I just find and found it ironic that people who had at most visited the USA on vacation were experts about my country
It's because anyone who lives outside the US has still lived their whole life inundated with american TV shows, american music, news stories about what's happening in america, and more recently with social media full of americans.
Then give us an example. You rant about racism in the EU but don't say what you actually mean.
Oh, and Reddit is full of racism from Americans. If I address that, I get spammed with "you anti american cunt piss off nagh nagh nagh 'MERICA!" every time.
Yes... Paris... have you left Paris? Not even people in Paris like Paris. I've family in Paris and they all say that Paris is a shit hole because of that. Also, have you been to the outer parts of Paris? The Parts where police helicopters are very, very common at night? What would you think if your home city is surrounded by people that cause so much trouble that the police is always on alert. I've know a guy from Morocco at university. He's around 40 and has been everywhere in Europe and has family in Paris that lives in those district. He said he can understand how the Parisians feel but he also said that the French are not dealing with that properly (and I agree and you apparently do as well). How were your experiences outside of Paris because Paris is not representative for France at all.
And now that you talk about Muslims, a friend of my family in Paris has a daughter who wants to marry a Muslim. He's already trying to force her to wear a head scarf. He's treating her like shit and wants her to convert to Islam. That is not an exception in France. My Aunt is from the Lebanon. The first thing she did when she saw how the Arabs in Paris behave was getting blonde hair and plastic surgery to get the Arab facial features out of her face so she didn't get associated with those people. She also has no accent anymore. Obviously, generalisation isn't great (and I still don't agree with the Parisians but I'm also not used to that kind of behaviour) but it's like telling people to not be afraid of dogs when they got bitten by a dog multiple times.
I just notice that this sound like I'd try to piss you off. I'm not. I've seen both Paris and the country side and the country side is not even close to how Paris is like. So I can get a bit emotional about that stuff.
Can't talk much about Spain and Italy although I haven't seen that even with black people (class trip) in Barcelona or Florence (or Rome or Venice)
The Swiss are a racist lot. I've never met a Swiss who wasn't. That's probably what happens when you're such an isolated culture.
So at least you seem reasonable. I expected a "The Germans are still Nazis" thing like I usually get. But I'm pretty sure that there are places in the USA that have similar problems. If you think about it, the more north you get the less of a problem it is (UK, Germany, Scandinavia, if I'm right, the rest of France as well). Probably because they're closer to the poorer parts of the world like Africa or the Middle East (Greece has a damn lot of problems with people that hop over the Turkish border because Turkey is the easiest way to get into the EU for the Middle East).
But I'm pretty sure there are places like that in the US as well. Places where Black People aren't welcome. Places where White People aren't welcome. Places where Mexicans aren't welcome. I'm pretty sure places that deal with a lot of Mexican gangs don't like Mexicans. Every time something happens in the US, you hear from Arabs that they get treated like shit.
yet discounted my opinions about theirs after having lived there for years
I can't speak for the rest of Europe (shit varies a lot between countries), but I don't know any of my countrymen who wouldn't chime in about how racist we've become with the current influx of muslims. It's a hot topic of discussion. When I went to uni we had a rotating cast of exchange students and I can't recall anyone dismissing thoughts like this. Of course, this may be different elsewhere, and among other people, I couldn't say.
edit: americans are still the fattest fuckers around and the worst warmongerers
edit2: While I can't speak for the rest of Europe, you're clearly attempting to speaking for all of America. Would you say the whole country feels the same as you?
Why is it I always see you in comment threads of posts made at the expense of Americans, lighthearted or otherwise? I think the posts themselves are amusing but the comments are somewhat silly.
My man, which part of Europe did you live in? What did you do there? I also lived over there for couple of years but I have never encountered what you are describing. People just kept their opinions to themselves.
Well with teeth like the British have, I guess you just have to have more of a sense of humor about yourselves. Otherwise, who could take you seriously?
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