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by arel 2201 days ago
Globalisation has many problems but _causes_ racism?

I would argue it's demagogues who take advantage of societal breakdown to inflame inherent racism.

More generally we also have a choice regardless of circumstances to not be racist. I can see how as a species we're not there yet though.

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I believe that argument here is that globalisation causes a bunch of interactions that wouldn't have happened otherwise, that leads to strife ("they took our jobs" is one of the plethora of scenarios) and that leads to racism.