White Americans want to imagine themselves as part of a European diaspora and therefore fantasise about Europe as a place that is simultaneously more 'advanced' than the US and also fixed in time at some nostalgic or idyllic moment.

These fantasies are also racist in that they erase the diverse communities who actually live in the counties and fetishise a projected whiteness into a cultural superiority. The simultaneous and contradictory freezing in time makes that country an eternal, fixed homeland, free of diversity or the same structural problems of capital that plague north america.

This becomes problematic at various junctures, most often in north america, but also in europe when the US's billionaire class pumps money into fascist political projects that share their racialised nostalgia.

The idea of countries being 'advanced' relative to each other is already highly sus.

people also often like to bring up how racist Europe is, and how we regularly let refugees drown in the mediterranean etc. to support the idea of Europe as monocultural white ethnostate

but like people need to understand these aren't mutually exclusive things

a ton of Europe is deeply racist especially towards new immigrants, but also has a relatively multi-ethnic population and a strong diversity of cultures

and also like, you aren't generally going to be randomly kidnapped and thrown into a concentration camp for looking too immigrant-y here so there's that too

@GinevraCat @otfrom

I mean, any country has unneven diversity. The Randstadt is extremely diverse, but like Den Bosch is much less so.