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Perhaps Europe is better at gender (due to strong social policies), but Europe is't immune to racism.

It's not talked about so loudly like in the US, but I've experienced so much low-key, out in the open racism in Europe towards Arabs, Moroccans, Chinese, Africans and so on.

I'm not white and while I don't feel like my life is in danger, I know from looks and behavior that I'm not on equal footing with a white European.

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The US has been grappling with these issues for a long time, so it's normal to discuss it there.

In Germany, I get more of the feeling of, "oh, we don't have those kinds of problems here". It's basically denialism, like when the Dutch defend Zwarte Piet. Not that you don't see that in the US for some people too, but it seems to be more widespread in many European countries, where the very fact that it hasn't been as widely discussed before leads people to believe that it must not exist.

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