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.
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