why did the west commit to multiculturalism?

[Centurion1]

So you're telling us that being objectified as a nation of breasts isn't a problem?

Eastern Europeans already get a rough time in Britain, but then so do the French.

It's all about the "Other" and has nothing to do with skin colour. I think you are imposing your local American prejudices onto Europe.

Strike refuses to admit that white Europeans can be discriminated against just as harshly as brown people. It is his shtick to bemoan the sufferings of the "brown people"

[Strike For The South]

So you're telling us that being objectified as a nation of breasts isn't a problem?

Eastern Europeans already get a rough time in Britain, but then so do the French.

It's all about the "Other" and has nothing to do with skin colour. I think you are imposing your local American prejudices onto Europe.

I was unaware xenophobia was a uniueqly American trait. Coincidentally deflecting the arguement is the same thing the local Americans do.

Strike refuses to admit that white Europeans can be discriminated against just as harshly as brown people. It is his shtick to bemoan the sufferings of the "brown people"

This is a falsehood and you miss the issue, the concept of "white" has changed everytime the "whites" were about to be outnumbred. White Europeans can be discriminated against, but that is not the issue here. Reverse racism in the western world is kind of like the war on Xmas, A few isolated incidents does not a war make

[Fragony]

'White Europeans can be discriminated against, but that is not the issue here'

Why is that, it are hate crimes

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

I was unaware xenophobia was a uniueqly American trait. Coincidentally deflecting the arguement is the same thing the local Americans do.

You are obsessed with "brown people", if I'm prejudiced against your notional "brown" people it is no more than against Scots or Welsh, or especially the French.

There are certain things I don't like, I don't like the current fashion for Islamic women to cover their faces, I find it mildy offensive and off putting. However, I feel exactly the same about booty shorts where I can see the colour of the girl's thong.

This is a falsehood and you miss the issue, the concept of "white" has changed everytime the "whites" were about to be outnumbred. White Europeans can be discriminated against, but that is not the issue here. Reverse racism in the western world is kind of like the war on Xmas, A few isolated incidents does not a war make

This is not true in Europe, in Europe Spaniards, Portugese and Greeks have always been white. In America you have the concept of "Latin", which isn't something we have in Europe, we just have Northern Europeans and Mediteranians, and the Northerners include the French, who are "Latin".

You are trying to impose an American racial prejudice on Europe and it doesn't work. It's not that we don't have a history of Racism, but it is a very different history. We never had, for example, slaves in Europe, only in the Colonies, and we never had legal segregation, Blacks, Indians and others had exactly the same rites under English law as whites and I'm assuming this was the same elsewhere.

[Kagemusha]

You are obsessed with "brown people", if I'm prejudiced against your notional "brown" people it is no more than against Scots or Welsh, or especially the French.

There are certain things I don't like, I don't like the current fashion for Islamic women to cover their faces, I find it mildy offensive and off putting. However, I feel exactly the same about booty shorts where I can see the colour of the girl's thong.



This is not true in Europe, in Europe Spaniards, Portugese and Greeks have always been white. In America you have the concept of "Latin", which isn't something we have in Europe, we just have Northern Europeans and Mediteranians, and the Northerners include the French, who are "Latin".

You are trying to impose an American racial prejudice on Europe and it doesn't work. It's not that we don't have a history of Racism, but it is a very different history. We never had, for example, slaves in Europe, only in the Colonies, and we never had legal segregation, Blacks, Indians and others had exactly the same rites under English law as whites and I'm assuming this was the same elsewhere.

Very good post.World depends on the eye of the beholder.

[HoreTore]

Strike refuses to admit that white Europeans can be discriminated against just as harshly as brown people. It is his shtick to bemoan the sufferings of the "brown people"

Liverpool is capable of winning a match now and then, but that does not in any way make them champions.