There was an article out there about how protests this year have been consistently twice as many as in 2017. Show him that and then ask him if he’s seen it covered in the news.

“We take your (public) land, now you work in a factory or starve”.

Where can I read more about this?

Because you just got wooshed.

7 because I like to eat my pen covers (please tell me I’m not alone in this).

Should be the same for Christians and Jews, but for Muslims the answer is absolutely not.

To echo everyone else: You don’t. Multilingual countries just have many official languages.

Indians don’t look Middle Eastern, though; they look Indian. They’re a very different kind of brown. And either way do racist Germans really care enough to make that distinction? For all they know Muslims are brown people from the Middle East no?

Are you sure? Because to my knowledge most Muslims in Germany are Middle Eastern and therefore quite easy to distinguish from the white Germans around them.

But my question was particularly referring to that divide based on pure ethnicity because who you call “black people” are exactly as American as who you call “white people” with the only difference being having a different darkness of skin that doesn’t even have a determined line at which point someone is considered “white” and at what point someone is considered “black”.

So the short of it is that the wealthy classes in colonial North America created this divide to make white people feel better about keeping slaves from Africa even though they converted to Christianity. That’s it, it’s all a ruse by the ultra rich. However, the ruse has continued for so long that even after racism “ended” (it absolutely hasn’t) the system is very much racist, and that aside it’s just baked into the North American consciousness now. Being black or white or Hispanic is part of one’s identity and in many cases community.

It’s not quite the same as being a migrant group that brought a different culture from a different country.

Many minority groups in America do have different cultures than the white majority, though it’s not quite as big as the difference between Germans and Muslims. For example there are many Hispanic people whose main language is Spanish rather than English, and some blakc people have their own dialect.

Finally I want to add that despite all these details the crux of the issue is xenophobia. That’s why the things Americans say about minorities in general are very similar to the things Germans say about Muslims. Fundamentally it’s the same thing, and Germans and other Europeas will have to deal with many of the same issues America is dealing with now (to a lesser extent though, because of the lack of slavery)

White Americans feel about black people and other minorities roughly how Germans feel about Muslims. And I have to say, Germans do not like Muslims.

My country puts informants in diasporas in foreign countries so… yeah, it happens.

I’ll be honest: If you’re not white you’ll probably want/have to get out of the US anyway. Might as well bite the bullet now.

Taxes are high in Germany, but then again you also don’t pay for health insurance and get good public transportation. The calculation will probably turn out better than you’d expect, though nowhere will be quite as lucrative as America for tech.

This has been my view of China too; good to see it backed by a random internet person.

Your post seems to echo this by saying the South’s main thing was they wanted to be separate, even though that happened to include slavery, there were other reasons too.

If so let me restate/reclarify: The South mainly or exclusively fought because they wanted to defend and further slavery as an institution (not even own states themselves; that’s a charitable way of putting it). However, the North didn’t give a shit about the South owning slaves; they just didn’t want them to secede and that’s why both sides came to blows. To the North the slavery thing was kinda bad but really not the point; what they wanted to do is (to oversimplify) keep the South in the Union. That’s what I was trying to say.

Yeah obviously. I think I made that clear enough. I mean I put “slave” right there.

While the Southern states were ultimately fighting for slavery as an institution, the question the war was trying to answer wasn’t whether states can have slavery; it’s whether states can secede. If the North was willing to accept secession (which would’ve been a massive mistake don’t get me wrong) the war wouldn’t have happened. The Southern proposition that made the North go to war was, at least to my shallow understanding, “I’ll make my own Union with blackjack and (slave) hookers”, not “I wanna keep owning slaves”.

In that case maybe go to those groups with your idea? You might find someone willing to protest with you or otherwise help make your idea work.

“Kamala is for they/them - Trump is for you.”

Okay screw Trump and all that but this is good.

I don’t know if this is relevant, but I and many others feel basically this way about Americans as a whole. Gonna be laughing at (or at least not crying too much for) y’all as we’re all drafted into WWIII.