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Private prisons are profitable.
Germany is a top supporter of the genocide in Gaza. What do you mean "we are taught about the Third Reich and never again"?
Wow, wild, uneducated thread.
Racism isn't based on race, it's based on power. That's why America is still a race-based society in late 2024
America is a class based society like every other clown regime.
Racism is a specific flavour of American classism.
You said it yourself it is above power...
OP: tell us your opinions about the Roma (aka - Gypsies).
Like I said this is not what this was meant to be for. I was looking for some educated explanations of the matter from an objective/scientific perspective to also widen my horizon on the matter. I don't want a bate or finger pointing here.
That's the point though. What's an educated explanation for why it exists in Germany as well? Or France. Or Britain.
It's because many people are insular and afraid and need someone to blame everything on.
I'm not trying to blame anyone here. Just want to understand including understanding my own country of course.
German Perspective
I wouldn't cast stones in glass houses.
Germany is also full of racial stereotypes. Particularly towards people from the Middle East and eastern Europe. It’s actually quite bad. I’ve known people who moved to Germany to study who decided to move back just because of the racism.
I immigrated to Germany some years ago and the Ausländerbehörde had pre checked the checkmark saying I would need welfare on my paperwork. I had to argue for like a 15 min to get them to uncheck it. Even after showing my voluntarily paid German taxes for the past 2 years.
I don’t even look brown. I imagine other people have it even worse.
Like I mentioned in my post I wasn't trying to downplay the racism that's also still prevalent in Germany at all.
From my view and from other Germans I talked to who even lived in America it just seems like Americans overly focus on ethnicity and these stereotypes linked to that on a daily basis that's dividing these people to a bigger extent than in Germany.
Maybe I'm wrong here and I don't want to discard any personal experiences with this that are different especially for people who were more directly affected by this. And I'm very open for thoughtful and fair education about it.
But generally it seemed like to me that Germany is pretty open for migrants and refugees. Currently 17% of the German population are first-generation immigrants where in America it's only 13% of the population with the plan to also soon mass deport illegal immigrants.
55% of all Muslims also have German citizenship and to me it felt like that many of them are very well integrated with many even living here for more than one generation and are pretty much being treated like any other German.
I think the clash might be more with immigrants/refugees who aren't from Germany and can barely speak the language. Because when you're living here since birth no one really questions your ethnicity whereas in America it seems to be a thing of daily occurrence where people are divided by just their skin color even though all of these people involved are as equally American and lived there for multiple generations.
From what I understood there are even schools for only black people. These such things are unthinkable from a Germans perspective. I don't think we have schools that are only for black, or Jews, or Arab, or Muslim people.
I'll give you an example as well: I know a German girl who has Asian ethnicity. She told me that her ethnicity basically never was a thing in Germany where she was just another German. But when she was doing an exchange year in America she noticed how big of a thing it is in America to make a deal out of someones ethnicity like when it's Asian which felt very weird to her.
Remember that Amerikkka is not a democracy, or socialist country. We are more of a oligarchy and we are ruled by the corporate elite. The system has propaganda everywhere saying we have power. But when the billionaires don't like something they can just throw money at the government (or however they do it) and it will change, Amerikkka is a capatilism country where we brainwash the people that think to believe that not having basic necessities is good for us and instead of helping each other we should fight each other over the little amount the corporate overlords give us.
There will be people who will respond saying "na huh! Not true". Propaganda in this country is EXTREME and sense all media is owned and operated by the billionaires... It's easy to brainwash the country (hence why TikTok is getting banned. Not owned by Amerikkka elites, and word of things they don't want us to know comes out from it, can't control it so ban it)
Anyone got any reports on how tiktok is handling public sentiment on the dead parasite and saint Luigi?
Reddit supression by strong AF and we got fair amount of it on large news and politics subs here.
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