Some background notes re Kevin Dunn's topic. The occurrence of racism in NSW takes on a distinct regional pattern, according to research conducted within the School of Geography at the University of New South Wales.
Preliminary findings provide only limited evidence of an urban-rural variation in ethnocentrism.
Although respondents from a region demonstrated a specific intolerance, such as concern about immigration levels, this did not translate to high levels of all types of racism. Some implications of these findings are that there may be regionally specific causes of racisms. These fundamental variations should be considered in the formulation of anti-racisms.