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Europe is more racist than the rest of the world.
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Just last month, a new report from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance revealed a troubling situation. “Growing anti-immigration sentiment and Islamophobia were among the key trends in 2015,” the report found.
Racism, Islamophobia and intolerance all on the rise
Pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance and equality. Four of the core principles on which the European Union was established – so much so that they even made it into one of the founding treaties. But for all the lofty aspirations outlined in the treaties, things have never quite lived up to those expectations.
Who can forget when, in 2005, France’s banlieues – vast estates in the suburbs, divided from the cities not just by motorways, but also by race and religion – erupted in violence? Or when, in the lead-up to the 2012 European Championship, black soccer players were heckled by racist fans?
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Granted, despite such high-profile incidents, most of the time, Europeans of different races, ethnicities and religions live side by side in relative harmony.
But according to the report’s findings, in 2015 the situation deteriorated, with hatred and intolerance up almost across the board. Europe not only witnessed “growing levels of Islamophobia during the year”, attacks against Jewish people were also on the rise: “The level of anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic attacks in Europe has risen yet again in 2015, after they had already reached a peak in many countries during the preceding year.”
This isn’t the first time Europe’s self-image as a tolerant and open-minded continent has been called into question. In February 2015, Europe compared unfavourably with the rest of the world in a Pew study on attacks against religious minorities.
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Anyone who says otherwise is just trying to demonise Europeans. You really think a big racial minority would do well in like, China? What about all the ethnic violence in Africa? The terrible persecution of religious & ethnic minorities in the Arab & Persian world? Seriously.
racism is not cute and needs to be exterminated 
