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This paper introduces four papers on topics of hate and hate crime in the US context. The paper provides a discussion on US bias, the assumption that education corrects prejudice/support for hate groups/racism, and that scholars are not racist. The paper provides a reflection on implications for study given the tendency to adopt US models and theories that may not suit the Canadian or other environments featuring different histories and cultures.

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"Canada has taken hate crimes seriously in frank awareness of an extremely diverse population that will now and then produce incidents or underground movements that can pertain to conflicts overseas or preserved prejudices of yore. This paper refers mainly to Barbara Perry's scholarship on hate and hate crime in the American environment, including a compilation of papers. (2003) The reader notices an intensely American view of hate and hate crime and, at the heart of Perry's work, an assumption that Education will eradicate hate crime to which some readers will respond with cynicism..."

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