Every country and every culture has a streak of racism in certain quarters. It is a natural, ANIMAL response to something that is different, that manifests itself in suspicion and aggression. Most of us aim a little higher than the animal.
However, GJ's objection and that of some others is that most Americans appear hypocritical and moralising.
I remember Lenny Henry, a very funny English gentleman of dark hue recounting his experience in a Greenwhich Village nightclub. He sends up negroes mercilessly. On this occasion he made a negro joke and as he says "It went down like a lead balloon" The audience was so politically correct they would'nt laugh. They considered themselves non racist but in acting this way they only showed their true colours.
While I was in London recently I was chatting with a West Indian woman. She told us how much they hated the Nigerians. She said they were arrogant and called West Indians "slaves". She grinned and said our reply is "And who sold us into slavery?"
But as I said above, it is the image the US projects abroad that upsets people
Jerry
