I lived in Amsterdam for several years. My experience was that they were very open and friendly racists in a way that I just don't see in the US. Racists in the US are generally violent, raging assholes. In Holland people would literally want to talk to me in the grocery store about how it's cool that I managed to grow up into a seemingly reasonable person, despite being black.
Huh. My experience with US racists are they tend to hold stereotypes of minorities that are no longer politically correct, but otherwise treat people decently.
I see plenty of video of riots in Europe of aryans and skinheads that you don’t see in the US.
In the extreme perhaps, but most people day to day won't run into that. There will always be extremists. I really care about what randomly selected people are like. People I will need to depend on for things.
Soft bigotry of low expectations is definitely a thing in Americans who aren't violent, raging assholes. I would even argue that it underpins a certain part of the diversity effort - the one that wants racial quotas.
Literally named my dog Piet after this. The tradition is crazy to see live. Blackfaces, protestors, anti-protestors, police.... and Sinterklaas trying to pretend everything is fine.
