As another European who lives in Asia, I don't understand this European love of blanket ranting against Americans. Yes, the US still has a racism problem. In fact, every country in the world has racism problems.
That doesn't make the topic of who can get elected irrelevant. Can you imagine ANY kind of foreigner getting elected into government in China? Or even in, say, Germany? These are different degrees of cultural openness.
Obama was/is african-american, not a foreigner
I'm curious how universal this is. The fascist regimes of the mid 20th century all demonized a large segment of their own population and put them outside the protection of the state, or rather, targeted them as enemies of the state and the "true" citizens. How does Marine Le Pen speak of the left-leaning French? Japan is a particularly ethnically uniform nation. Does the Right in Japan regard the Left as non-Japanese? If so, does the Left reciprocate, or does it regard the Right as Japanese but wrong?
> Who cares? Is this an American thing to always brag something about race, or how much "non-racist we are"?
It matters because it's unprecedented in the United States, which is far more diverse than any other country in the world by a long shot. Think about all the racial tension that exists in most European countries from some sizable "outsider" populations. Roma in most of Europe. Polish in England. Turks in Germany. The United States completely eclipses all of that because we have accept more refugees and immigration than any other country in the world and we have the largest immigrant population in the world.
> Nobody gives a sh* here.
Probably not if you are part of the roughly 90 percent of people in any given state in Europe that happen to be the right race.
> In my opinion, US is still racist AF.
Yes, which is why seeing a black president be elected is remarkable.
> And it can mean racist against all kinds of people, even against white people. But you don't want to hear that ;-P ;-P
Racism is a shared tradition amongst all people and ironically it does not discriminate.
Here’s one fundamental problems with many Americans: they know nothing about outside world.
Literally half of all the worlds countries is more diverse.
I'd urge you to pause your ignorant, inflammatory, and xenophobic takes for a moment to reflect on whether or not they're even true.
We have the largest population of immigrants in the world [4] and the nation is comprised almost entirely of non-indigenous people. The fact that the US is incredibly diverse is not controversial to anyone that is even modestly informed.
[1] https://www.mofa.go.kr/www/wpge/m_21509/contents.do
[2] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2000/dec/phc-t-43.html
[3] https://archive.ph/20200212212204/http://factfinder.census.g...
[4] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/20/key-finding...
Until you realize that metric would only be meaningful per capita, which again proves you’re talking rubbish:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/immigrati...
Why would this metric only be meaningful per capita?
Sure, you have no racial problems of your own to deal with... (http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/harvard-survey-over-15-yea...) There is an old saying about people in glass houses that you may want to consider. You may also wish to stop kidding yourself when raising the question of whether or not you are on your knees servicing American interests; if you did not see yourself in such a position then it would probably be unnecessary for you to act with such childish hostility.
I think OP is aware of this? The US is better to be beholden to than Russia or China, but ideally the EU would be the union it claims to be instead of a bunch of bickering city-states.
I resent that too. I think the US is objectively a worse country, but somehow, everything useful to the world happens there. I’m just sad that such an exploitative way of living is what apparently drives progress.
This is like the pot calling the kettle black.
Europe raped the rest of the world for nearly 500 years: the British Raj, the Belgian Congo, the Opium wars, the race for Africa, Apartheid are but a few examples.
Europe created modern chatel slavery.
Europe started the WWI and WWII.
Europe birthed Nazism and Communism.
Many of the problems we currently face are the result of European meddling: from the Sykes-Picot agreement, to Iran, to African civil wars.
The US has been a far more benign superpower than (collectively) Europe ever was.
UPDATE:
Even racism (scientific racism) is a European invention, mainly to justify why it was good for Europeans to subjugate the rest of the world.
If the US had been a super power in the 17th or 18th century you can be certain they would have colonized other countries as well.
Regarding WWI and WWII, Europe has never had the homogeneous culture of big states like the US. Again, wars have been the norm for most of humanity. The current peaceful era is really an anomaly.
It is like the bully who broke both legs and then goes around on crutches and tells everyone how great he is in that he doesn’t beat people up anymore.
Do you think the UK would have given up India if it were not for the devastation of two world wars?
Look at how France fought to keep its colonies in Algeria and Vietnam?
Look at how Germany bullies countries like Greece and Italy and cozies (up until very recently) to Putin.