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Top 10 countries with the lowest racial diversity (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 14 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I bet there's plenty research on it. I have a lot of thoughts from Polish perspective, but I don't actually know anything about it.

I.E. I suspect there's little systemic racism in Poland because there's no history that would bring it (no colonialism history in modern era and post-WW2 erased any laws from 30s.

Causal, very much - less these days in media, but there's still racist idioms and jokes. I'd say it's directly proportional to familiarity, but not exactly malicious.

Then there's obviously neonazis and "intellectual racists" that have it all figured out.

That's my casual take about this very not casual topic.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Also only anecdotal, but when the foreign uni students were evacuated from Ukraine, Poland allowed them all except for the students from Africa.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    It's still bad, but I bet it was thoughtless "Ukrainian students" instead of "students in Ukraine" - that is nationality criteria, not place of study.

    We have a bunch of various Asian, Indian and African students - again, also anegdotal.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I suspect there's little systemic racism in Poland

    I would suspect there's a lot of systemic racism, but more focused on "holding the line" of immigration rather than attacking the existing minority groups.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Probably true. But then there's a lot of immigration happening, especially to Warsaw from places other than Ukraine. I don't know how it statistically compares to other countries around us.

    I also just realized there's no definition of ethnic diversity on this picture, and where exactly the data is from, so it could be pretty skewed.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    It seems like (at least according to wikipedia) true immigration to Poland is tiny (~10,000 per year ). Poland allows a huge amount of temporary workers, though. Germany and Czechia, for example, have roughly 10x the amount of immigration per 1000 people.

    I also just realized there's no definition of ethnic diversity on this picture

    Definitely important. It's all a social construct anyway. Its like any kind of taxonomy where you have lumping and splitting of groups. A country could choose to group a bunch of related groups for nationalistic purposes, or they could chose to create in-groups and outgroups.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    With that said, Poland is one of the larger countries in the EU with next to 0 Islamic terrorist attacks.

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