When attempting to rank or evaluate something or someone, context is everything. For instance, if we want to proclaim that a professional baseball player is an exceptional first baseman, we must first establish context. Are we comparing that player only to other first baseman playing today, in which case the bar is lower than it might otherwise be? Or are we comparing him to every first baseman who has ever played the game, in which case the great Lou Gehrig is indisputably the gold standard?
Context is critical.
So too does context affect one’s effort in trying to establish the qualifications of a country. Is France cold? Compared to Thailand, France is very cold. Compared to Iceland? Not so much.
Therefore, when the question of whether America is a ‘racist’ country comes up – and this debate comes up far too often, by the way – the most prudent approach is to […]
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