Why do people from other countries think it's acceptable to lecture Americans on racism? (employment, revolution)
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Anyone watching American media (CNN, PBS, ABC, etc.) from a foreign country, as I do from Japan, sees multiple stories about racism daily. How could they help but think that America is most racist place on Earth?
That from one of the most ethnocentric county's in the world
You're in France? We keep you safe with our tax dollars so you can tout all your precious social safety nets.
I am an American citizen with residences in the US. I pay a lot in federal income tax to help fund YOUR social benefits too. So… You can put a cork in it.
Last edited by Sydney123; 07-26-2021 at 05:54 PM..
Anytime someone from another country talks about how racist America is, just remind them which direction the immigrants are flowing.
Yeah it is all fake news and a way to put the US down. Last I checked we had a black president when our country is over 72% white. We are the least racist country, but the Democrats sure took us back to the 60s with running their campaign on race. They sure know how to use black folk.
Americanisation! That ole chestnut, let me guess, it's because we all drive cars, watch TV's, eat pizza and wear jeans right! :-D
Weren’t you part of the group that lost the argument on that other thread about hypocrisy in health debates between the US and other countries, so you all just started mindlessly flaming the thread with bland insistences, and kept trying to insist that “British people were skinny” (lol, don’t think anyone believes that) and Americans were fat, or something…and then you kept trying to insist, despite information to the contrary, that British people were more “sporty”?, etc…Lol. You sound like a chauvinist.
If you don’t think the world is culturally Americanized, you’re being dishonest and denying common sense. Dignifying this with a response is stupid enough, it’s just a Brit who can’t admit to American cultural preeminence.
All the music we listen to is culturally American, as are the mainstream fashion conventions of the day, most of the innovation of the day, the film and visual media and art we consume, the economic theory the west cherishes, modern representative democracy, and the form of English that is now the lingua franca. It gives the world the reserve currency it has, and, um, the US invented jeans, the first mass-produced cars, and was instrumental in the invention and popularization of the television and TV. And the whole world eats hamburgers. So I’m confused as to why you think your sentence holds any “gotcha” element.
Funny as we go all over the world putting our two cents in about everything.
The 6th time this thoughtless comment has been made with no evidence to show that there are Americans online criticizing Europe as much as there are Europeans online criticizing the US. Where do we give our thoughts about everything?
You think Europeans insecurely comment on American issues because there was ever a time when Americans popularly consumed European news media and criticized Europe more than the other way around? Really? Get real.
Probably because America feels entitled to sticks their noses in other countries “business” too.
Show me a single American ranting earnestly about a European problem, provoked or otherwise, and I’ll show you 1,000s of posts around Internet going back decades about how America, Americans, and everything American are awful.
I can't help but find the accusation from foreign nationals about America's alleged racism beyond arrogant and deluded.
First, it usually comes from European nations, Canadians, and Australians, who all heavily persecuted the limited amount of racial minorities they actually had in their countries, as well as a number of other foreign peoples outside of their own borders, commandeering slave trades and overseeing bloody imperial rule.
Second, none of these countries are multiracial like the US is! None of these countries ever evolved past a much more strict ethno-racial sense of belonging. Even now, their white majorities are much larger than the US's. Racial minorities simply have not made up a remotely large chunk of these country's populations, quite the opposite of how multiracial the US has been from the beginning. They all love to believe that they are as multiracial and diverse as the US - but they just aren't.
Their notions of multiracialism and equality were all heavily inspired by the American civil rights movement. It was America, in the west, that is the only country that actually has had any successful experience with extensive, long-standing multiracial integration.
But no, they think they know better.
What is up with this?
It's simple, our own president is calling white people in the US, systemically racist and calling them white supremacists. The entire Democratic Party leadership is projecting their own racist views on the entire nation. So I do not fault foreigners for calling a racists, because our disgraceful President is slandering the nation.
Show me a single American ranting earnestly about a European problem, provoked or otherwise, and I’ll show you 1,000s of posts around Internet going back decades about how America, Americans, and everything American are awful.
Refer to previous posts. You’re a xenophile, and you’re gaslighting Americans here. No, we do not stick our noses in other countries business. **** off.
Unbind your panties. I never said that America or Americans were awful. I said that America sticks their noses in other countries business. The implication being… turn about is fair play. Why is ok for America to opine on other countries and then people like you get your panties in a wad when they do it back?
You went off the charts with your remarks and added things I never even said.
White and Black Americans actually have a pretty healthy relationship like a lot of actual relatives do. You know how a lot of us have some relatives that just **** you off and you complain about them but, deep down inside, you love them? That's kind of how it is in the USA. You might be under the impression from the media or even on websites like City Data that White and Black Americans are "at war" with one another but that's not the case.
In reality, there's tons of White and Black friendships, relationships, and partnerships in the U.S. The media just purposefully chooses not to focus on it while focusing on scattered examples of racism and tension.
Other countries generally deal with Black people on a far lesser scale so it's not really comparable. It's always easier to accept people when they have small numbers.
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