What Percentage of racism around the world?

Answer 1

Original answer:

I won't say racism is non existence in America. Rather there is still racism among the whites towards the black Negros, who had to fight hard dating back the days of slavery to date. However the percentage of racism has come down considerably.

My answer:

You cannot reduce racism to a percentage because different people have it to varying degrees. Most people would live beside a person of another race but many still only marry within their own race.

I strongly object to the original answer's implication that is is only white-on-black racism in the US (but out of respect for other opinions, I won't delete or alter it). In fact, you could argue that there is as much, if not more, black-on-white racism. As evidence, look at how white voters elected president Obama, largely ignoring his mixed race while blacks overwhelmingly voted for him, often because he was considered black.

In the US, there are people from all over the world. There are some people from every origin who have racist views about various other groups. And yet, despite all that, the country works surprisingly well and, in all fairness, racism is lower than in most other countries in the world. Homogeneous countries typically have the highest racism.

Hopefully common sense will prevail;

If we believe in the concept of logic while realizing that racism is a political term and not really based in logic, as is nothing political, then we are forced to look at the term in a slightly different manner than is common among most Americans. That humans prefer the company of people who look like themselves has been documented by several studies concerning the reactions of newborns to their caretakers. For too long, so-called social progressives (perhaps they once were) have controlled the hearts and minds of people who are not seriously concerned with solving our most grievous social issue, preferring to allow their personal political biases to get in the way of clear thinking.

Since racism is such an inflammatory word, I think it would behoove us to tone down our phrasing and realize that "racism" and even ethnocism, if there even is such a word, are natural and common weaknesses that we all share. But since weaknesses can be strengthened, it is not something that we have to be stuck with for the rest of our existences. Unfortunately, getting rid of useless prejudice is an individual endeavor often encompassing many disparate issues and thought processes and is not always well advised. This is an us vs. them world whether we like it or not and there are times when sticking with one's own can save one's life. The trick is recognizing when separation is necessary and when it's just plain silly.

For example, it would be insane for a "liberal-minded" Boer family in South Africa to live in a predominantly low income African neighborhood, or as some farmers have discovered, isolated from other Boers and surrounded by tribes other than their own. On the other hand, for an American to refuse to live next to people of other races whose background is more similar to his than many individuals with similar facial features and skin tone is ridiculous. This is the problem with ideology, it too often gets people killed and it continues the problem without even a trace of resolution.

If pragmatic people and not ideologues had tackled the problem of racial prejudice in the beginning of the battle in this country, we would have been brought together instead of torn apart, and we are being torn apart. Just because our citizens are less vocal about their hatreds doesn't mean they don't still have them. But, alas, this is not how we humans have ever chosen to do very many things.

Answer 2

This question does not make sense. Do you mean what percentage of people in the US are racist?

Answer 3

The percentage is 68% of coloured people are being verbaly abused throghout their lives.