maybe this is getting a bit off-topic, but i did live in the usa for a while - my partner had a sabbatical at yale. and pretty much everything in new haven seemed to come down to race. where you lived. what you drove. which shops you used. race was by far the best indicator i found for almost anything i cared to think of.
i guess maybe connecticut is particularly racist and as you go further south things are more balanced - i wouldn't know.
but it's not just me, is it? if we're talking about justice then america's legal system is famous for how it discriminates against coloured people. that and its size are what its known for, internationally. it's pretty much designed to kill blacks, right?
so to say that it's "not much about race" seems pretty weird. that seemed to be the defining characteristic of american culture - and particularly its legal system - to me.
i'm sorry if this comes across as america-bashing. but recently i've been told here so many times that my rights don't matter because i'm not american. so it's got the point where, well, we're just being realists, right? compassion, mutual respect, that kind of thing aren't what life is about...
i guess maybe connecticut is particularly racist and as you go further south things are more balanced - i wouldn't know.
Generally, the stereotype is that the North is less racist and the South is more. Because of the War between the States (1861-1865) - Southern states were slave states and Northern states were free states.
It's more nuanced than that, but that's the main narrative.
Don't you think that you can substitute 'race' in your description of CT with 'money'? Ie - rich people live/drive and shop in different shops from poor people.
I posted this here a while back[0], and it speaks to what you are saying… Even I have been treated better by complete strangers in Northern Africa than I do in the US…
We can play all the PC games, but the undertones are pervasive as it always has been here…
In the words of Langston Hughes: "America never was America to me"
