2026-10-01 08:19 UTC
Replies (11)
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@qevlarr@lemmy.world 2026-10-01 15:43
European countries aren’t all the same
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@EffortlessGrace@piefed.social 2026-10-01 16:01
As an American of non-European descent living in the Netherlands, I’m amused at the blank stares I receive when I ask people about where they think the xenophobic, self-serving, and bigoted attitudes that pervade “White America” came from.
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@MrMobius@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-01 11:23
I’m under the impression many Europeans mistake Romanis for Romanians. This could be one of the reason I Romanians are very harsh towards their Romani minority (so I heard): they don’t want the stigma of “the country of thieves”. But I obviously disagree with the stereotype that all Romani are thieves.
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@dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-01 16:22
Europe when muslim immigrants
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@BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2026-10-01 13:55
I’m American, but my grandma was a 1st generation immigrant. She always threatened to “sell [me] to the gypsies” if I didn’t behave. I didn’t have any idea what a “gypsy” was! There was no context for a 4 year old in the States. Hell, I didn’t even know it was a slur until I was in my twenties. That was pretty gross, Gram. Boomers gonna Boom, though, I guess.
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@BlindPenguin@piefed.social 2026-10-01 09:59
Every reddit euro sub in a nutshell
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@edgarde@kbin.earth 2026-10-01 11:39
I can't speak to Europe, but contrasting the milquetoast euphemism "American racial tensions" against a picture of Hitler seems to be going really easy on the United States.
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@lokalhorst@feddit.org 2026-10-01 08:50
As a European, this is very true. Anti-romani sentiment is very widespread and often overlooked when talking about xenophobia.
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@KexPilot@lemmy.world 2026-10-02 11:40
ITT: americans circlejerking and thinking europe is a country and that the gypsy situation in for example portugal is the same as in bulgaria
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@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2026-10-01 09:54
Let’s imagine, purely hypothetically, that there’s a minority that has big issues integrating into host society and that some aspects of their culture are not compatible with laws and local way of living. Is it possible to talk about it in a non-racist way? If yes, how should it be done? Or are we simply required to pretend the issue doesn’t exist? Again, purely hypothetically.
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@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-02 16:30
Curiously, the Romani came up when Congress was discussing the scope of the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution of the United States. The argument was if birthright citizenship was universal, we’d have to give it to them. At the time, sounder minds prevailed. Nobody likes migratory cultures. But it also appears nobody likes cultures too different from their own. And once we start cutting out ones we think are too alien, we rapidly move towards cutting into those who worship on the wrong day. If you want a culture to stop migrating, maybe facilitate their access to homes? I’ve yet to encounter a culture that doesn’t like comfort and convenience.