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Originally Posted by Red Slinger
I think a lot of what we refer to as racism is actually more xenophobia. In my experience, most people that talk negatively about race in Canada (with the obvious exception of Canadian Aboriginals) talk about it in terms of xenophobia rather than racism. I think the "lady" in Lethbridge falls in this category. I suspect she doesn't believe that white people are naturally superior to Arabs but rather that Canadian culture is superior to Arab culture. I could be wrong of course, but her drunken rant wasn't racist in nature but it was xenophobic. Racism and xenophobia usually have different underlying motivators. The ways of dealing with them are also different. I don't know the statistics for sure but I would bet that about 100% of racists are also xenophobes, while the number of xenophobes that are racists is much less. This makes it difficult to address xenophobia on it's own merits when it's often so closely tied to racism.
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Agreed. Brexit was motivated largely by resentment of Poles and other Eastern Europeans taking jobs and housing regarded as scarce by the working class in England. Black South Africans riot against black African immigrants for the same reason. Nativism =/= racism.