I wanted to add that even though I believe that there’s probably still a lot of the discrimination against our own people in some places of Europe that you mentioned, I have to say that I rarely experience this.
Like the example you gave for the UK, even though I have never lived there for a long period, I’ve been there many times and I’ve never seen anyone mentioning the societal class. Maybe from movies or games that play in the past they say “Look at this poor peasant” but I’ve never experienced this IRL.
I don’t wanna hate on America at all (I think it’s an awesome country in many ways), I think this is just important constructive criticism because I’ve experienced so many times that Americans called people black or white and made a stereotyping/discriminating thing out of it, said the N word etc.
And especially for purely appearance based reasons I think it’s particularly bad because no one can change their body or skin color since that’s how they were born.
But of course we need to get rid of all discrimination including the ones against foreigners that Europe also definitely has!
And like I said, to me it seems like many Americans discriminate against other Americans even without having a different background.
They could both be American for many generations, both are Christians, both are fans of the same football team but they still separate each other solely based on their skin color.
And this discrimination purely based on someone’s appearance is what seems so weird to me and that I haven’t noticed to this extent here in Europe. Of course people like this will also exist here but it seems very rare where as in American culture it feels like it’s integrated into normal every day mainstream life to have stereotypes based on these “races” and to differentiate between races like “black people”, “white people”, “Asians” etc. in general.
I mean I could somewhat understand if it was related to religion, rituals etc. because those things actually affect someones personality and culture and that this can naturally clash (different personalities and cultures) is pretty obvious. But it being related to appearance makes no sense to me.