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Having lived in the UK as an EU immigrant with Indian, Black and Muslim friends I always found it ridiculous how so many Britons genuinelly thought that Britain wasn't at all Racist, even all the while from all I heard it is spectacularly Racist, well beyond other countries in Europe I lived in.
The entire system in Britain, including the Law, is all about suppressing the most visible effects of all the shit going on there (managing appearances is THE top skill and concern of British Upper Class, especially the English), which when it comes to Racism means punishing people for voicing Racism, but in practice not for acting it - as long as the thing is properly swipped under the carpet, it can be treated as non-existent and there is no need to look into or actually fix it (even when brought up like this, it's dealt with a bit of talkie-talkie, some meaningless measures that just hide the statistics or push down on the reporting that made it visible, and that's it)
More so than other countries in Europe, Britain is the kind of place were the garden looks perfect but if you turn any rock the most digusting things turn out to have been under it.
I talk to a lot of people for work, and the amount of people who casually tell me things with the prefix: i'm not racist but.... Is quite shocking. Everything after that is always racist, otherwise you wouldn't have to say it. It actually bothers me a lot, because just because i'm white, they assume that i'm just as racist, or racist enough that i don't mind. And they think that because their own experience with other people. I'm at a point where i don't care anymore and tell people that i don't care, because i'm not an asshole, i think you need to be racist to find that funny.
It's off putting how often it happens. I'm not a big talker, so i don't really get involved in long winded conversations with strangers, but every now abd then i find someone is nice enough and talk for a bit, and then i always think: when is he gonna do the racist thing. Just the other day i was talking to a guy in a hardware store, we talked about power tools, which tickled my autistic brain and i started babbling. Suddenly the conversation shifted and we talked about his house renovations. And he said something like: yeah and the drywall guy was some pakistani, but he didn't got to pay him pakistani wages, which sucked. Wanna see how he ate his lunch? And then he went into a squatting position for some reason, because apparently that's how the guy ate lunch. He found that hilarious, and i thought to myself: what average reaction did he get from that story? Stupid pakistani and his normal wages. And sits like that? What an asshole.