Is it true that people are less racist in europe?

Question

are there a lot of people who are racist there like in america, or is it a lot less?

Just curious.

Would you say its because all of the nations that are so close together there

or that with americas history makes more people racist in america?

or a combination of both?

Okay, i'm just asking your opinion. and I never said there wasen't racism anywhere else. Maybe you should just anwser the question instead of flipping out over something that somebody DIDN'T say.

Answer 1

I don't think it's true. Racism in Europe may take a different form, but those Muslim youth in the Paris suburbs etc., don't seem very well accepted to me. The USA originated the melting-pot, and a has a long history of immigration so that helps mitigate racism. However, Europe has pre-determined cultures that minorities have to adjust to or be marginalized. I'm not trying to minimize racism in the USA, just pointing out that Europe has some liabilities when it comes to accepting newcomers.

Answer 2

I can tell you now that I've lived in both places.
Most Europeans haven't been exposed to black culture much-the rapes, the drug-dealing, the screaming, the robberies, the 15kids a family, when they can't feed even one...
Before coming to the US I had never seen a black person, why would I bother to hate them?I couldn't care less.
Yes, we Europeans are not "racist" until we come to the US and realize why racism exists: because all races are on different stages of evolution. Let's face it: the ONLY wealthy African country is still run by the Dutch. The poverty in the rest is unimaginable by modern standards.
"Racism" is just a politically correct nonsense term used to to sweep the real problems safely under the rug.
We are all perceived by the way we look, that's a fact. Should it be like this is an entirely different issue. Race and culture are always intertwined, no matter how you look at it.
Racism is not necesseraly a negative thing, but violence and segregation are. And should I tell you who's more violent? Govmt stats show there are 5 TIMES more black inmates than whites.
Another reason for the whites not to like the blacks.
But in Europe we have no blacks. Not in my country at least. So noone has a reason to be called a "racist".
In the end, depending on your actions, you will be welcome anywhere regardless of your skin color.

Answer 3

I think it is different here in Europe. First let me say that I am a Canadian whose father is American and I am living in Denmark and I have also lived in Germany. I think that Europeans aren't blantently racist like my Grandmother from Missouri. I won't even call it racist for the most part as much as it is protective of their own culture and life style. Denmark gets called racist a lot because of their immigration policies. Having grown up in Canada I kind of understand. In Canada we had all these people immigrating from other countries who would come and want to change things like prayer in schools and even want to change our national anthem because it has the word God in it. I know that it isn't all immigrates, just a few idiots but people feel like their cultural identy is being destroyed.

Okay sorry that was a tangent. I think that in Europe that are less concerned with skin colour and more concerned with culture. Although I did see an Irish girl in London call a Black bartended the N-word, which I had never heard from anyone other then my Grandmother from Missouri. The bartender told me that it happened all the time. I was shocked.

Answer 4

Racism exists anywhere that varied cultures co-exist.

You must first realize that "racism" is not just the black/white/hispanic dynamic that most people in the U.S. recognize. South Asians in Britain are a growing minority, as are muslims in France and Spain. You may have read that anti-semitism and neo-nazism is on the rise in central Europe. Let's not forget the "ethnic cleansing" in the Balkans. For that matter, the long-standing strife between the English and Irish could be defined as a "racial issue."

Keep in mind also that, in the U.S., no particular race or cultural tradition owns the concept of "citizenship." In Europe, race and culture are inseparable from nationality. Nations there are homogeneous, and as such are prone to be less aware of their own latent racism.

Answer 5

I just think it's different wherever you go. I live in ultra-liberal, "tolerant" Seattle, yet with rare exceptions, you find "tolerant, liberal" white people making sure they among other white people, far away from ethnically mixed areas. In the American South people of different races live in closer proximity to each other, but you only need to think of the James Bird case to be reminded how close to the surface racism still is.

I think that as Europe starts to digest its own imperialist past--and by that I mean people from its former colonies coming to live and work there--you see racism become more and more overt. France and Italy have already mostly abandoned their Enlightenment ideals--remember the backlash in public opinion after the riots in Paris over the summer. My African-American friend was refused entry to some shops in Siena for no reason other than his skin color. And even the Scandinavian countries, long held up as a model of tolerance and civil liberties, are starting to be tested for the first time by tensions that follow in the wake of immigration. (It's easy to be "tolerant" as long as you don't have to tolerate anything.)

I think racism is kind of hard-wired into all human beings. Which is all the more reason that we must all take the responsibility to fight against it! Nevertheless, wherever you go in the world, you'll find it--it just may be expressed in different ways.

Answer 6

You losers obviously haven't traveled to Europe, and have been watching waaaaay too much liberal TV.

1. America isn't filled with racism. Unless, of course, you want to include the blacks insulting the white people. Such as this:

“Kill the white people; we gonna make them hurt; kill the white people; but buy my record first; ha, ha, ha”

“Kill d’White People”; Apache, Apache Ain’t ****, 1993, Tommy Boy Music, Time Warner, USA.


2. Europe has a lot of racism. The English make fun of the Spanish routinely. Everyone makes fun of France. And other countries are extreme racists. China, for example, hates all other races. They even hate other Chinese.

So before you go popping off and accusing America of being "racist", pull your heads out of your liberal backsides and go visit the rest of the world. You'll come back to America and kiss the ground you walk on.

Answer 7

i d say once a racist always a racist. things you are you carry wherever you live. however in europe can be that racist but then again it depends on the country.there is really bad racism and there is just "over-rated pride" of ones own country over the rest ones

Answer 8

Yes, yes, yes, yes, they are following the laws strictly, at the same time the inner minds of some pople are descriminating (am I correct, EU,s?), I thank all europeans supporting other nationals and races.

Answer 9

Unfortunately because of America and our history, racism is EVERYWHERE.

Answer 10

Absolutely--yes, Europeans have less preferences. U.S. is bad.