know of, a person of a certain race doing something bad and so automatically the whole race must be bad. That simply isn't true.

Yes, people are less likely to blame another race for a disaster, but that doesn't mean they would help that other race in a dire situation. I simply can't understand why racism is still a thing.

There are plenty of racist people in this world though, and some that probably hide it pretty well... I'd fear that these type of people would have no reason to hide it in a situation where the world was drastically different.

@ScribbledAdNauseum You might be right, but I really hate to think so. I'd like to think we are better than that.

Yes, the truth is that there are more racist people than we think. They are good at hiding it, but they are still around.

@Janet357 I think people can be both hypocritical and racist at the same time.

@ScribbledAdNauseum i see a lot of people who easiky react when one simply shows slight racism, say when it.comes to ages and color, but the truth is, once they are out of forum, they dont like people not their color or age.or whatever that is hypocrisy

Yes, there are still good people who would do anything to help another human being, irregardless of their race. I'd like to think that those type of people would be more prevalent in a drastic situation, but I just don't know.

@ScribbledAdNauseum I would like to think that way too!

@LadyDuck I do not think we will see it disappear in either of our lifetimes. As long as a father passes his views onto his son, we will see racism. I remember when I was a child, probably around the age of 8. We had a vacuum cleaner salesman out to our house and I asked why, if he was black, was his hands white on the inside? My mother was so embarrassed and so mad at me. I think that was the first time I was taught about acceptance of other races. Not that I grew up with racist parents, no it wasn't them. My grandparents, on the other hand, atleast more so my grandmother. She never outright said it, but she'd say something like "It's not right, having a black person spend the night (one of my best friends at the beginning of high school was black).

It's so sad that racism is still so prevalent today. I just don't understand it myself.

@ScribbledAdNauseum Racism exists and it exists in most countries. White against black, northern against southern. I do not understand, but there is a long way to go before this will disappear.

I am glad to hear that. In times like that, you've got to stick together and forget about things like that. It's about survival and being able to go home to your family once all is said and done. We have letters from my great uncles when they served. They never did say much about what was going on over there, but they were glad to hear from their sister (who was writing them letters).

Disasters, maybe, but I wonder if that would change if it was a "the world is drastically different and it's every man for himself" type situation.

I have no words. I just don't understand why people can hate an entire people because of the color of their skin.

@ScribbledAdNauseum Yes and it saddened me.

@JustBhem IT's just terrible what acts of hate and violence occur because of the ignorance and fear of others.

I was exposed to it as a child, and quickly learned to distance myself from the racist types of people. Unfortunately, it's still around and always will be. People often say "it's just the way they were raised." It doesn't matter how young or old a person is, racism is a choice.

I'm sorry you had to go through that. There is still a lot of closed mindedness around the world, you should not have been put through the pain of being considered racist because of your dislike for Indian men after your attack.

@Fa_Maverick That was not right of your ex boyfriend at all, especially in such a public place and after such a terrifying experience.

@ScribbledAdNauseum I mean hey it happens. I think the worst part about it was that the person that called me the racist was my now ex-boyfriend that was there with me when I was groped at the Royal Adelaide Show... It was in a crowd of people and the man turned to leer at me after he did it... Recently I have reconnected with one of my Indian friends I used to swim with and I am no longer of the migrants we have that come to the learn to swim program ^_^