8. Ukraine
White population: around 44 million
Ukraine, like neighboring Poland, is pretty much white country. According to CIA Factbook, Ukraine population includes 77.8 percents of nationals, 17.3 percent of Russians, 0.6 percent of Belarusian, 0.5 percent of Moldovans….
In last two years, following a succession of Crimea, Russians, as a largest minority group in the country, have experienced increased discrimination. Besides Russians, other groups, especially non-whites, don’t always feel welcome in the country. In Washington Post article with revealing title “A Cop in Ukraine said he was detaining me because I was black. I appreciated it.”, Terrell Jermaine Starr, African American, who arrived in Ukraine as Fulbright scholar, talks about his encounter with Ukraine’s blunt and harsh racism. Racial intolerance, which range from not allowing Sierra Leone woman with a child to enter the bus to deadly violent attacks on Jordan students, resembles worst Nazi-like racism.
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