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by throwaway60701 1172 days ago
There's nowhere near the amount of immigrants you see in the US, where it's practically everyone. The more eastern you go, the less immigration. In Poland, Czechia and Slovakia there are major cities with zero non-white people and single digit percent immigrants from nearby states.
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inglor_cz 1172 days ago
"In Poland, Czechia and Slovakia there are major cities with zero non-white people and single digit percent immigrants from nearby states. reply"

There are Vietnamese communities in CZ/SK everywhere, even in very rural areas, but, you won't see them much in the streets, because they spend their life indoors working, and they usually own their shops, living right behind them, so they aren't even seen commuting to work and back. Quite often the only small grocery in a village or a small town is Vietnamese-owned.

But maybe East Asians are now considered (elevated? condemned?) as basically white by the American racial discourse?

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ClumsyPilot 1172 days ago
Indeed, is my problem with American racial discourse too - once you dig beyong sufrace level, it's inconsistent and primitive.

Whether left or right, their concept of ethnicity is primitive. white/black/asian.

Are Russians same ethnicity as Germans? Are Germans same ethnicity as Bavarian? Russian government considers Russia to have ~100 ethnic groups native to Russia.

Us discourse is either about skin-colour, or about man-made country borders.

The only scientifically based concept is Haplogroups, bur noone knwos about them.

The rest is man-made concepts and culture.

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comte7092 1172 days ago
>Whether left or right, their concept of ethnicity is primitive.

>The rest is man-made concepts and culture.

You got to it at the end. There’s nothing about any of it that is scientific, it’s all just culture.

The reason why it’s “primitive” in America is because that is what is true in the American context. It just doesn’t map to the European context.

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comte7092 1172 days ago
>There's nowhere near the amount of immigrants you see in the US, where it's practically everyone

That is an absurdly inaccurate assertion.

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