i dont feel very musing today but i'll try just one then
i think that's a very odd question, i dont know where you live and i have no idea who would give you that idea ... if you're talking legally i suppose in a lot of places "in theory" it would be, alas to the point where it actually incites.
There's an overdose of political correctness going on, trying to force things in shape and it has an averse effect.
I'll give you an example first : here where i live, its a social housing neighbourhood (it might not look that way to many but it IS a social housing neighbourhood from the seventies when belgium was actually rich) , which means you dont get many politicians or high-class earners living here ofcourse, which demographically speaking also gets more chance at people who have had periods of trouble in the past.
The prices are really great but based on income, a family with two working parents will still pay belgian rent, someone on disability or wellfare will pay a VERY decent rent, and the houses are more or less well maintained by the company. This one is bought, my parents bought it, WAY BACK, at a price you couldn't imagine today really for a four bedroom house, guess they got lucky
its way too small for me and zero privacy since you cant move five metres without being in someones back yard and when the neighbours have an argument i can mostly hear every word they say.
situation description heh
Now, since last year, people who rent and live alone have been getting notices : they have to move out or otherwise pay extra, which most obviously can't afford so it's a "you dont have to, BUT ..." situation.
Why do they have to move out ? they have to make room for people with large families. Now heed ,please , i'm not being prejudiced here, but we're talking statistics, the chance that they have to move out for a native flemish family with five kids are pretty small, i dont think the rest needs explaining.
This comes out of the blue, and some people have been asking for years to move out because the place is too big to maintain by themselves, people in their sixties all single or alone, or with mild disability. And now suddenly after getting denied and refused they HAVE to
make way
for
foreigners
this is inciting, no matter what your local hippie or enlightened professor or politician says, you lay that on simple folk, it's inciting
i can assure you racism is NOT gone, if it was better before, its certainly not now
but thats just here and thats just one thing
i dont know what you mean by racism ?
usually racism means "white people hating black people simply for the pigment" right
but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_racism
there's plenty to go around on all sides i'm afraid, i dont know what happened to the american black panthers, i dont know if Kingston , jamaica is safe to walk around at night as a white dude , never been there but
"positive discrimination" as it's called has been giving rise to extremist nationalism, not just here but all across europe and i doubt its better in america since Trump lol
i got some more facts if you like :
https://www.boredpanda.com/racism-in-the-eu-map-bezzleford
https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map
https://www.mappingprejudice.org/
http://www.enar-eu.org/Map-of-anti-migrant-violence-hatred-and-sentiment-in-Europe
https://www.good.is/articles/america-isnt-as-racist-as-you-think
just a fraction ofcourse, you never hear much about asia but i doubt there's no aversion there , distrust towards strangers is in fact a normal thing and people who abuse racism as a means of self-defense in some way dont make it better
even after they blew up brussels airport and the metro, shot up paris and a whole nightclub full of kids, muslims still make ruckus on how everyone should just bow down to the prophet and accept ZERO criticism on the matter, im not saying all of them, most keep silent. There's muslims here too, africans too, everyone keeps silent, no one threatens anyone, its the only way that works out.
Giving privileges to foreign people or migrants in a time when the country's going down the drain impoverished , as history has taught us many times now just breeds it
saying "it shouldnt be" is not going to help, claiming slavery 300 years ago is not going to help (by the way if you check belgian history on leopold and congo its not been much different here)
Its too much for most people, and especially the sharia-fanatics make people draw a line, a straight line between HERE and THERE, US and THEM, doesnt matter if you're not a muslim, you can be a christian african, the fanatics make it so you are THEM, not US (im not speaking about me, im speaking about the general situation)
People acting stereotype don't make it better either by the way, and once the conflict start neither of the extremes back down. I'm like 90% sure the next elections will go to NV-A again, they speak out against , and people really tired of having less and seeing governments give it away to foreign places and take in more refugees than they can handle while there's already people living on the street, poverty is alarming here, HERE : where the capital of europe is, its REALLY alarming
http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20171016_03134647 (flemish article)
1 in 5 belgians is on the brink of what's considered poverty
the worse places het hit by the aftermath of 2008 the worse it gets
https://euobserver.com/opinion/141888
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/world/europe/poland-european-union.html
its usually not poor people who advocate "cant we all just get along" its people who lost everything and see their world crumble
that's a fenomenon you cant just "write away by law" but the lords of mordor in their high towers dont really see the people on the street on dirty matresses sleeping next to their piss from the 50th floor of their buildings
if you live in a place that allows you to think racism doesnt exist anymore id stay there, lol
so if you live in a place where you can believe racism is eliminated
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