mattnewport comments on Open Thread: March 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mattnewport 12 March 2010 05:22:36PM 1 point [-]

A real and quiet common phenomenon in which Americans don't give a lick about people who don't live their country (in civilized places this is referred to as racism).

That sounds like nationalism rather than racism to me. The country you live in has only a loose correlation with the colour of your skin. If people favoured countries which had a strong majority of people of a particular ethnicity that might be evidence for racism.

Comment author: Jack 12 March 2010 05:37:46PM 2 points [-]

I was speaking loosely in the parenthetical. Nationalism has a strong tendency to manifest as racism and racism has a similar tendency to manifest as nationalism. They're highly correlated but yes, conceptually distinct.