Lonewolf Diaries: Europe Waaaaay More Racist Than America
by Steven CrowderYou may be asking… “Really? I know the title is meant to be provocative, but do you REALLY think Europeans are more racist than Americans?”
The correct answer is: Abso-freaking-lutely! Have you ever spent time with French, Irish or Eastern Block folk? The prejudice is often laughably absurd.
Before you go and point the finger, let me state that I am completely aware of the irony in that previous statement (lumping everyone into one category while labeling them “prejudice”). However, since we’re dealing with the mythical “racist redneck” generalization that is frequently tossed at Americans, I’m going to speak of Europe as a whole simply to save time.
Yesterday at my hotel lobby, there were two Russian girls. Upon picking up their car from the valet (who was a black man) they kept asking him if he were the famous Jamie Foxx. Strike that, they TOLD him that he was Jamie Foxx and promptly demanded his picture and autograph.
… The man looked nothing like Jamie Foxx. Floyd Mayweather maybe, but Jamie Foxx he was not. However, to these two Russian babes… The dude was Jamie Foxx.
Now I know what you’re thinking; “Well Steven, that’s just a prejudice bred from ignorance, not one spawned from hatred like that of Americans.” Granted, seeing as there are very few European countries that are as statistically diverse as the United States, you may have a point.
I would encourage you, however, to spend time in Eastern Europe and spend some time with the locals. Notice the segregation, the generally accepted stereotypes and of course, the rampant neo-nazi gangs. Then, saunter on down to the U.K. and observe entire portions of cities that have segregated themselves into entirely Muslim subdivisons. Notice the tension from pure-blooded European nationals and the incredible animosity that divides them.
See, when you follow the “multi-culturalism” philosophy, you unavoidably end up isolating each group of people. When there’s no “melting pot,” there’s no common bond between brethren of different races. It’s a “you’ve your gig going, and I’ve got mine” kind of mentality. That’s no way to live.
Of course, that’s not to say that the U.S.A is without its faults (as Sean Penn will, of course, tell you). From both a historical and pragmatic standpoint, however, Europe is inherently a more racist place. So next time a snooty European calls you a racist, be sure to tell him:
I am rubber, you are glue. What you say bounces off me and sticks to you.
… And then punch him in the racist face.
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The big question here is: What happened to the Russian girls?
Took note that one of the headline articles had Jamie Foxx saying that if it had been his daughter (via Roman Polanski) there'd be no trial because there'd be no Polanski…BRAVA Mr. Foxx – THANK YOU (also took note he was backing down from that statement further into the article…not so brava, Mr. Foxx. Be a man! Stand up!)
Excellent article Steve…
Al Sharton's fantasy land. He could really rake in the Euros.
Nothing compared to South of the Border. Friends of mine had a foreign exchange student guest from Argentina who went absolutely psycho when anyone called her Hispanic. Because by her definition they were accusing her of being part… Indian. She found out one of them was part Cherokee and soon it was time for her to go home a bit early.
My 23 years of military service, including 7 years of it overseas (mostly in Europe), have proved to me that Europe is WAY more racist than America.
It's easy to be accepting of other races/cultures when none of "them" live near you…just ask my Swiss relatives.
I was assigned to a Joint Task Force complete with coalition military officers from various countries. One day the Romanian officer was talking about all the racist in the American south. I let him talk for a bit describing what he thought our southern states were like and how bad it was. After about 20 minutes I then asked him about gypsies…..wow did he let loose and I listened for a while more. Then I simply pointed out to him that the south has its problems but is not nearly as bad as he described but if anyone in America spoke so openly about hating african-americans as he did about gypsies they would be shunned. Then the conversation got very interesting.. in the end he saw my point.
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Read this book: Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, by Christopher Caldwell. What's going on in Europe isn't funny. It's both tragic and terrifying. The UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, and Germany have huge Muslim minorities who have no intention of assimilating. If you think the Taliban's destruction of Afghanistan's Buddhist monuments and museum artifacts is a cultural tragedy wait until you see what will happen to Europe's treasure's once these minorities become majorities.
When you hate your own country, you can't see anything but good in other countries. If you notice that they are racist, you convince yourself that they must have a very good reason for their prejudices. And if you believe that anti-Semitism was only a phenomenon relating to the Nazi party, you know nothing of the history of Europe.
Europeans and American Liberals sounds like two Peas sharing the same Pod.
I spent some time in Spain and was reminded how terrible our country was because of all the white racism against black Americans. When they spoke of their intense hatred for Moroccans I had to laugh.
Quite a few years later the Spanish Olympic team got busted for making Chinese eyes in a photo op. I just shook my head at how confused those poor Spaniards must have been as to what the uproar was all about.
How about Canada? My time in Toronto was a lesson in 'polite racism'. Every white person I knew would go off at the drop of a hat about the Indian/Pakistani community. Locals call Brampton 'Brampistan'. And the black/white population is almost entirely (mostly voluntarily) segregated, with open hostility between the two. Many black Canadians adopt fake Jamaican accents so they can fit in with a community, and stand out from others.
I don't particularly care about foreigners talking crap about America. They're foreigners. They're meaningless. What makes it bad is that so much of our own population believes the worst things about this country – look what's happened to Columbus Day.
Forget Europe, write a story about racist in Latin America and Africa. I've visited and worked in many countries in both continents. Many African countries are very tribal (not to mention corrupt, unjust and indifferent), discrimination exists between ethnic groups and different religious groups. In Latin America, rampant discrimination exists between the native American population, the black minority, foreign born citizens and the Mestizo population. Most power is held by typically white wealthy Latin Americans.
Russian girls are inexpensive to acquire, but expensive to maintain… like Russian cars.
I spent 2 weeks in Italy a few years back. They all loved America, hated Bush, and wanted to let me know just how better they were at everything- politics, lifestyles, racial relations, etc. But on the walk back to the hotel after dinner they couldn't help but point out the "dirty African illegals" who are taking over the streets of Brescia and Milan. So much for being less racist than us back ward Americans. Don't get me started on the fact that they still hold to class distinctions and keeping the lower classes in their place.
Yeah this is something I'm really proud of America for , that we could elect a black president. Europeans like to talk s*** about the US , but you will wait a long time before Germany elects a turkish leader , France an Algerian leader , or England a Pakistani leader. Mexico is very racist too.
Ask any French person about Arabs and then see the racism fly. It's ridiculous.
And to add to the conversation about racism not just being a white person's past time. My Mexican grandmother suspected the Mexican boy next door of stealing anything that went missing. (We're lighter—he's dark—he's an Indian).
I will back that story up. My mother was followed for 3 blocks in Edinborough by a man who wanted to see her "Tail" . This was 1968.
*MissQuinn*
They don't call Canada Canuckistan for nothing!
I never knew there was any doubt that the U.S. was decades, if not centuries, ahead of European racism.
Correct. They also turn into babuska's right around 30. You wake up one morning and say what the hell happened. Spider monkey!
Thank you, my story was around 1978.
That was a wonderful article. It was right on the money! The hypocrisy is laughable. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, or hello pot, meet kettle. I love the end where you just simply state to punch them in the racist face!
Spanish soccer fans throw bananas at black soccer players, the BNP is an operating party in the UK, France has Muslim ghettos that they let go to s**t.
And the libs want us to be like the oh-so-cultured and enlightened Europeans.
My wife grew up in Apartheid South Africa. For all its flaws, it united Blacks against Whites. Now, post-Apartheid, the Zulu hate the Tswana, the Xhosa hate the Ndebele, the Bapedi hate the Swazi, the Anglos hate the Afrikaaners, and the Afrikaaners hate everyone.
U-N-I-T-Y
I thought Stephen's article was really weak and the Jamie Foxx story more an example of foolishness and insularity than prejudice. But the underlying premise is extremely true. A great insight and worth developing in much greater depth.
This is why I was laughing at the Euroweenies bowing before Lord Obama at that bizarre rally in Germany and why I laugh now at the Norsemen who gave him the Nobel Peace Prize. None of these people would even think of voting for the son of African immigrants to head their governments, no way no how.
I know that he was "just kidding" but I have had no use for Jamie Foxx since he made really nasty, mean-spirited comments about Miley Cyrus. According to eonline:
After taking a call on his Sirius satellite radio show The Foxxhole Sunday, the Oscar winner and his zoo crew lashed out at tween dream and reigning box-office champ Miley Cyrus, referring to the 16-year-old as a "little white bitch" and advising her to alternately "do some heroin" and "make a sex tape and grow up."
LOL…..what do ya think?
We've spent a good amount of time in Germany and the U.K. for my husband's job. It always astounded me that the people always wanted to inform me about how things really were in the U.S. – you know, the place I was born and raised. Being a southern girl, I smiled and was polite all the while pointing out the inaccuracies in their arguments. The issue of race was really amazing to me. A bi-racial couple in the U.K. was afraid to visit the southern U.S. A couple of years later they did indeed visit and told me how they were treated better there/here than they've ever been treated back home in England. And don't even get me started on Germany and race. There isn't enough space or time to fully comment. The Germans were always trying to bait me on the issue of American slavery. I always pointed out that a war had been fought to end it. One of these same Germans made a "joke" about having lost a relative at Auschwitz – when he fell out of the guard tower.
We've spent a good amount of time in Germany and the U.K. for my husband's job. It astounded me that the people always wanted to inform me about how things really were in the U.S. – you know, the place I was born and raised. Being a southern girl, I smiled and was polite all the while pointing out the inaccuracies in their arguments. The issue of race was really amazing to me. A bi-racial couple in the U.K. was afraid to visit the southern U.S. A couple of years later they did indeed visit and told me how they were treated better there/here than they've ever been treated back home in England. And don't even get me started on Germany and race. There isn't enough space or time to fully comment. The Germans were always trying to bait me on the issue of American slavery. I always pointed out that a war had been fought to end it. One of these same Germans made a "joke" about having lost a relative at Auschwitz – when he fell out of the guard tower.
Interesting. My last two trips to Paris, I found NO minorities of any kind in the great neighborhoods around the Tower of the Arch. I was told they all live far away, in their own special places. I assume that was French for ghetto but I could be wrong.
I lived in Eastern Europe for a year and a half and they definitely have issues with different races-not just those from different continents, but those who have been part of their communities for centuries, like the Roma (gypsies). Again, not to lump everyone together, but just to back you up
You don't have to leave the country for this to surface. One of my best friends is a died in the wool Democrat, and worships Obama. We agree to disagree. When her house was broken into, she let the *N* word fly incessantly. An *N* broke in, the *N* mailman saw it, but, won't testify, and the *N* cop won't prosecute. I cringed as she spoke, as that word is not in my vocabulary. She seemed to have a lightbulb moment, and realized she was talking to me, and not a fellow racist liberal, changed the topic, then ended the conversation. That was a month ago, haven't talked to her since.
There is no greater mistake you could make than caring what a European thinks about ANYTHING. They are children. They don't think or function like American adults because they are conditioned from birth to remain children.
Another good reason not to care is that they are the provinces, and we are Rome. We kick their ass at everything for a reason.
Europe is the special ed room of the West, with padded corners, hockey helmets and plenty of minders to make sure they don't hurt themselves. The only people in America obsessed with what they think are as retarded as they are.
I lived in Spain for two years. It's a wonderful place, I love it and the people there beyond description. But Spain is one freaking racist country. The only reason that people don't think Europe is racist and that America is is because Europe flat-out refuses to admit that it's racist, while America admits "hey, we've had problems in the past, but we're trying to get over it."
As my preacher used to say, "People are like a pack of ketchup, you don't know what's in them until they're squeezed."
My (years) of experience in South America, Europe and Asia lead me to believe that the US is very likely the *least* racist country in all the world.
As soon as I read your first paragraph I immediately thought to myself: If you think Europeans are racist, you should spend some time with Russians. I've spent two weeks there three different times and, though the people were really friendly and generous, they were racist as hell. Anyone who wasn't an ethnic Russian was a "chorny," which means "black" in Russian but is really the equivalent to the N-word when used the way they use it. As for Europeans, you're right on there. I live there for 9 years, as a kid and later in the service, back in the '60s. All I heard about was Selma and George Wallace, but they practically spit on Turkish immigrant workers.
As well as Russian czars…on second thought, the American czars are really expensive to maintain as well!
Duh, of course they want us to be like Europe. They'd rather not have to look at the dirty people, but still feel like they are for the little people.
banileaus (not sure on the spelling). Yes, they live in ghettos.
That guard tower joke is first rate. I know laughing at it makes me a bad person but that simply is funny.
I know it doesn't mean anything, but the only white-on-black racial violence I've ever witnessed was in Canada, and I'm from metro Detroit. I've never heard someone scream "nigger" with blind hatred in their voice except that time in Windsor. These white people, two guys and a chick started beating the shit out of this drunk black dude who hadn't done anything but be black and on the sidewalk. Never seen race violence in America even once and I sure have spent more time there.
I have traveled the world in both the Military and later working in the ROV industry. The United States Is the least racist nation in the world. The rest of the world, with the possible exception of Autrailia and New Zealand do not understand thier own prejudices. It is because we like the Aussies and Kiwis are a blended society. The Kiwis in New Zealand have come to terms with thier mistreatment of the native people and have embraced a lot of the traditions and culture. Same in Austrailia with the Aborigines. We in the U.S. have also embraced much of the culture and traditions of Native Americans. I am not saying we adopted it but we respect it. Make no mistake it is America that has led the way for the world and not the other way around.
Spot on! In Sweden, in Stockholm, there are huge lego-land like apartment high rises that only Arabs or Muslims lived in. I saw the same thing in Mälmo. Even the graffiti on the walls was segregated! Swedes would so smugly tell me how in America, we have poor and homeless everywhere, but notice not in Sweden? What I did notice were bums (literally hobos, vagabond, drunks, however you want to name them) everywhere in Stockholm, intoxicated and actually urinating all over the place! Plus, I thought gypsies where just in "Hunchback from Notre Dame," but there really are ostracized traveling gypsies in Europe. I know "House" had an episode about gypsies, but having lived in the Midwest, the West, on the East Coast, and now the the South, I have yet to see the black velvet skirted with lacy white tops ostracized groups of gypsies in the U.S. like I saw in Europe. And let's not forget Europeans anti-semitic DNA. Oh, and Europeans universally told me to my face that I was dumb and ignorant because I was American (!), but they sure were fascinated with my American life.
Russian girls are just stupid anyway. But Europe is very, very prejudice. With merit mind you.
hmm, guess no difference between there and here.
You mean the Kenyan in the White House? Yes, the non-natural born citizen, the Kenyan Barak Obama. By the way, trial on BHO's Article 2 ability to hold the office of the presidency coming up in January, the Honorable District Judge David Carter presiding. Orange County, CA.
I have to agree. When traveling overseas I remember almost laughable instances of racial stereotyping, things that would have gotten you thrown out of any decent household in America. But, of course they were quick to point out that they weren't half the racists we Americans were.
How do you know that Russian girls are stupid?
English is not my native language but your spelling and logic tells a lot about your ignorance.
You don't know your own language and you judge people that you know nothing about?
This gives me more reasons to think most (not all)Americans are idiots.
And by the way how soon is your superior country going to collapse?
How soon is America going to collapse?
If you are so much better than the rest why not bring 100 million more africans to America so that you can prove your superiority once and for all?
How long before America collapses and secedes after the next civil war?
I"ve heard the same about Latin America. My dad had a lot of Columbians working for him in the warehouse and there was a definite "caste" system going on, the more Indian blood or black blood you had the worse off you were. Look at Mexican soap operas – those people are mostly of European descent.
As for Africa, I was in Kenya in the summer of 1995 and boy oh boy did the Kenyans like to tell jokes about the Indians (who owned most of the shops)!
No country is immune to bigotry.
Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw:
"Which part of Europe are you from? The part whose a$$ we kicked or the part whose a$$ we saved."
If we ever fall (and I hope it's an "if" and not a "when") they will be crying in their soup, especially when the terrorists start attacking them regularly and perhaps Russia starts rolling again.
They are pantywaists and crybabies. Just like American liberals and that's why they get along so well.
If you are Eurotrash, then why do you guys let those immigrants come in and then make sure they can pretty much never leave their ghetto or become "French" or "Spanish". See the problem is that Europe is about "tribal bovine feces" as I like to call it. You squabble and fight amongst yourselves and you always will.
But in America we encourage people to assimilate. Not to abandon their culture wholesale, but to become American while still having their culture. My family has managed to do it, and I've seen plenty of other families able to do it.
Europeans don't. Unless you are of French heritage you will never be French. Same with the English. Not in America. Even if you are naturalized, you are an American. The only thing we don't like is liberals encouraging illegal immigrants and other immigrants from not assimilating and instead creating what the Euros have – ghettos and separation which just causes problems.
That's why we're better.
BTW, it's in Eurotrash interest that America survives b/c you guys couldn't find your a$$ with 2 hands and a flashlight if the fit ever hits the shan over there in terms of terrorist attacks or God forbid, Russia decides to get jiggy with it.
"How long before America collapses and secedes after the next civil war?" You must be Eurotrash (or a really dumb liberal?). How can America secede from itself, idiot?
An interesting and valid topic, but a weak argument and not enough examples. Why didn't you mention how Spanish soccer fans throw bananas on the field when black players are present? That is the example that always comes to mind when I think of how "enlightened" our Euro cousins are. As for the Russian girls, I see what you were trying to point out (all black folks look alike to Russians). But honestly, how many black people are there in Russia? Perhaps they honestly thought he was Jaime Foxx. I don't see this as racism, maybe ignorance or just not much exposure to seeing black faces, only on film perhaps.
I used to get offended over racism but then reality hit me like a ton of bricks a couple years ago. Frankly it seems like only white Christian straight conservative males are criticized for bigotry while everyone else gets a virtual free pass. Women are allowed to be openly sexist towards men, homosexuals are allowed to hate and discriminate against straight people. brown skinned people are allowed to hate white people or other brown skinned people, everyone is allowed to hate, demonize and persecute Christians but don't you dare say an ill word about barbaric islamic practices or else, liberals ruthlessly attack conservatives and take part in all kinds of extremist activity but when conservatives peacefully organize to protest they'e dangerous neo-Nazis, etc. The election of Obama in the last election was the final straw for me. People were openly and blatantly admitting that they were voting for Obama simply because of his skin color – especially black people. They then went around screaming racial slurs like "HAHA CRACKA MY PRESIDENT IS BLACK" like crazy and of course over 99% of blacks voted for Obama.
Racism and general bigotry are rampant in so called "minority" and " historically oppressed" groups and yet nothing is being done about it. Instead all "anti-bigotry" crusades are targeted at white soccer dads – the majority of whom probably voted for Obama. When Proposition 8 passed in California who did the pro-gay rights activistists target? The white consevative mormons despite the fact that they only make up make 1% or 2% of the population. This is despite the fact that black and hispanic voters overwhelming voted to ban gay marriage who make up a much larger percent of the population. Yet were they ever targeted or criticized by protestors? Of course not. Domestic abuse, sexism, anti-gay bigotry, racism are all extremely rampant in minority communities still to this day in the 21st century because noone thinks to criticize them for it. They're also extremely loyal to their "own kind". So now I've unfortunately come to the point of adopting a similar mindset until they civilize themselves. In upcoming elections I'm ashamed to say that I will only vote for people who look like me. When they change I will too. Until then, identy based politics – I embrace you.
I found this work by a Ralph Peters over the summer on anncoulter.com. I found it interesting. In it, he attests that the imminent muslim majorities in european nations are not a threat considering countries controlled by majority muslim culture are not a match in any respect with western countries. Give it a read.
http://www.securityaffairs.org/issues/2009/16/pet...
Racism, bigotry and segregation is often a two way street. Don't make the mistake of thinking that because muslim immigrants live in the same area that they're being forced to by their bigoted white Christian oppressors. They often choose to do so in order to create mini-sharia states within enemy "infidel" lands. They choose not to leave or to integrate into the local population. You can go to several muslim immigrant communities in Europe where even 2 and 3 generations later they still don't know barely of the local native language. They even run their own sharia courts and create "no go" zones for local police forces. And often they hate people who look or think differently than them and look down on them as sub-human barbarians. Also whites are ethnically cleansed throughout Africa and religious minorities are being ruthlessly persecuted by muslims across the globe yet where's the international outrage over it?
Also I forgot to mention that often minority groups ethnically clease their neighborhoods of "outsiders". Especially muslims. Hispanic illegal aliens are doing that as well to blacks like in California yet nobody says a word about it.
Racism,–noun
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice.
All I know is this:
No one worries about "ethnic cleansing" in the United States.
Mr Crowder is spot on here…
Europe loves to point out our foibles, and racism is one of them. However, any world traveler will tell you that the hypocrisy is complete- and thorough. Armchair liberals all, they don't have to deal with the reality of a racial melting pot such as we have here.
What we actually saw was the so-called elite treating people of color like elevated house pets. We saw better race relations (people actually getting along and working together) in South Africa than we did in Germany- or France. Look at how poorly the French are assimilating the muslims. THAT should give you a clue…
Ignore them. The US is still the best country in the world, and those that think different are either filthy rich and living in Luxemboug- or jealous as hell…
I spent a few years in Europe, "let me be clear" the following statement is true. I was ask by a German one time how the Blacks hid their tails in the daytime. What? said I, "you know their tails come out after midnight."
I don´t think what Sharpton does would work in European legal systems. And most Europeans would simply laugh at him. Unfortunately, America still leads the world in political correctness.
I would like to believe the guy was joking, but I recently heard from a credibly source about a German couple who cut short their trip to Kenya because everyone is black there. Imagine that.
I must say that kind of idiocy is not the norm, in my experience. With many younger Europeans, if you are black and remotely attractive, you get a bonus – you´re considered extra cool. But you still shouldn´t walk alone at night in certain eastern cities.
I'm from Holland, but i don't agree!
I've lived on 3 continents, travelled on four. Spent 12 years overseas. I can say without a shadow of a doubt the U.S. is the least racist country I've ever lived in or visited. The casual and unabashed racism I witnessed against blacks in Europe literally made my jaw drop. In Latin America it's just as bad against "indios." The U.S. is a utopia of racial harmony by comparison, and don't let any ignorant white Liberal tell you otherwise.
Can you define "Hispanic"? It is one of those American-made words that insult everyone and means nothing. It does not exist outside the US, and it is perceived as a racial put-down. Why do you find it racist if anyone tells you that they are not of any imaginary "race" beside their own? As you might know the "race" Hispanic does not exist. I guess you do not see the beam in your own eye…
"I am rubber, you are glue. What you say bounces off me and sticks to you."
Whenever someone said that to me when I was a kid I'd say, "Alright then, you're a great baseball player." Or "All the girls love you." One guy tried to thwart my fiendish plan by saying, "Now I'm glue and your rubber . . ." so I threw some insults at him. Boyhood was fun.
Well, the weight of 3000 years is kind of heavy, wouldn't you say? Specially if it is compounded by being the Great Roman Empire based on slavery. But, do you remember what happened to the Gauls at the hands of Caesar? Yes, 1/3 dead, 1/3 left in nowadays France, and the other 1/3 slaves in Rome. It gives a new meaning to the concept of "white slavery". The Romans, and the new Romans are equal-opportunity slavers, just like us with the "browns" we enslave for agricultural purposes. Oh, the beauties of low labor costs!!!
Frankly,I'm sick and tired of being told to treat all races identically as if there are no group differences in behavior,temperment and criminality.
If one were to live the way these multi-culti fascists wished us to,we would eventually perish at the hands of some inner city animal by allowing ourselves to take unecessary risks.
Do all races commit crimes?,absolutely,but I'll take my chances with an Asian over a Black alone in an elevator any day and anyone who tries to alter or abolish our finely tuned sense of danger and survival is as dangerous to society as any violent criminal!
Remember when Michael Chang won the French Open? The headlines in the French papers were, "A Chink Has Won The French Open!"
I still haven't figured out which Euro country has a black prime minister/president.
Also, there is a video on Pres. Opompous in Russia (by CNBC if you can believe this)…..with the Russian president (whose name I have no idea how to spell). All the Russians standing in the reception line grabbed the hand of the Russian president. to shake….however, as Opompous put his hand out to shake, EVERY SINGLE ONE of the Russians in the reception line ABSOLUTELY REFUSED to shake his hand. Yes…I see that Pres. Opompous' charisma around the world makes him prime presidential material.
I wonder why you're so preoccupied with race. Besides constantly blogging on this topic, you constantly use racial humor in some of your older comedy bits on YouTube. On the video where you're doing impersonations with your brother, you do one of Bill Cosby, where you say," I'm Bill Cosby, and I like pudding and I'm black…."- or something like that. But it's obvious this stuff is at the forefront of your mind.
Makes me wonder what's really going on in that head of yours that causes your obsession with race.
I have never seen more racist folks in my life than in France. As a business traveler I have met 'so called' educated men and women. But, when they (tell) me about my own Nation (and they never been to US) I take insult. They assume that all Southern Americans fly Confederate Battle Flags from their homes and that the poorer ones blacks and whites live in shacks like some unfortunates in Appalachia . They tell me that our Nation is backward and racist and next out of their mouths they are complaining about the Muslims in Paris and elsewhere in France. I refuse to go back –They are so Racist the French
maybe you can help educate us on the proper terms, until then…
When I was in Central America, the Latino people all seemed to want to be American. They didn't care so much about race except that the "blanquitos" were good looking to them. ( Imagine it is part perception of wealth, but also partly the exotic foreigner that Americans percieve sometimes as well)
I never heard terms that were put downs. If some one is old they called them Grandma or grandpa, if someone had a red birth mark they might call him stain or red. It is a different outlook to be sure.
So the offense at "Hispanic" comes as a surprise to me. but then again we were dealing with a mixed ancestry of Whites and the "Indians"
The term "hispanic" depends upon its usage, which might have prompted your question. Today, it is used most commonly to denote a person tracing his/her ancestry, in whole or in part, to Spain or any country controlled by Spain during Spain's colonial expansion.
I lived in Europe for eight years. You are absolutely right. Racism is insitutionalized there. "Tio Tomas" and "Jim Corneille" are alive and well just about everywhere you go across the Eurasian continent. They are laughably oblivious to their hypocrisy when they look down their noses and accuse us of racism. A short history lesson about which Euro countries profited from the slave trade and how long it took us to get rid of it after we became a republic unsettles them long enough to get pissed an an upstart American who presumes to turn the tables and lecture THEM for a change. Mon dieu! The impertenence!
This isnt limited to just the EU. The Asians are horribly racist, too. For example, everyone in Japan is required to register with the census bureau, including all the Korean Japanese, whose descendants were brought over as slaves during the war. When people apply for jobs, the census is checked for heritage and people of Korean descent rarely get the good jobs. The EEOC, among other groups, would have a fit if this took place here in the US.
Ooo… but don't tell the lefties that continue to praise Mandela…. they will tell you wrong… without having been there of course…. though my professor in African History, who was Kenyan himself, said as much as well…. I was really surprised when he didn't laud Mendela's "acheivements"
You will lose your country soon after the amnesty bill and will be ruled by blacks and mestizos.
After a few decades America will look like a giant ghetto, your culture is rap mostly if I remember correctly.
And by the way, do you know any other language other than rapamerican?
Russia is the only hope for Europe, America will be a giant ghetto, you are already ruled by blacks and the fit already hit the fan.
How are you going to pay your debts to China?
Your Swiss relatives sound a lot like the liberals I grew up with in Massachusetts.
Exactly.
race awareness is a result of hundreds of thousands of years of survival instincts and caution.
It isn't groundless or inappropriate,it is based on facts which can be readily acquired by FBI statistics.
I'll keep my "biases" and "discriminatory behavior" for my survival because those multi-culti fascists who eschew this thinking couldn't care less about a victim of crime who was just being politically correct by letting their guard down around a minority.
most of the dialectic concerning the US that comes out of Europe is pretty pathetic. Rooted mostly in fear- fear of US hyperpower- and jealousy because it's WE who save them, not vice versa, they see us in an extremely partisan way. Secretly however, they are painfully aware that as goes the U.S. so go they- which is why they're stumbling all over themselves in a race to the right of the political spectrum as we swing left…
During this past election just after Obama won the presidency, I was flipping around the news channels and landed on BBC. It was a panel of Europeans and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton. Bolton sat there wide-eyed, mouth agape, as the Europeans consistently said that this doesn't mean much because the United States is still a racist country. When it was Bolton's turn to finally speak, he said something like, "We've now elected a black man president, what European country has done that?". The Euros met that with scoffs and guffaws.
I think it is simply a mix of projection and hatred for the big, bad U.S.A.
Years ago, I worked with a Nigerian (in the South) who had friends from Nigeria studying in the USSR. He commented that IF a black man approached a white (Russian) woman in the USSR, he was in SERIOUS trouble. I don't know if that was true or not: I wasn't there; but it is true that he told me same.
the bottom line? How many people of color have ever had any kind of high office in any country in Europe?
Europeans, and much of the rest of the world, is having a giant collective thrill go up their legs over the USA having a black (ok, Halfrican-American) president, but it'll be 500 yrs before they elect one in any of their own countries. You just know some of them are laughing at us behind our backs…
I am from Eastern Europe and hope that will never happen, if you want to be ruled by blacks it is your choice, why should blacks even be in Eastern Europe?
We never went to Africa and owe NOTHING to blacks, ZERO, you should bring 100 million more blacks to America, they are going to enrich your culture because you have none, except rap.
We have our own culture, we don't really need American "culture" aka rap, keep it for yourselves as well as your idiotic movies.
We know who we are, we don't need your help, Russia will help us if we ever need help.
How are you going to pay your debt to China, maybe some land?
Along these same lines — in NC, there is a hot bed of liberal lefties, lots of old hippies driving around with their long gray hair in their Volvos. Voted overwhelmingly for Obama, of course. Have never met a liberal cause they did not embrace wholeheartedly. I spent a weekend there and never, not once, not even in passing, saw a black face.
Yes we are laughing at the fall of America, Obama will bury America, his reign simbolizes the end of America.
SHTF already, better prepare for the collapse, we will enjoy it more than any of your idiotic movies.
Still Rambo may save you.
I agree with all of these comments; but not surprised, that people from European countries have a national pride separate from the immigrants.
In America, we have melted into one identity, but when the dems started calling every one hyphenated this or that, I resented it immensely.
Calling persons of color, African Americans was just plain stupid.
Calling me Italian American was also stupid. my family tree has many old european connections. I'm an American, period.
To be fair to the Commies in France, Muslims don't WANT to assimilate (mostly). They don't see themselves as visitors and newcomers to France, and alot of them are illegal, and don't want to be sent back to whatever -istan they come from. Not that they would be, because that is racist.
Are Europeans really more racist? Quick story: I took a two week Euro-tour with a couple of friends after graduating in 2000. On the first night in London I went downstairs to the hotel's lounge and was sucked into a conversation with an English woman that was a part of another tour group. Within 3 minutes of sitting down I had heard that America was a horrible cess-pool of capitalist excess, rancid culture, and anti-intellectualism. Then, as if that wasn't quite enough, she informed anyone that would listen that America was, "…controlled by the Jews, but, of course, you know that already." I sat there slack jawed for about 5 or so seconds, with my friends staring at me, then stood and walked away. As I was heading towards the elevator I heard her ask my friends, "what's his problem?" They responded, "well, he's Jewish." She said something else as I was walking away, but I had stopped paying attention.
Our tour group was filled with English folks, one Mexican lady, a few Japanese women, a handful of Aussies, a hard working Irish farmer, a South African, an Egyptian student, and 1 New Zealander. Here's what I learned: those that were of working age, and had the opportunity to work for a number of years, had better things to do with their time than rant about minorities, while those that were iffy in the work department had tongues that would not stay in their mouths.
Working tends to focus one's priorities in life, and idleness tends to soften the mind. I have no idea if the 32 year old Irishman harbored any ill will towards blacks, what he'd have probably called Asians, Jews, or the French, because he was too busy enjoying himself on his two week holiday, the first one that he'd had since he'd reached adulthood. The 19 year old Kiwi was of the same age as some of the Aussies and a few of English, but he'd spent the prior year working on a series of Dutch farms, eating, drinking, and sleeping his way through northern Europe, so, again, I have no idea if he disliked anyone. The fact that he lit up like a 1000 watt light bulb when asked to perform the NZ national anthem, and took the time to explain that what he was about to perform was a Maori tribal dance, with a long and proud history, suggests that he, too, had better things to do with his life than worry about those of a different ethnicity.
About the only people in our group that could be considered racist were the academics, the university students that had been infected with the usual leftist clap-trap one picks-up in a University setting, and that weren't smart enough to exercise critical thinking skills before spouting off nonsense in front of those with whom they'd just met for the first time. If western Europeans are more racist than other large groups of people, it's probably because hard work has been denigrated, and the entire culture has been absorbed into the bureaucratic nanny state, turning its various citizens into a largely indolent, self-absorbed, self-important group of effete snobs.
This from the same Foxx who told Mylie Cyrus to go get a social disease. What a hypocrite, but he is just a "comedian."
In high school my white friend of Polish descent (she was first generation American) was told my her mom that she wasn't allowed to date black guys. Not because she herself was racist, but because she was afraid of what racist people might do. So, either her mom really was actually racist, or her Polish mom was used to ppl being extremely racist. Not to talk down Poland or anything (because Poland generally kicks ass) but yeah. Beating ppl up for dating interracially doesn't happen in my 'burb.
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