My assertion is based on purely anecdotal evidence of my own experience and what I hear from other non-gentile visitors to or inhabitants of Europe. One of my former students, a Moroccan, who lives in Germany told me that he's learned to speak english when meeting people in order to get treated as an American instead of a Turk. I've repeated this story to a number of white european liberals and always get the same hostile response. None of the jews/arabs/turks/africans in Europe I've told this story to finds it at all surprising.
I also base it on the very angry defensive response here to criticism of Jostien Garder's anti-semitic op-ed.
Wikipedia. Are we conducting a class on the English language here?
Just to forestall what I guess, perhaps incorrectly, as the probable next move in this gambit, belief or non-belief is not material.
I'm an atheist - am I Gentile (non-Jew) or non-Gentile (non-Christian)? Or am I Christian because I was baptised? A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous
The Moroccan fellow I was discussing was neither white nor european.
But "gentile" is, of course, a context dependent word. Mormons use it for non-mormons. I don't think the way "gentile" is used historically in discussing European/Jewish/Christian divisions would include Morrocans, but ...
My point was that people in the normative/dominant cultural group don't see the same world that people in other groups see.
I was reacting to what I hear from other non-gentile visitors to or inhabitants of Europe.
To be honest, the expression "non-gentile" sounds to me like "non-barbarian" or "non-gaijin".
No debate from me there. A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous
Everyone is someone else's foreigner.
"Most white gentile europeans agree that there is no more racism and anti-semitism in Europe."
