The entire article seems predicated on the idea that Europeans look down their noses at us unenlightened Americans due to our inability to get past our own narrow minded bigotry. I've known and been close to many people from all over Europe in my life and work, and they certainly are not shy about making known the things about the US that doesn't meet with their approval. But setting aside the southern states and their slave history, I defy anybody to produce a European that will seriously state that the US is more racist than is Europe, or that this was the case at any point in the last 200 years.

In the US we have whole heartedly embraced industrialization, often to our own detriment. We have sacrificed culture and community for profit and economies of scale. We have no cultural identity and our elites care much less about creating an image to the world than they do about owning yachts and Swiss vacation chalets.

The Europeans, on the other hand, have a romanticized image of themselves, a strong opinion on what it means to be one of them and they have a clean delineation between themselves and the rest of the world.

Not to single out the Europeans, the same can be said of most people from any of the many homogeneous old world tribes.

i would like someone to name a country in the world where blacks live better than in america. feel free to include euroweenie countries as well as the ones run by mau mau's.