Two posts in one for a response... I'm honoured <g>
Typical Cromwellian bs artist. You start your post by calling me a liar, then wind up admitting I'm at least half right.
Cromwell? Maybe this name has a different context in the US... the famous one here is Oliver, renowned as the only unelected non-noble to rule the UK <g>
Anyhow, I merely asked you if you were ignorant or lying.
I'd say that attitudes at the top are more important; and where majority public opinion can be most directly felt (elected roles, or those directly serving the public) this changes fastest. What I've seen of bureaucracy - a fair amount, from both sides - has been equally slow and, ah, impersonal regardless of colour.
The Scandanavian countries are historically almost absent racism... however, this may be due to their near-homogeneous makeup. Germany and France have borne the brunt of recent immigration: but one tends to hear the 'horror stories', so I don't know how bad problems there really are. Also, in both cases, non-white immigration is both more substantial than the UK's, and even more recent - hugely post-1950, mostly post-1960. THe volumes in so short a time will not have helped.
I don't really know about Spain or Italy... we don't hear of many problems, but from what little I know racism there tends to be more anti-Arab and specific to new immigration. |
