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Discussion: Why is the USA more racially sensitive than Europe?
Member Since: 11/10/2011
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Originally posted by Allstar
No matter West- or East-Europe. Every part of it is still racist. It exists.
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Well, technically everywhere in the world is racist and has been for all of human history and will be for the rest of eternity and there's nothing we can do about it. But I think there's probably less racism in Europe than in the US. The US seems very divided, and some of the things that I see on FOX News for example would never be allowed on TV in my country.
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Member Since: 4/25/2011
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USA is sensitive in any aspect of life period.
Not just race.
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Member Since: 3/27/2012
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Because we enslaved an entire race of people for 200 years?
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Member Since: 12/3/2010
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Well to the level that Jim Crow permeated society for nearly 100 years speaks volumes. Segregation and discrimination was a legal institution, and then widely accepted everywhere else they weren't official. When you have laws like:
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Alabama
Nurses: No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed. Alabama
Buses: All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races. Alabama
Railroads: The conductor of each passenger train is authorized and required to assign each passenger to the car or the division of the car, when it is divided by a partition, designated for the race to which such passenger belongs. Alabama
Restaurants: It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room, unless such white and colored persons are effectually separated by a solid partition extending from the floor upward to a distance of seven feet or higher, and unless a separate entrance from the street is provided for each compartment. Alabama
Pool and Billiard Rooms: It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other at any game of pool or billiards. Alabama
Toilet Facilities, Male: Every employer of white or negro males shall provide for such white or negro males reasonably accessible and separate toilet facilities. Alabama
Arizona
Intermarriage: The marriage of a person of Caucasian blood with a Negro, Mongolian, Malay, or Hindu shall be null and void. Arizona
Florida
Intermarriage: All marriages between a white person and a negro, or between a white person and a person of negro descent to the fourth generation inclusive, are hereby forever prohibited. Florida
Cohabitation: Any negro man and white woman, or any white man and negro woman, who are not married to each other, who shall habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room shall each be punished by imprisonment not exceeding twelve (12) months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred ($500.00) dollars. Florida
Education: The schools for white children and the schools for negro children shall be conducted separately. Florida
Juvenile Delinquents: There shall be separate buildings, not nearer than one fourth mile to each other, one for white boys and one for negro boys. White boys and negro boys shall not, in any manner, be associated together or worked together. Florida
Georgia
Mental Hospitals: The Board of Control shall see that proper and distinct apartments are arranged for said patients, so that in no case shall Negroes and white persons be together. Georgia
Intermarriage: It shall be unlawful for a white person to marry anyone except a white person. Any marriage in violation of this section shall be void. Georgia
Barbers: No colored barber shall serve as a barber [to] white women or girls. Georgia
Burial: The officer in charge shall not bury, or allow to be buried, any colored persons upon ground set apart or used for the burial of white persons. Georgia
Restaurants: All persons licensed to conduct a restaurant, shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room or serve the two races anywhere under the same license. Georgia
Amateur Baseball: It shall be unlawful for any amateur white baseball team to play baseball on any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of a playground devoted to the Negro race, and it shall be unlawful for any amateur colored baseball team to play baseball in any vacant lot or baseball diamond within two blocks of any playground devoted to the white race. Georgia
Parks: It shall be unlawful for colored people to frequent any park owned or maintained by the city for the benefit, use and enjoyment of white persons...and unlawful for any white person to frequent any park owned or maintained by the city for the use and benefit of colored persons. Georgia
Wine and Beer: All persons licensed to conduct the business of selling beer or wine...shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room at any time. Georgia
Kentucky
Reform Schools: The children of white and colored races committed to the houses of reform shall be kept entirely separate from each other. Kentucky
Louisiana
Circus Tickets: All circuses, shows, and tent exhibitions, to which the attendance of...more than one race is invited or expected to attend shall provide for the convenience of its patrons not less than two ticket offices with individual ticket sellers, and not less than two entrances to the said performance, with individual ticket takers and receivers, and in the case of outside or tent performances, the said ticket offices shall not be less than twenty-five (25) feet apart. Louisiana
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It's ridiculous. And mind the last of these were repealed in 1965, less than 50 years go.
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Member Since: 2/1/2012
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Originally posted by KillingYourCareer
Europe's mentality is more open and there have never been episodes of racism like in the US. Simple as that.
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So, The Holocaust never existed?
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Member Since: 12/1/2010
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Racial tension in America is logical and stems from the fact that America enslaved a minority group and then freed them only to serve them mass inequality. Today, some American white people are oblivious to the negative long term effects racism had on American blacks. While most can admit that white people of today had no role in shaping racism of the past, their inability to see how the past has negatively influenced black people contributes to what people call white privilege. As with all conflict, neither side can agree on what is racism and what isn't - with the majority concluding that racism doesn't really exist anymore because of Oprah and Obama.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by Dawn
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It's actually true. In the US, according to surveys, 30% of the religious population believes in creationism, and there's much more homophobia than in Italy which is one of the most religious European countries. I went to the US and I found its mentality generally more closed. You should know this, you live in Texas.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by Yarotska
So, The Holocaust never existed?
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That's a leader ORDERING to extinguish a race, which is completely different, since most of the German population either had nothing against them or were brainwashed. Things like racism and homophobia in Europe are much lower compared to the US, that's why we're less sensitive.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by Quietly Trek
Europe is more racist, lol. There's xenophobia present in literally every country in Europe.
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What you said is stupid. Xenophobia is a fear you can't control. It's different from racism.
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Member Since: 8/31/2012
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Originally posted by KillingYourCareer
That's a leader ORDERING to extinguish a race, which is completely different, since most of the German population either had nothing against them or were brainwashed. Things like racism and homophobia in Europe are much lower compared to the US, that's why we're less sensitive.
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Oh please.like a leader could've gotten that far alone
Hitler had the plans,but the people followed them and even cheered him on in many cases.
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Member Since: 4/16/2011
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After World War II a lot of treaties and agreements have been made in favor of the minorities in Europe, whereas the US still knew strong racial segregation until the 60's.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
Oh please.like a leader could've gotten that far alone
Hitler had the plans,but the people followed them and even cheered him on in many cases.
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Yeah but even if what you were saying was true, you'd be talking about 70 years ago's reality.
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Member Since: 5/4/2012
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Honestly Europe is a lot more lax about everything.
Italy be on some BS sometimes though. Throwing bananas at black football players
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Member Since: 3/8/2012
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Because America is a nation of immigrants with a racist history towards minorities
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by BabyCantYouSee
Because Europe is more racist than the USA.
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Are you serious?
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Member Since: 9/4/2012
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Originally posted by KillingYourCareer
What you said is stupid. Xenophobia is a fear you can't control. It's different from racism.
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You have no reason to fear entire groups of people. Xenophobia stems from racism; it absolutely does in Europe.
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Member Since: 3/1/2014
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bc Europeans like to pretend racism doesnt exist. see this thread for examples
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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Member Since: 5/18/2012
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Originally posted by Iman
bc Europeans like to pretend racism doesnt exist. see this thread for examples
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Exactly. This seems to be an issue with Europeans in general they think things are all roses and rainbows.
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Member Since: 6/3/2011
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Not Americans trying to come for Europeans lol. At least our black compatriots don't need to wear bulletproof vests just in case police might feel like shooting them for no reason.
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