> You've just proven the racism I am speaking about, and why Slovakia (or Czechia, Poland, etc)
That's not racism. That's being careful, based on past experiences. You are welcome the make improvements to the current experiences, but blaming them for racism will push things exactly the opposite way.
> is really bad place for Arabs.
Do not conflate faith and race either. This area is not suitable for Muslims, and you can thank Ottoman empire for that. See that string of castles in Slovakian mountains? Same story. They have really bad historical experience with them.
But not everything is just bad and people are not keeping in their shells. During 80s, the Eastern bloc countries has sent many thousands of experts to build up the infrastructure in some (at the time friendly) Arab and ME countries. During these years, the relations improved significantly, it was relatively safe for white people to be in these countries.
Now that went down the drain.
> for example dating a Vietnamese is often considered bad, people are still trying to not have children in the same classes as Vietnamese children, Vietnamese medical professionals are avoided, white people are preferred for flat rentals, etc; your ignorance doesn't mean they're not discriminated.
Vietnamese children in the same class are usually the better students in the class; you must mistake that for something else. Vietnamese community has different problem, called "banana" - yellow outside, white inside - i.e. they integrate too well. Just like the Greeks did ;)
> The fact that people here don't even distinguish between Vietnamese and other Asian nationalities speaks for itself too.
It doesn't; one race usually cannot distinguish minor differences on other races. For example, Asians cannot distinguish person of Czech, Italian or Swedish descent, but that is trivial for other whites. Same thing from other side of the table.
> The story of Romani people is also way more complex than you make it out,
I know it is not trivial, and it will stay that way, while there are activists making good money while "they are trying to help". For now, the only improvements were made by those Roma members, who integrated with majority community. Yes, it is difficult for them to sever connections to community that is dragging them down, I know. So it remains resource drain for years to come without any result.
> BTW one would think that the petty crimes the Romani people are associated with would be more acceptable than large scale drug dealing associated with the Vietnamese - but who would look for logic in racism.
Employ the logic then: most people won't be aware of drug dealing, but they will notice very well, when they are on the receiving end of petty crime.
> Arabs are perceived negatively because they're associated with Islam,
True
> which is associated with terrorism
False. Terrorism is West's problem, not East's. For now.
It is more related to historical experiences, when Ottomans tried to conquer them. Another thing is the problems they brought to Western Europe. Establishing no-go zones, enforcing Sharia or having political and social demands that the majority population has to fulfill for them are not acceptable, it is just continuing the expansion using other means. So they get the picture: don't let them in, there won't be any problems then.
> Many Arabs are Christians or atheists but that doesn't stop people from immediately labelling them as terrorists and ostracizing them from services, jobs, flat rentals, etc based on their skin color. Women in a hijab or burka are often attacked, as if every Arab woman had bombs under her clothing.
Not in these countries, though. Despite urban legends and manufactured problems, that activists tried to push to show how these people are "racist".
> should they "start on their end", and why?
How do you think would people in Arabic country react to traditionally dressed christian woman? What would happen to her? (I do have stories...)
So if you want to be treated certain way, make sure do you as you preach. Behave in your country to foreigners the same way, as you want be treated abroad. This is not one-way street.
> Racism is so bad here (CZ, SK, PL, ...) that it has its place in the parliament and senate.
Conflating conservative parties who want to preserve their cultural identity with racism is pushing it too far.
> The biggest problem are not the rural-living low income racists, but people like you who spread (normalizing it) how they're so tolerant and thus not racist
I see liberal youngster with purely academic knowledge, without much practical experience there. No, your passive-aggresive blaming won't get you far.
> More generally, as long as people think about individuals in terms of groups connected by bodily features, place of birth, etc there will be a problem
You may want to deny it, but shared culture does have an impact on behavior. For example, Arabs are one of these cultures, who highly values theirs. It is their right to do so, and I don't see any reason why other cultures should be denied the same. We want to treat them equally, right?
> not just racism but nationalism too (please tell me how Ukrainians are good only for manual labor...).
Ukrainians have it very difficult in general, not just in CZ/SK/PL. They come to EU countries, because they have more opportunities there than in their home country. So do Serbs. (For other readers: these two nationalities are abused by multinationals, who bus them into manufacturing plants located in eastern-EU countries. They get the advantage of cheap workforce from poor countries, while having the plants inside EU jurisdiction). I don't see what the CZ/SK/PL citizens have to do with this, except being pissed of by having their wages pushed down even further by wage dumping.
> I am white, the only thing to do on my end is reducing the racist attitude of other white people.
I suggest spending some time in Asia, Middle East/Magreb and Latin America to be able to compare and contrast how racist the white people in CZ/SK/PL really are.