All the time I hear about "the CIA will coup this", "America supported that", "These people opposed US Imperialism". A topic could have absolutely nothing to do with america and involve a place on the exact opposite part of the earth and Americans will find a way to make it about America. For example, people talk about Russian politics and Putin yet seem to support Putin wholeheartedly because his Russia "opposes american imperialism". This framing of the conversation seemingly ignoring how Russian people feel about his reign, how the EU has been having to drag america into the latest sanctions against Russia, and how for the last 4 years America had an ostensibly Pro-Russian president. I swear American Leftists don't care at all about Capitalism or Communism and just want to oppose the United States. Most of the world and people don't care about American influence, let alone to such an obsessive degree.

  • entrancefee [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Europe or other western countries aren't exactly all white either, due to colonial history and those socialist parties made many similar chauvanistic decisions. most western european countries happen to be higher percent immigrant than the united states these days.

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      4 years ago

      I would imagine it'd be similar forces that led to that then. I mean we didn't get it from nowhere, the country originally was settled by bourgeois and labor aristocracy british people. and it's not like euro/western centrism isn't a problem all throughout the anglosphere and europ.

      Can't speak to percentage of immigrants in europe as I know most about america, tho I have been to germany and it definitely didn't seem anything remotely close to the diversity i'm used to in my city. In london I'd say it was pretty diverse tho.