why is it that in U.S racism is greater than in U.K?

Question

When i went to London, i saw a diverse community, people didnt care about skin, but here it's not as common to see that, it's usually whites are with whites, blacks are with blacks and so on..

slavery was in u.k too maybe not as great

Answer 1

From what I have seen, there are major problems in the UK with racism
but yes, it isn't as bad as in the US.

I think one difference is that there is simply more room here to separate out
regionally. If we do that, we can convince ourselves that the other races
don't live in our back yard and maybe we can forget about them - until
we surprise ourselves by running into them.

If they are living next door, you never stop realizing that they are there,
that they are people and they have pretty much the same problems as you
do.

That being said, the London subway bombers and the most recent
would-be airway bombers were operating in the UK.

Answer 2

Its mostly about the communities that people choose to live in. London is a big city, so people choose to not care about with who or where they live. In rural towns in the U.S., Caucasians would probably choose in a Caucasian community, and the African Americans would probably prefer an African American community. And what people are making these decisions about where to live? Adults, who were probably born right after slavery was being put to a stop in the U.S., were probably taught by THEIR parents to be prejudice. The children of this generation are being taught to be less racial, although their parents' choices are a huge part of their opinions. I know that many 20-30-year-old's are much less prejudice than my parents are and ever were. As long as children are still being taught in school, through books and the televsion also, that racism and prejudice is wrong, there is still hope for the U.S.

Answer 3

The United States is indeed a diverse nation of almost every thnic and racial type. It is not appropriate to compare typical street scenes in the U.K. with those of the U.S. for many reasons:

1. The populations of the two nations are distributed differently; the United States is, for the most part, an entire continent, while the U.K. is a somewhat small island. This naturally means denser concentrations of people in the U.K.

2. Patterns of settlement and commerce affect population appearances differently.

3. Patterns and sources of migration are entirely different in the two nations.

The United States, apart from the specific influence of importation of slaves and indentured servants (black and Caucasian), grew substantially in population as a result of several major periods of immigration. These tended to originate in different parts of the world, delivering very large numbers of people in relatively homogeneous groups in somewhat short spans of time.

(Americans today erupting in anger of immigation - legal or not, they are really angy at the entire effect of immigration - are behaving exactly as people in the U.S. did during earlier times of large migrant movement to the country.)

One of the consequences of the "waves" of U.S. immigration was a tendency to "clump" peoples of common national, ethnic, or racial origins in chosen areas. These small communities were usually - not always - by choice. People could share the same customs, speak the home tongue, go to nearby stores that sold their favorite foods. Sometimes it was also a kind of segregation by force - no one would sell or rent to the strangers, or perhaps they were chased away. Sometimes it was segregation by economics - New York's Five Points became a hellacious home for the poor Irish who had no where else to go.

Some of the same factors apply to immigrant communities in the U.K. Source of immigration in the U.K., however, is entirely different. The Empire did it - by dying off.

4. Racism is racism - and just as bad in the U.K. as the U.S.

In the U.K., you didn't happen to notice the roving bands of young white toughs, the punks and skinheads, assaulting an old Pakistani man or an acient Chinese woman or a young Black South African - but they roam the nation.

In some sense, racism is worse now in the U.K.

However both nations are struggling to re-define national identity as a result of huge immigrant populations whose presence changes the demographic balance.

Good for you to notice. Good for you to think of asking. There's plenty to think about, eh?

Answer 4

Don't use the UK as an example. Or the EU for that matter!
Are you aware that muslims emigrating to Europe are encouraged to have as many as eight children per family?

Do you know why? Because the muslims want to take over the EU by multiplying at a higher rate than non-muslim.

Who's being racist?

Answer 5

It's the legacy of slavery -- it's been with us since the colonies were formed 300 years ago and sadly change has been slow in coming.

Answer 6

You definately need to get out more, this is one of the most diverse countries in the world

Answer 7

Because colored people in the UK act like decent members of society. They just consider themselves people and dont spend their lives whining about something that happened to their ancestors 150 yrs ago.

Answer 8

More races, more racism. Racism is not only home grown in the US but its also imported by immigrants who bring with them their own biases.

Sometimes wonder is USA isn't a failed experiment in the humanity of mankind.

Answer 9

We in the UK seem to find it easier to simply accept people for who they are.
Our Egos generally tend to be smaller too, I think.
There IS still racism, but it is not well accepted.

:)

Answer 10

Because the UK never had slaves that were freed.