The thing is that what gets discussed today in the States then gets discussed tomorrow in Western Europe and the day after tomorrow further East (so, also in my country, Romania). To say nothing of the many US companies that have offices open here in Eastern Europe and whose HR policies mimick almost completely those from the US headquarters.

Don’t get me wrong, I wish you were 100% right on this, i.e. that US racial things should only be discussed by those directly involved with the same happening in the Romanian case (from where I’m from), but unfortunately that is not the case.