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This is a good example of what is wrong with the US these days. In Poland people read the story, laughed, and moved on. Fact is, it is extremely improbable to
by jwr 17y ago
This is a good example of what is wrong with the US these days.
In Poland people read the story, laughed, and moved on. Fact is, it is extremely improbable to meet a man in Poland that looks like the middle guy in the photo. There are black people, but they are African and look different.
But in the States people went ballistic over the story. Racism! No cultural diversity! Ethnic cleansing!
I think Americans need to decide whether they want to pay attention to race or not. You can't have it both ways. If race isn't important, laugh at this story and move on. Stop discussing it and making accusations. Also, stop asking for race in polls, stop doing selective university admissions, stop running special programs for ethnic minorities. Just forget about the whole race thing.
If race is important, by all means discuss, but then why pretend everyone is equal?
- fishercs 17y agoWhat the press publishes and how American's really feel are two completely different ideas. don't generalize.
- jwr 17y agoI realize that -- but when writing a short comment I have to generalize. I know this isn't fair to everyone.
- Goladus 17y agoOh please. Yes, some people in the US are hypersensitive to kinds of racism in a manner that tends to be less common in Europe. But Europe has its own issues and claiming it's some example of "what's wrong with the US these days" is just silly. How sensitive are Poles to anti-semitism? There are almost no Jews in Poland because those that survived the Holocaust were driven out (sometimes violently) in the decades following WW2. This was the same time when Blacks in the US fought for and won their civil rights, incidentally. So the US has some thorny problems that aren't fully resolved that Poland doesn't have.
- jwr 17y agoI didn't say Europe doesn't have its own issues -- my point was that the US seems to be trying to ignore race while being obsessed about it. That doesn't work.
- Goladus 17y agoWhen you are observing about 300 million people as a single abstract entity you are almost certain to find contradictory behavior.