With a POD of 1946 is an openly racist major power lasting into the modern day possible. One which openly considers and states that certain races or ethnic groups as biological inferior.
What would be the impact
Best bet is the USA without civil rights...With a POD of 1946 is an openly racist major power lasting into the modern day possible. One which openly considers and states that certain races or ethnic groups as biological inferior.
What would be the impact
Best bet is the USA without civil rights...
Depends what you mean by Law Plenty of southern states had racist laws Heck Miscegnation was illegal in some US states until literally a few years ago. Not that the law could be enforced recently. The black codes and Jim crow were all unconstitutional but they still happened. and were in many cases written into the law. Then there are the ways laws and codes were interpreted, especially in the civil service local government and armed forces/police..Sure but the US Constitution as it is written is race neutral and color blind. I think OP would require something like Nazi Germany to exist as a superpower where racial ideology is incorporated into law.
Japan?With a POD of 1946 is an openly racist major power lasting into the modern day possible. One which openly considers and states that certain races or ethnic groups as biological inferior.
What would be the impact
Depends what you mean by Law Plenty of southern states had racist laws Heck Miscegnation was illegal in some US states until literally a few years ago. Not that the law could be enforced recently.
OTL China?
No but it can be regional power similar to QatarI just came back from Singapore. Can a city state be a major power? Sparta?
My understanding is that non-Han people in China are considered as barbarians or foreign devils so there is a biological aspect to it.The OP specifies that racial groups are "openly consider[ed]...biologically inferior". I don't think racism in China is justified, at least not officially, by biological theories, is it? I get the impression it's more just paternalism, ie. these people aren't ready to govern their own affiars, so they need our help, albeit applied with some pretty brutal violence and repression.
Of course, in that kind of a set-up, a lot of people, including government officials, might privately harbour outright supremacist views.
But it's never been enshrined into law in modern timesMy understanding is that non-Han people in China are considered as barbarians or foreign devils so there is a biological aspect to it.
Explain East Turkistan then, please.China isn't an openly racist state. It's communist, for god's sake, guys. The government's official position is that racism is bad.
Could a Democratic China adopt racial reasons as justification for suppressing the Tibetans and Uyghurs ?China isn't an openly racist state. It's communist, for god's sake, guys. The government's official position is that racism is bad.