The only countries I can think of that aern't racist would be Canada, UK, Japan and Greece. Never would have thought Sweden was racist, I would have thought they would have been the more open minded people in comparison to other parts of Europe.

p.s. Why are the Japanese so friendly all the time? It get's creepy sometimes.

Japan can be quite racist (though not always). My Japanese professor is an expatriate, and i occasionally hear her lament the influx of Chinese and Koreans into the country (she claims their presence makes Tokyo unsafe).

Greece i imagine would be rather xenophobic too (especially about the Slavs) but i'm not sure.

Which is funny because the people living in Greece right now have nothing in common with the Greeks of old. Somewhere during the Macedonian, then Roman, then Byzantine, then Turkish rule they lost that claim. If anything, southern Italians have more in common than the half turks in Greece currently.

I mean I can understand limited new immigration to Sweden but these were Swedish Jews. In the end this is just the politics of small countries combined with open borders policies - in the end ppl have buyer's remorse.

I think there is racism in every country, depending against who.

Japan? Are you kidding me? In Japan they have special apartments for  foreigners... and many landlords don't want to rent apartments to foreigners. There's tons of discrimination in Japan.

What you call friendliness is actually a very strict social etiquette.

I see them as generally the same thing.  The ignorance you speak of is just a biproduct of racism.  The smoke of fire.  Such "mistakes" happen much more in countries that generally hold more racists.

Gypsies once kidnapped my grandpa...or maybe it was my great grandpa.

They returned him like a day or so later... was weird.

Kinda outta left field, but anyone know what "race" armenians are considered.

Europe indeed has some problems with immigration but I wouldn't call European nations "racist" because of a minority of right-wing activists. Just some weeks ago there was a big Nazi demonstration in Dresden (Germany) with Nationalists from several European countries "remembering" the attack of the allied powers against Dresden during the second world war. I'm sure some Europeans have read about it. What a lot of people I asked didn't know was that even more people demonstrated against racism at the same day and the Nazi's didn't get a chance to demonstrate because of that.

The main point here is that a lot of people are scared of muslim immigrants because they are "different" (which is why Switzerland banned minarets, although a lot of people regret that now). On the other hand there are a lot of very well integrated and even famous muslim. The leader of the Green Part in Germany, Cem Özdemir, is from Turkey for instance. And the Greens are currently polling above 15% which is insanley high for them so people don't seem to mind about that.

Maybe it has to do with Europeans still being in the process of accepting their "European identity" (I'm talking about mainland-Europe here. I know the UK is some sort of special case ) before they can adapt to even more change? You know this process still needs some time when you see left-wing voters being sceptical of more european integration while the right-wing extremists unite against inmmigration from muslim countries. We are pretty much in some sort of transition right now.

About two-thirds (very rough estimate) are "white" while the rest look almost indistinguishable from, say, Iranians. At least to outsiders.