Compared to other western countries, the US doesn’t seem racist at all.

There's racism in all societies. Human beings are tribal creatures, no matter how "civilized" they claim to be. Singling out the United States is wrong.

I get that they're asking what country you're from, but why would they be interested in your skin colour? That's just as useless as asking your shoe size.

Sure. Most of them damn racists voted in Obama. Pretty outrages claim.

Yes, I know. But the US is the only one I know enough for me to comment on, and the contrast with the Brazilian society made me think about that. I'm not saying that racism is exclusive to the US, I know it isn't.

I honestly have no idea. I mean, there must be a reason, I just don't know what it is.

Did you even read the whole text or just the title? I used racist in this text as "someone who divides people into races", not as "someone who thinks some races are superior to others".

The US seems to be obsessed by race (both left and right people). A good way to reduce racism, would be to stop dividing people by skin colour.

That's exactly what I'm trying to say this whole time. I'm using "racism" because it's the best word to define it, but what I mean is the US is obsessed with dividing people into races. Everyone treats skin color as if it was this super important and character-defining thing. And it has nothing to do with left and right, it has everything to do with the culture of the country.

 Do you know what the definition of racist is? *shrugs Acknowledging the differences between different races and cultures is not racist. The US is a massive country and because of that we have different accents/slang/cultures on top of the American culture.

Wha? Where are you getting this assumption?

From my experience (at least in real life interactions), most of us Americans are no longer racist.. The only remaining racists in this country lie on the fringes of either the super old fogie conservatives who still cling to racism against non whites that was far more prominent 50-150 years ago, OR the crazy far left nuts (mostly millenials) who have taken a sort of reactionary position from white racism in the past and ironically become racists themselves but mainly become racist OF whites (because we're all apparently inherently "privileged," and larger % are apparently bigoted and thus deserve what all we get and aren't allowed to cry racism ourselves). Even though as a white man (well Italian Polish) I grew up in a lower-middle class family, am currently about 80k in debt, and despite applying to about 500 places in the past year and earning a masters degree, have yet to land a full time salaried job, I'm somehow inherently privileged because my skin tone has less melanin.

I have both sides of these schools of thought in my family which is immensely frustrating, but thankfully both of these extremes seem to be a dying breed (yes, even the more recent millenial anti-white racist phenomenon). The growing majority don't give a shit of the color of one's skin, ethnicity, gender, nor their heritage, and more seem to be placing more value on eachothers' character and ideas, which as a (mostly) libertarian definitely gives me some hope for this country..

Unfortunately its those 10% of loons that get all the attention, for one because they tend to be the loudest, being the most radical, but also because the media largely feeds this fire as it generates the most attention and thus the most revenue.