Americans do a lot of stupid things, but they are most likely to be self critical in this space. I think this meme should talk about Western Europe instead, because they have many problems, but they are so often never willing to accept criticism. They're quick to call the US racist, but in my experience, Europe has so much racism it's crazy it's viewed as this anti racist place.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ask any "America is so racist" European about their thoughts on the Roma people

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or turks. Or Moroccans. Or Africans.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or other Europeans. Damn Europeans, they ruined Europe!

[–] jormaig@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what are you talking about. I'm Spanish and the first people to criticize Spain is Spanish people. Probably you've never even heard of all the problems our country has. Unemployment, corruption, house okupation, lots of small crime, mafia related crime for all the drugs trying to enter Europe, lots of immigration as Spain is one of the doors to Europe... I can go on. For all of these there's a lot of debate and not much being done so far...

[–] Saltblue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bueno momento para visitar España?

[–] jormaig@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

More or less, just keep a good eye on your wallet and it should be fine.

[–] RawrGuthlaf@lemmy.sdf.org -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I (a US citizen) literally didn't get a job in Germany because one member on the team objected because I didn't speak German yet. The company is "English first" and I worked in the US division previously. So yeah, Europeans are certainly as capable of being racist. And they didn't even try to hide it!

[–] CampRefugeeCounselor@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that racism?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

Easily could be, since race is a social contruct. See the Irish not being "white." Probably just nationalism though.

[–] ADTJ@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the English language speaking race

[–] RawrGuthlaf@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 1 year ago

I see you deal in absolutes. The person wanted a fluent German speaker despite being an English first company. Put it together in your head.

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, it's racist to hire another more qualified candidate that can speak multiple languages in a setting that would benefit from that skill...

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Idk about OP, but from my experience, you can speak German perfectly correctly, but have an accent, and that will make your job search many times harder, because they know you're not "German". I highly doubt this is about skill.

[–] RawrGuthlaf@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago

Clearly you must have all the details about where I worked and applied already. What an amazing ability!