must be a culture war issue in

Switzerland

Sweden

Netherlands

Germany

I don't mean to say that all other blackface is innocent, that being a perfect counterexample.

As far as I understand, Zwarte Piet started out as a depiction of a black person. But it wasn't used, like minstrel shows were, to push hateful and limiting stereotypes of black people.

I don't think every American doing blackface must have been racist, but I think that given the cultural context in America, doing so will justifiably cause such massive offence that it can't really be defended.

Hey guys, the continent with several countries that plundered Africa for hundreds of years and invented the trans Atlantic slave trade has never had a problem with racism.

Lol. This has got to be a troll.

North America has every group that is present in Europe, and plenty that are not at all present in Europe.

Plus wave after wave of European immigrants that settled in geographically diverse areas and interacted differently with the environment and the other people that came there since the beginning of colonialism.

They changed way more than France and Germany (or whatever you think is "diversity") in the same amount of time. Way more cultural exchange and adaptation.

The Italian Americans that settled in Chicago and New York are very different from each other. The Germans that settled in Chicago and Texas are very different from each other.

We also have groups that you don't have at all.

First, brown people. You have like 5. That's the Othello reference. You preferred white people only, so I'll continue with white people only (which makes me gag).

Mormons. Amish. Mennonites. I dunno, just country bumpkins. Pentecostals. So many.

I'm running out of white people. I just can't help but think that brown people are really important here.