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I'm really struggling to understand your first sentence. Are you saying people generally aren't racist outside the US? Because my experience has been very, very different (and that's as a white male)

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I think he references the fact that in the US you get official forms from the gov that asks (as far as I remember):

Race:

- white

- black

- hispanic

- other

Like when you get your driver license or open a bank account. Coming from Europe I was surprised by such a question. Racial issues run very deep in the US.

This is what I was referring to.

Ah, I understand now. As some anecdata: here in Singapore (a country I think is renowned for it's multiculturalism, but correct me if I'm wrong), practically every important form, from opening a bank account to renting a condo to filing taxes with the government, requires me to select my race from a list of "Chinese", "Malay", "Indian" or "Other". In Thailand, it's normal for people to specify their race and religion on their resume.

There's certainly racism in other countries but it's not based on skin colour like in the US. For example some people in the UK have an aversion to Eastern Europeans, who are white but have no problems with black Britons.

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