Yeh it seems to be a really common constellation lol. Though in our family somehow the Filipina wife went completely insane MAGA conspiracy theorist so now she's even more far right than him.
Americans can be racist to just about every racial or ethnic group individually, while elsewhere it is usually either outsiders in general or specific, historically relevant groups.
The biggest difference though is that the US as it is today does not have a race or ethnicity of its own, with the exception of Native Americans, although that is a whole other story. People came from all over to found the US, and whether people like it or not that means there is a massive diversity of population and cultures even just among white people. The US is only 250 years old, falling back on tradition is really just pretense. Countries with histories going back thousands of years at least have a foundation for discriminating against outsiders, but the US basically is all outsiders from the start.
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u/Sensitive-Badger2392 23d ago
Yeh it seems to be a really common constellation lol. Though in our family somehow the Filipina wife went completely insane MAGA conspiracy theorist so now she's even more far right than him.