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Ha ha - Lyle, you are a funny guy!

You post blanket statements like that all the time, and I can never quite work out if you have your tongue firmly planted in your cheek or not.

The US is trying it's best, but I wouldn't say it's light years in front of anyone else. That's quite a dangerous statement when you think about history in America (Slavery, cheating and genociding Indians, segregation and apartheid, sports colour bars, Vietnam conscription, ghettos, Watts etc etc. Europe and the rest of the world have their own dirty and sordid pasts as well, but it does you no credit imagining America is somehow better. Routinely referring to Arabs as towelheads, camel jockeys and sand niggers (as I have heard many many of your countrymen do on this forum alone) does give people a certain impression of you guys! Why don't you put all of your domestic crazies in Guantanamo, or is that for goddamn A-rabs only?

I lived in Chicago and Detroit when I was younger, and still travel across the pond regularly on business - I'm afraid that you live in a much more racist and divided society that we do on the UK, anyway. Mixed relationships are generally still frowned upon in most of the US, you don't see many kids mixing with other ethnicities, you have 'areas' where people of certain ethnicity live. If you go to a mall and go to a food hall, look at the kids hanging around - blacks sit with blacks, hispanics with hispanics, asians with asions, whites with whites etc.

Yes, there are going to be exceptions, but they stand out by their very rarity. Yes, big cities may be more tolerant, but most of the US is still rural middle-America.

Sorry, mate, but that's just the way I see it.
They mainly sit with people of the same race because thats who their friends are. I don't care if a white man dates a black woman or a black man dates a white woman, as long as i don't have to see two dudes kissing on either mtv or the news.