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It's more insidious this side of the Atlantic. At least in countries where non-native* people are commonplace anyway.
But right across the board the insidiousness takes the form of not caring rather than being outright hateful. So when, as others mention, far-right, definitely hatefully racist, political candidates start being elected, those who vote for them have carried their lack of caring over.
Those who don't care don't discourage racism so it continues to exist. To flourish. I believe that MLK Jr. said that those people are worse than the hateful - he called them "white moderates" - because they stand by and do nothing when they're greater in number than the actual racists and could actually do something about it.
* Yes, I know "native" is a problematic word, but I don't want to have to unpick that for the sake of this comment.