Russell Kirk. on the subject of international hypocrisy in the field of race relations. Dr. Kirk takes dead aim at the double standard applied to this field when he writes: Nearly all the talk of Africans and Asiatics resenting racial discrimination in America is hypocrisy and nonsense. For nearly every one of the emerging nations or new members of the UN engages in forms of discrimination far more severe than anything encountered in these United States. Dr. Kirk goes on to say that. considering the treatment of nonMoslems in the Middle East. the existence of serfdom and slavery in Abyssinia and other African nations. and the treatment of racial minorities in Indonesia. "it is improbable that the ruling cliques of Asiatic and African states are seriously concerned over the difficulties of some colored Americans in being served at department store lunch counters." When they talk the language of a holierthanthou attitude in racial relationshipsWrites Dr. Kirkit is only because they resent American power--or hope to extract something more in the way of American aid. Dr.
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Generalization that Africans and Asiatics are hypocritical about racial discrimination.