I think it depends a lot on your circle of friends and where and what you do. I have spent a fair amount of time in various Asian countries and a couple of stints in North America / Canada and Europe. My experience is that the Australians I consider friends and family are not as racist as natives of other countries in general attitude and others that I have observed in one off demonstrations of racism were not as vehement or malicious. But that is just my experience.
For example I haven't seen anyone at the cricket have a go at visiting teams and yet that happened at both the recent Sydney and Gabba test matches. I have seen blatant discrimination in the US against those of African and Hispanic descent. The company I was working with/for had a publicised wage policy which actively paid Hispanic people lower than good old white American boys and girls. I honestly thought it was some sort of sick joke that someone had posted in the lunchroom. In Japan I have been sneered at as a fat smelly gaijin and it was only my understanding of what had been said in Japanese that let me see the comments for what they were since there was no outward aggression or nastiness in the voices. I did enjoy responding to them in Japanese but that is another story. I had a Japanese boss who was happy to confide in me that he did not think that white people should mix blood lines with Japanese but it is ok for that to happen with other Asian races like the Koreans or Chinese and it was ok for him to fuck anyone he felt like. Etc. The worst slur I have heard here in the last year was when we were camping. I was cooking a Korean stirfry in camp and a group of two men and women in the adjacent camp made it clear to all around that people camping should only cook traditional Aussie camp meals like steak and sausages. They went so far as to describe it as slopey food (that will give you an idea of the age group). No one, me included, said anything. They were obviously trolling for a fight and no one gave them the pleasure.
Anyway I suspect or probably know that there groups in every country that hold such feelings and thoughts and express them when they think they can get away with it or to be something of a hero to their peers.
Pretty sad really that it still persists.
