• PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world
    113·
    1 day ago

    This is kinda excessively insulting and ignorant.

    All my ancestors came to the US as poor white trash. The Irish ones were being actively starved.

    Switzerland is like 80% ethnic “Swiss” and the rest of it is Italian, French, and German.

    Honestly, to an American, European ethnic uniformity is bizarre. You’re so white and seem to think because you have Othello, you’re diverse.

    • Jiral@lemmy.world
      61·
      15 hours ago

      An American saying he has never been to Europe, without saying he has never been to Europe.

      Barely 2/3 of the population of Zürich is even born in Switzerland. It is true however that most of the immigration is from the EU. But Zürich (and Switzerland in general) is rather the outlier here. Big European cities tend to be anything but ethnically homogenous, certainly not in Western Europe. What is however true is that Europeans don’t tend to think in skin colours but ethnic backgrounds, at least those who aren’t Nazis.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
      61·
      1 day ago

      Huh? The Swiss are Italian, French, German and Romansch speakers. They are also divided along Protestant and Catholic lines. Switzerland is far more diverse and divided than people care to realise. They even had a civil war because of this. What made them live in harmony altogether is because of the agreed power sharing after the conflict. Iirc, the governing parties must represent the four linguistic groups.

          • PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world
            11·
            11 hours ago

            Lol. This has got to be a troll.

            North America has every group that is present in Europe, and plenty that are not at all present in Europe.

            Plus wave after wave of European immigrants that settled in geographically diverse areas and interacted differently with the environment and the other people that came there since the beginning of colonialism.

            They changed way more than France and Germany (or whatever you think is “diversity”) in the same amount of time. Way more cultural exchange and adaptation.

            The Italian Americans that settled in Chicago and New York are very different from each other. The Germans that settled in Chicago and Texas are very different from each other.

            We also have groups that you don’t have at all.

            First, brown people. You have like 5. That’s the Othello reference. You preferred white people only, so I’ll continue with white people only (which makes me gag).

            Mormons. Amish. Mennonites. I dunno, just country bumpkins. Pentecostals. So many.

            I’m running out of white people. I just can’t help but think that brown people are really important here.