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Mon 8 Dec, 2003 05:53 pm
Europe
Seven Days Of Hatred
Anti-Semitic attacks have been making headlines, but strikes against many minorities—Jews, Muslims, Roma, gays—are all too common in Europe
Will it ever be different?
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901031208-552065,00.html?cnn=yes Europe
"For a crime to involve hate, authorities must show a bias by the offender against the victim's race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity or disability. The hate crime numbers are based on reports to the FBI from more than 12,000 state and local law enforcement agencies."
Our German laws are much more stringent than those e.g. in the USA (all German NAZI websites are hosted in the USA!).
au, you really are glad to live in a country and on a continent without hate!
Walter
Quote:au, you really are glad to live in a country and on a continent without hate!
Do not understand your question?
Actually, au, I didn't pose a question but just wanted to say, how glad you can be to live in a country and on a continent without hate.
Today's BBC_online reports about a recent study, according to which Britain had become a more racist place than two years ago.
Quote:Almost one in three people admitted feelings of racial prejudice, compared to one in four a year earlier.
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According to the report, 2002's rise in racism followed a slow decline since 1987, when 39% of people admitted racial prejudice.
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Authors Catherine Rothon and Anthony Heath said they found no link between the number of people settling in the UK and the level of prejudice.
Instead, they said it was "noticeable that there was a huge increase in articles relating to immigration from 2000 onwards".
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Despite the recent rise in racism, the report predicted a return to increasing tolerance in the years to come.
It suggested this would happen as more people went to university
"People with degrees are less likely to describe themselves as prejudiced than are other educational groups," the study said.
The report said that people were more likely to become racially prejudiced as they grew older.
link to BBC
Walter
There is plenty of hate to go around. The US is not immune. I suppose it is something in human nature that fosters this prejuduce against people that are different from ourselves. One would think that with WW2 as a backdrop this prejuduce and hate would find it hard to find a home in Europe. It would appear that is not the case. The lessons of history are quickly forgotten.
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