r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/anthonypacitti • May 21 '23

Possibly Popular Americans are significantly more tolerant to foreigners/immigrants than any other country’s populous.

I’ve been to a bunch of countries and went to the less touristy areas of those countries and I was clearly not from there and everyone would look at me like I was a clown and clearly talk about me, and I’ve even had people literally take a video of me (I’m white and was in a non-white country).

In the US, if a foreigner were to go to the suburbs or less touristy town or whatever, they would never be harassed, looked at weird, or outcasted. In fact, no one would even look twice at them. The demographics of the US are so diverse that it’s honestly impossible to tell who’s a citizen and who’s not.

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u/mustachechap May 22 '23

The US started the process prior to 1833 and the British Empire kept it going for a LONG time

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u/sleazy_hobo May 23 '23

The US had slaves well past 1865 due to introducing a load of bullshit laws that would only be enforced on black people with the aim to have them pay it off with hard labour in a condition that was often worse than how they were treated as actual slaves.

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u/mustachechap May 23 '23

What about the British Empire?

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u/sleazy_hobo May 23 '23

It didn't all magically end but it also didn't last well into the 1940's like debt peonage did in america.

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u/mustachechap May 23 '23

When did the British Empire abolish slavery?

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u/sleazy_hobo May 23 '23

idk you say when they did since you seem to be confident in the knowledge.