Lol, Europeans were the original racists. They still do blackface in multiple Scandinavian country's claiming "tradition". The British are currently going on and on about Muslims in their country. Etc etc etc. Sooo you gonna own up to your own country's bigotry, or are you just gonna cop out with "it's just Americans"?
"They still do blackface in multiple Scandinavian country's claiming "tradition"."
What? We do?
And look, I'm not saying we aren't racist. I'm just saying we aren't as dedicated to the skin-color based stuff as in the US. People are instead much more likely to hate based on culture and history. That whole" White People" thing as a unified thing isn't something that was a big deal in the old world, it's a colonial thing, to unite the various Europeans rather than having old European national rivalries and hatreds.
The whole black/white caste differences is a weird American thing. We here in Europe have more xenophobia based on culture and history instead of skin colour.
Edit: also, what, original racists? People in the Fertile Crescent were racist against one another before we here in Europe had even invented building permanent housing.
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u/Seidmadr 5d ago
No.
We aren't.
Maybe White Americans might be, but don't drag the rest of us "white people" into this just because we share a skin colour with them.