- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
I am not claiming that France is the only country to have such problems (but it happens to be an example I know of), nor that the problems are nearly as virulent as they are across the Pond. But I think that a case can be made that they exist.
Of course, in general your point still stands: European countries generally have a much more complex history of interaction with foreign ethnic groups, which of course means that the history of European racism is rather more complicated than the American ditto.
I'm not excusing or minimising European racism: I'm saying that viewing it through the same lens as US anti-black racism is inappropriate and unhelpful.
In the meantime many people are here and can stay here and can get the citizenship and often don't want it, when they have to give up their old citizenship for that.
Currently about 20% of the population has "migration background". But in most cities more than 40% of poeple under 40 have. The oldest living generation has nearly none. So what's your problem? Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den MenschenVolker Pispers
