Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
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.