[celdon25]

1. I can't picture that many Americans moving to Europe, even if it were easier. 2. Of those who do move, do you think they will be smart or stupid for doing so? Will Europe get America's best or worst people? 3. Isn't Europe full of Middle Eastern refugees and globalists? Is your view a minority or is it a common opinion of Europeans?

[arkh]

1. I don't either but if we limit immigration from one kind of culture we should limit it from all.

2. I'd say those who want to profit from "free" healthcare first. Kind of what happen with our expats: once they start popping kids they come back because they can pay a lot less.

3. Full of Middle Eastern refugees? Asking this is like someone asking if the US is full of Mexican illegals. No.

I started my comment a little "tongue-in-cheek" but the more I think about it the more I realize the culture difference could be hard: out of the UK people speak a foreign language, no credit score system, a lot more socialism, less PC-ness, being patriotic (out of sporting events) is usually not well viewed. And instead of simple racism you have xenophobia: most people don't care about your skin color but a lot will care about your country of birth.

[celdon25]

There are actually relatively few racists in the US (especially in non rural areas), but I have been aware of the rampant European-style racism for awhile due to my mother being a flight attendant, and how she was treated. Sad to hear that we even have apologists for it on Hacker News.

[arkh]

> There are actually relatively few racists in the US

From outside you seem obsessed with race and skin color. I like US stand-up so I watched all def on HBO: it is funny but "black there", "white there". It looks like the kind of difference we have between European countries: we lightly joke about it but there's always an undercurrent of repressed us vs them.

And I'd like more people to stop using the word racism for xenophobia: racism is based on appearance, xenophobia is based on origin. One is the fear of difference the other is the fear of the stranger. For racists, a black Spanish and a white Spanish are different, not for xenophobes. For xenophobes a White American is not the same thing as a white South African while they're the same thing for racists.

[coldtea]

>Of those who do move, do you think they will be smart or stupid for doing so?

Parent didn't mention smart or stupid, he mentioned culture. Regardless of smarts, Americans wont be sharing the same culture with this or that European people.

>Isn't Europe full of Middle Eastern refugees and globalists?

Even if so, how would adding American immigration to that help?

>Is your view a minority or is it a common opinion of Europeans?*

We usually like our culture, thank you very much.