Re:On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality
by throwawayjava on Thursday November 16, 2017 @06:19PM
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Well, I think both sides of this conversation talk past each other a bit.
What you're saying is true.
But it's also the case that some those homogenous, snow white communities worry about jihad, even though there aren't any Muslims within a hundred mile radius of their house.
And it's especially true that when these small, homogenous communities diversify -- due to refugee placement or just economic growth and sprawl -- the latent racism becomes not-so-latent.
Re:On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality
by angersock on Thursday November 16, 2017 @06:30PM
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And the point that was originally being made was that it wasn't racism so much as just normal xenophobia, a sense of somebody from an external culture popping in. See also city-slickers, carpetbaggers, etc.
I've lived in the midwest in a small farming town where virtually everyone, mostly only excluding my family, was directly descended from people that moved there from the same small part of what is now the Czech Republic at around the same time. It was incredibly homogeneous culturally.