Philippines Named as One of the Most Racist Countries in the World
Recent data from the World Value Survey shows that the Philippines is one of the most racist countries in the world.
This survey basically asked people what kinds of people they wouldn’t want to live near and then counted the amount of people who chose ‘people of a different race’ for each country. Apparently, societies, in which people wouldn’t want to live near other races are considered to be more racially intolerant.
Philippines Named as One of the Most Racist Countries in the World
The global social attitudes study claims that the most racially intolerant populations are all in the developing world, with Jordan and India in the top five.
While the country with the most racially intolerant people is Jordan, with 51.4% not wanting to live near another race, India is close behind with 43.5%. The Philippines lies in the 20 to 29.9% bracket along with other countries like Thailand, France, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Hong Kong; only below counties such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Vietnam, Indonesia, South Korea in the 30-39.% bracket.
The most racially tolerant countries are mostly Western countries, such as Britain, Canada, Australia and the U.S. In fact, only 3.8% of U.S. residents are reluctant to live near another race.
What are your thoughts on this? Are we Filipinos really that racist?
cent % correct epecially the ones in deep red colour.
I certainly disagree. The word here is “discrimination”. If you discriminate “another race”, then thats racism. Back then, the spaniards were discriminating us. They called us “indios”. Nowadays, most caucasians are discriminating us. Even the Koreans, Japanese and Chinese. They think we are poor and inferior, and to some extent, is true. So, who’s racist now, huh? If we “wouldn’t want to live near these people”, then why is the real estate and tourism industry booming in the Philippines?
And those countries which have been notorious for being racists in history have become tolerable to other nationalities? This is absurd!
It appears that they are racist to their own race. Millions of dollars are spent in the Philippines bleaching ones skin because they think a darker complexion is ugly. A whiter complexion means you are rich and more beautiful. They feel disgraced by their own people/relatives that live up in the mountains. I am married to a Filipina woman and we were the same complexion when we met. She now appears white due to her bleaching, and scrubbing her skin. That is the way she was brought to believe.
sino ba namang mayaman ang gusto tumira katabi ang mahihirap?… ngayon sabihin nyo kung sino ang talagang racist…