Quote: (12-05-2011 01:43 PM)Phil Asheo Wrote:
+1, I agree, any normal non racist white America is more open minded than a european imo. Even when in europe it is far more common for an white american to start a conversation with me than a european and I'm minority. In fact I can only think of a few european girls who ever approached me but it was because they knew me or recognized me from somewhere (or we had an extend friend network) and they liked me. Whereas I have had complete random americans abroad approach me, in fact i'll never forget this one hot blonde from Montana in Italy who came up to me, em, em em, and there all white in Montana, so I don't think Americans can be any more prejudice, the fish jumped into the frying pan on that one.
In fact I recall when I was part of a group, these Norwegian guys said to my white friends is he with you, in a condescending way of course, and most americans would never be that ignorant in a major diverse city unless they were trying to piss you off.
It's funny, why always people relate the word racism with lighter human phenotypes. I don't find either Americans(specially white americans) nor Europeans(im talking about ethnic europeans not foreigners living in europe) to be particularly racist. The most racist people I've ever met were all non-white people living in their respective countries whom usually looked down on others who were darker than themselves, in the other hand they worshiped white/caucasians and their most distinctive features for some odd reason I still dont get completly. In some places such as latin america dating someone lighter than you can signify to move up in the social ladder, because being white (more so if you have really white/pink skin and light eyes/fair hair) is perceived as some sort of status symbol, therefore people want to do anything to associate them. In countries like Philippines or Singapore(applies for most of SE Asia) people do have a low-self esteem and they feel deeply lower than europeans and other whites/caucasians. I have a buddy who traveled to singapore and a local female working in a store asked him to not take picture of the local children, because they were not pretty like the white american children (she assumed him to be american).
You dont see that kind of mentality anywhere in the US or Europe. I do think the worst kind of racism is created from those who cannot accept themselves and are always hatin on others who are phisically furthest away from the prototipe they aspire to have (in most cases caucasian/european), or even to individuals whom might resemble themselves.