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Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop
The validity of those arguments aside (hello, strawman!); those are arguments people who are anti-immigrant would make. A racist, on the topic of immigration, would just want to limit immigration to those of the same race.
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A racist in Europe is anti-immigration, his/her anger is vented towards those of a different colour or culture coming in from the outside and threatening their way of life. Its much rarer to actually find people that just hate another race or culture just for the sake of it (there is normally a trigger factor or reason for their way of thinking). Your definition is actually pigeon-holing anti-immigration and racism into two different categories, whilst not disagreeing with the point you've raised its very much horses for courses. In the USA anti-immigration is very un-American, as the country was built on immigration so the anti-immigration card doesn't carry the same weight that it does in Europe. The American form of racism tends to go for segregation, as in my kind shouldn't live with your kind etc (as seen with segregation in the southern states) So as you see, racism in the USA is somewhat different in practice to that of racism in Europe which is focused around anti-immigration.