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Originally Posted by cmdunn1972
The couple is from the Netherlands, which doesn't have a lot of racial diversity.
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It's also important to point out that racial diversity is very much a western thing. Once you get away from the areas near the bases where I live, you will not see many people of African or Asian or native American descent.
It's even more important to understand that it's not a matter so much of other countries being closed to other ethnic groups so much as other ethnic groups (for the most part) are happy enough to stay in their own home lands. It seems many European countries, while having less diversity, have far less problems with racism when there is a minority present.
The awful fact is that western diversity is rooted in people who were either being run out of their own home countries or taken unwillingly from them. Then, once everyone ended up in the same area somewhat artificially, they had to learn to get along. I'd personally like to think that we have made good steps in that direction, but we shouldn't impose western mindsets on other countries.