Talk:List of race riots

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[edit] Ethnic vs. race

Is an ethnic riot (say, Germans on Irish) a race riot? I don't think so. What if a riot is anti-Catholic, but the vast majority of Catholics in an area are only Irish? Is that a race riot, or a religious riot? I would argue it is not racially motivated. Yet, under the subheading for the United States, there are several riots which are ethnic or religious in nature (not racial). I'd like to see some discussion before removing these, though. - Tim1965 (talk) 15:17, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Definition of "riot"

In the U.K., there is an extremely flexible definition of a riot as involving three or more people. This could lead to excessive listing under the "United Kingdom" section. In the vast majority of the current listed riots, no-one was killed.

I actually added the most recent "riot" to the list, as it seemed no less significant than the Windsor riot or the 2006 one in Dewsbury, but these incidents hardly made the national papers; they were confined to local news. I expect that such things happen in other countries all the time, but would not be classified as a "riot".

I would suggest that there is some sort of definition of a "riot" for this article, as I expect that different countries would give different definitions for the term. Epa101 (talk) 11:16, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Japan missing

Japan is missing from the list, surely the violence against Koreans after the Great Tokyo earthquake should be here. Koreans were blamed for 'poisoning the water' and attacked. 31 March 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.239.196.6 (talk) 15:53, 31 March 2008 (UTC)