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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 09:11 pm (UTC)
I am not sure where you are going with that comment, but I am also very tired right now :) So I'll ramble a bit more and hope nothing offensive comes out, as I always do in these posts.

I think especially Germans have grown up with an internalized guilt about any kind of oppression. It makes it difficult to discuss anything objectively. No one really blames today's living white US-Americans for slavery (and no one should, though the history obviously means a lot of problems), but since WWII is 'only' two generations in the past, it is still very much present today, even for people like me who are two generations removed from it. It's difficult to debate it without really wanting not be come across as an 'evil Nazi'.

And also, the way racism manifests is just so different here. The whole discrimination of people because of their race/religion (Jews, people from Islamic countries) instead of on race and the way things currently are with the Turkish communities... it just is different from the way I hear about it from US-Americans. I don't know what's worse neither can I judge that nor should there be a hierarchy. There are no affirmative actions for minorities at colleges for example, only a handful minority politicians, but there is also not centuries of bad history standing between the groups. So yeah, different starting point.

And no, I don't really know what i wanted to say with that.

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