African countries warn citizens of xenophobic attacks in South Africa

A strong argument can be made that your last sentence should read "you guys have more power and social status because you hold yourselves to higher standards".

It’s not like the west invented it. All over the world you have these "us“ vs. "them" mentalities. One country looking down on another. If you want to dig into it, historically ppl fought, defeated and sold their "neighbors", as in neighboring village or tribes etc. Vikings raided through Europe along the rivers and "collected" their "goods" and sold white slaves. African tribes sold other Africans to the best buyers. The Middle East had (has) slaves. It’s everywhere. The "other" is the convenient bad guy or boogeyman you can blame for your problems or exploit for your gain. It’s too easy to weaponize the other for your propaganda. Simple solution have and still do, sell easy and well.

Don't think I said that.

and honestly, its not surprising at all. drawing on the us' experience w segregation and racism, its p clear that it persists *long* after it 'ends'. and the impacts are more than just societal, theyre financial, health, educational, etc. its shit.

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It's called an analogy.

So… is that actually racism? Is it labelled as racism because it involved black people? Is it racist to call racist hate between black peoples just because there’s black people involved? Inception type shit. 

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it is

What if it’s neither? What if it just is what it is. Edit: Listnook did not like this comment 😂

I knew there'd be some self righteous proselytizing in the comments when I posted this. It's funny because of the hypocrisy. A country that's entire success comes from it's oppressors, even South Africa is xenophobic against other African countries despite their decline. And South Africa has a higher crime rate than most of those mentioned but they still use the same xenophobic rhetoric as everyone else. Yes, the world is tragic, but you have to celebrate the little joys. Like the laughs from this headline.

Can correct me if I am wrong but I don't think anyone has been killed in these xenophobic protests.

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I mean it is right, since the reason some people are "surprised" that there are anti immigration/anti minority problems in most countries is because the news doesn't continuously report it. In India's case you get racists salivating over India's primitiveness and how "oppressive" we are simply because of the way the media portrays us. As for Muslims, why does bringing them up always bring a moral highground, do you think? It's because racists use their victim politics to put Hindus to immensely high standards to attack them. In this case everyone knows Muslim majority countries are far more intolerant towards religious minorities, but they know they are portrayed as "global victims" which makes them an easy route to attack Indians with. By the way I wasn't even thinking about Muslims with my username.