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Originally Posted by Wildcat!
....... I know for a fact its not like that in most of the US. They encourage integration a lot more. There are of course cases where its not, but whats more important, is people take an active role in trying to remedy that! etc. etc. etc.
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You say you've lived both sides of the Atlantic, but your post doesn't make it seem like that. You're trying to quantify racism. You're trying to say the UK is more racist than the USA. That is not my finding. Wander round New York for any length of time, and I don't mean Manhattan, and you'll see that ethnic groups stay pretty much in their own communities much like they do in London and other places in the UK. It's the same in Chicago, it's the same wherever there is a diverse population. There is just as much racism in the USA as there is anywhere, and if you don't believe that, have a look at their statistics on the ethnic background of their prison population.
This thread though, was created for an argument. It intimates that the WHOLE of the British public are racist against black people. That is simply not true. For the record, if I had to choose from personal experience the most racist place I've ever been, the place where social and ethnic divides are the greatest I've ever seen, it's India.