I think something that Americans, and some British people (usually racists or people who are performatively anti-racist) miss is that the vast majority of us (e

I think something that Americans, and some British people (usually racists or people who are performatively anti-racist) miss is that the vast majority of us (ethnic minority British people) are well integrated. its easy to focus on the people who are not integrated and take them as the norm. We do not have the history that people such as black Americans do. Our ancestors came here voluntarily, never faced lynch mobs or segregation or bans on marrying someone of a different race. It shows in a lot of things. For example, we usually speak the same dialect of English as people from the same background and region - it might be PR or Brummie, but there is nothing that corresponds to Africa American vernacular (some communities do speak an ancestral dialect, of course, but that is different tends to die out over a few generations). As you pointed out ,someone's race is less important in politics (having a non-white PM was nothing like as revolutionary here as having a non-white president in the US).