Kyros on 08 June 2008
Now if white people had gone through the same thing somewhere else in the world
Which time-frame would you like? From Arabs/Mongols/Turks and Japanese in this century Europeans have been dominated often in history. Its true that we have been mostly on the giving side since 1800. But seriously outside of the United States blacks have no special status in this regard. The British and French empires had no special preference for black guys but repressed anything from Indish people to Asians. Britain was the only European country using bigger numbers of slaves and they abolished this 1807 hunting American slave ships from 1833. So this heightened sensitivity regarding blacks is a typical US problem. Similar to German sensitivity regarding Jews.
I am not saying that this is a bad thing, being sensitive because of past digressions is necessary. But Americans should often take a step back and perhaps grant a Japanese developer to situate a horror movie in Africa without implying that he is in any way racist when he doesn't want to assemble a multicolored zombie horde in the black continent.
