Is it possible to determine the world's most racist countries through a single poll? Not likely. But the World Values Survey set out to do just that by asking citizens of more than 80 different nations to "identify kinds of people they would not want as neighbors," the Washington Post reports. Race was among a list of qualities respondents could choose from to rule out people as neighbors.

"The more frequently that people in a given country say they don't want neighbors from other races, the economists reasoned, the less racially tolerant you could call that society," according to the Post. So which countries topped the list of world's most racist societies? India, Jordan, Bangladesh and Hong Kong turned out to be the least racially tolerant nations on Earth, according to the survey results. Read More...

The problem with white America, according to attorney Dawn Cutaia, is that "we are racist and we don't even know it." Cutaia, who's white herself, says in an opinion piece for the York Daily Record that many whites have the impression that they have to belong to the KKK to be racist. By denying the prevalence of racism, however, whites have done a disservice to America, Cutaia asserts.

"Slavery may have been outlawed 150 years ago, but the Civil Rights Movement was less than 50 years ago," Cutaia points out. "Fifty years ago blacks were still sitting in the back of the bus, drinking out of separate water fountains, being sprayed by fire hoses for peacefully protesting, and living in extreme poverty with substandard education." Read More...

An Arizona high school is in hot water after celebrating "Redneck Day" last week to stir up school spirit before prom. Students at Queen Creek High School in Maricopa County were encouraged to dress up as "rednecks" like the people featured on the reality program "Duck Dynasty," which chronicles a Louisiana family who cashed in on a duck-call hunting product called the Duck Commander.

Queen Creek High has not only faced criticism for indulging racial stereotypes about rural whites but also because a  student showed up to "Redneck Day" adorned in the Confederate Flag, a symbol that many African Americans associate with a pro-slavery agenda. Read More...

At the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday, President Barack Obama did not shy away from the xenophobic and Islamophobic smear campaigns that have dogged him throughout his presidency. Using humor, he took aim at the detractors who have accused him of being a Muslim born outside of the United States. The president also discussed the Republican Party's lackluster attempts to win over racial minority groups.

"These days, I look in the mirror and I have to admit--I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be," Obama joked. Read More...