Anon discusses American exceptionalism

That's a pocket monster, baby.

yeah it's funny seeing Poland in that list since for a hot while we were not considered "real white" and were "slavic", same story as what the Irish went through. From what i'm reading at some point we were even considered terrorists in the US! (because one Polish dude killed some president), and the same scare tactics as what happens around Muslim people today were engaged

history is so fun /s

Yeah, whiteness is all about who isn't white so it doesn't make sense for it to exist without people who aren't. The Irish, Italians, and Jews are all just some demographic shifts away from being not-white.

Does the same go for black then too?

Australia's mostly desert. A huge portion of Canada is an extremely thin layer of soil over solid bedrock which makes farming pretty much impossible, and a lot of the rest is tundra. The most important natural resource is arable land and neither Canada nor Australia have much of it.

Seriously; I've seen several such posts stating a belief that it's unsafe to visit the US, but that's wildly ignoring statistics. The violent crime rate is like half what it was in the 90s and continues its general downward trend, falling further to below the previous bottom in '19. And most of that still stems from gang violence and the like, so it's never near what tourists are doing.

I don't get it; I think people just like acting scared for some reason. Or maybe it's them grasping for a reason to feel superior? People love that kind of thing...

For sure. Sightseeing the US is probably about the same as sightseeing anywhere else, except maybe certain parts of the middle east or Haiti.

Zero or not, person from outside can only know that numbers look worse. Homicide rate alone in the USA is roughly 9 times higher than in Poland. You hear about school shootings every other week as well which doesn't help.

It's still a nukerpower, at least.

If I break my leg, I'll get first world 🌎 medical help from the best doctors in the country. Worth paying. Free does not always mean good.

Keep talking. Last time I checked you are directly under Russia's nose. It's just a matter of time when your country will beg US for help.

Yeah keep telling yourself that. The US is a shithole.

I would be interested in hearing of any country with the sheer volume of immigrants that the US has from every continent. We have migrants from every European nation, africa (including modern african culture, not just the results of the slave trade and imancipation), asian immigrants, including China, Japan, Veitnamese, Indian, even indigenous peoples as far as Oceania. And every culture is represented in our own, much to the dismay of those that believe our great works came solely from white hands. Our democracy is founded on a melting pot of ideas and inputs, not a euro-centric empire graciously allowing "lesser men" in it's borders.

Those are from 2003. Here's some more up to date data (with spreadsheets!): https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-racially-diverse-countries

USA is still placed at #90, but the top looks a bit different

It looks like the States is still one of more diverse of the 1st world countries. So I guess that's something. It's tough to beat Africa at that statistic

There's a reason that despite it's trash record for human rights, Russia is considered "First world". It's a fairly modern country with access to technology, infrastructure, medicine, etc. most of the world doesn't even have that.

It's pretty on par for European and American living standards outside of the ABHORRENT human rights situation there.

Russia lost 27 million in WW2, i imagine it took take many generations to recover from that. Certainly doesn't help to have a shitty government.

While most of the Russian territory is in Asia, the most of population leaves in the European part.

So? The claim was that Russia was a white nation which is objectively wrong.