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by iwontreddit 3632 days ago
> Or look at America, the world's biggest melting pot.

Oh stop it. We aren't a melting pot. We are nation with nearly 80% white population. And there has been tons of anti-immigration laws in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_immigration_to_the_Unite...

Yes, the cities have some diversity, but most of the country doesn't. The vast majority of towns/rural districts/counties/etc are 95%+ white. There are a few that are 95%+ black and 95%+ native/hispanic.

> People I know here in the US have no issue having real friends, people they hang out with and regard as equals, who are ethnically Asian, Indian, African.

And we also have racial strife, violence, etc. We also wiped out the natives, put japanese americans in camps, had pogroms against the chinese, enslaved and brutalized blacks, etc. Go read about the LA riots.

The US is one economic collapse from major racial hatred and violence. Go read about what happened to the chinese in the US and the mass lynchings during economic strife. As long as the bubble keeps getting inflated, everyone will behave more or less. If that bubble ever pops and there is an economic crisis, you'll see what american is really like.

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>We are nation with nearly 80% white population.

The US is 61.6% white, 17.6% hispanic/latino, 13.3% black, and 5.6% asian.

Source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/00

77.1% white including white hispanics (speaking Spanish doesn't make you not white!) Source: same link as parent