>Like in the UK the Prime Minister, Home Secretary, and Scottish First Minister are all from immigrant family backgrounds. The UK is also closer to having an o

>Like in the UK the Prime Minister, Home Secretary, and Scottish First Minister are all from immigrant family backgrounds. The UK is also closer to having an open conversation around race than many other European countries, and tends to be more directly influenced by US political movements. As the sibling comment says, it is extraordinary how many Europeans seem to think that racism is a problem that exists only in the USA. Gary Younge wrote an excellent article touching on this topic in the Guardian recently. Key point: >This ability to unsee what is before our eyes is not confined to the past. The latter-day version of this selective myopia is the repeated insistence that Britain must not “import American race politics” – as if racism is an artisanal product of the US, like French champagne or Italian parmigiano reggiano. When protests erupted on the streets of British cities in 2020 under the banner of Black Lives Matter, many commentators smugly declared that this was an imitation of American fashions – even as the statue of a very English slave trader, Edward Colston, was dumped into Bristol’s harbour. https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2023/mar/29/lest-we-remember-how-britain-buried-its-history-of-slavery https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2023/mar/29/...