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Does living in a multicultural environment lessen racism?
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tynamite
tynamite's avatar No. It instead encourages people to keep within their racial confines even further.

Racism aside, if people don't want to integrate, then multiculturalism has failed.
A good analogy is a pool with different coloured food colouring bottles poured in at different areas of the pool. They stay as they are.

When politicians made discrimination illegal, all it did is push racism underground. It didn't get rid of the problem.
Even if people aren't racist, they are still prejudiced.
Nowadays some people look down on other races refusing to associate with them, regarding their race as superior. Even if they are nice and helpful to such people, they still have their views.

Update

When I was in primary school, there were white people and black people in the class. Nobody ever was made to feel different because of their race. It was a Catholic school which also has Protestants in it. Children only asked others if they were a Catholic, as Protestants didn't have to do Holy Communion and Confessionals. One child at 11 said he was racist, and he said yes when his class asked him if his parents were racist. Strangely he spoke to the people he was racist to, and nobody could ever tell he was racist until he revealed it. In fact I don't even think he was racist. All he did is call a girl a dirty black slag for the whole 6 years of being in that school and nothing else.

Fast forward five years, where immigration is now rife in Britain, and things are completely different. Nowadays the children are actively aware of the different races, as they "see race", children ask others where they are from, even if they are white; and people are made to feel different because of their race.

So what changed?

Well as there are now asians in the Catholic school, and classes designed to hold 23 maximum, now holding 35 people due to mass immigration; young children are starting to feel segregated due to their race. In the past, people had one thing that united them together, which was religion. And now as religion cannot unite everyone together anymore, and immigrants retaining their culture and not wanting to blend in; the cultural and ethnic differences between people are starting to become apparent.

The school has gone from a place where everyone behaved the same with the same culture, united with the same religion - to a place where races are segregating themselves by keeping their culture not wanting to blend in, behaving differently to the rest of the class, and being on the outskirts for the religious activities.

Before everyone acted the same and were united as one, and now the children are acting differently within their subcultures segregated, being able to see race. It's tragic!
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