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How should racism be tackled?

With an experiment showing Jewish people cannot walk around Paris in peace, the issue of anti-Semitism in France is starting to show. How should racism be tackled?
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Canada, being a very multicultural nation, believes education and immersion into foreign cultures are the best methods to curb racism. While we recognise that Canada itself isn't perfect with this matter, it has a strong policy against discrimination and hate crimes. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your perspective, the government cannot alter people's views or attitudes directly, they simply evolve and change with time.

Mexico sees itself as a nation with very little racism. Like the neighbouring Central America, a large percentage (if not majority) of its people are mixed race and most Mexicans have some African, European or Amerindian blood in them. While we understand it's difficult and ethically questionable to create a mixed race population, it does work wonders. Perhaps relationship education depicting primarily mixed race couples is the way to push this? Other than that, it is important to craft the national identity to a mixed, multicultural form.
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Brazil believes in hard-line action against racism. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2014/09/04/blatter-praises-club-ban-in-brazil-after-racism/15067437/
Austria believes the most appropriate manner for the tackling of such would be through a cultural change resulting from educational methods and investment in public safety to assure offenders get rightly punished.

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