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[quote=Anonymous]South America is pretty 'racist' - but it depends how you define racism. I actually think people make fun of differences more there, but also celebrate appreciate them.more genuinely through food, carnival, interracial families, music and such. It seems healtheir to have things on the surface and everyone an equal target - Charlie hedbo style. Thats what I saw in SA, blackface humor and making fun of Chines accents, but none of it was this deep, bitterness we have in NAmerica. I blame it on PC- if you use the word niggardly you can lose your job (happened in DC) when it is not a racial slur. It is just even tangentially offending someone in someway even if u did not intend but they received it that way.  everyone is walking on eggshells and yes, I think its taken the fun out of a multicultural.society to a degree. Do we have problems to be sure. I think some of our policing and community relations are horrid. But everyone is always being asked to apologize for everything here. Its stifling. I think we've learned to keep our real emotions masked. They're probably not racist - just frustrated/fed up.[/quote]

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