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kleinbl00  ·  3121 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Religious Freedom - HELP ME

Right - that polite country of yours.

Europeans looking down their noses at Americans for their civil issues is the most tired, most tawdry, most hypothetically continental move there is. In Amsterdam, this is "tradition":

In Los Angeles, this is front-page scandal:

The split here is you come from a homogenous society based on a homogenous culture that emphasizes homogeneity. Y'all are 87% white, maybe 7% Indian, 3% black, nothing else really in the numbers. Where I grew up, white folx were the third largest minority behind Hispanics and Native Americans.

It's easy for you to be high and mighty.