The ratio between countries who have intolerance issues, and countries who dont have people of other races or multi-cultural societies is directly linked. East Europe (some retards in Serbia beat up a black footballer recently), Italy, Spain and lots of other places has issues with crap like this because they dont have the same history of multi-cultural societies as for example France, England and such.
Not gotten used to or not having encountered much of people of other races and cultures means they dont know (any better) and hence fear it , and that defacto means ignorance of it. And ofcourse racism and intolerance is the bastard child of ignorance.
So in short, its the opposite, its not strange, but common stuff like this occur in countries who hardly seen people of other races before (in Poland when we went over a school trip there years and years ago, in the streets, they were openly racist to me and other kids who werent white, in a restuarant, a girl in our class were even spit on...).
Not gotten used to or not having encountered much of people of other races and cultures means they dont know (any better) and hence fear it , and that defacto means ignorance of it. And ofcourse racism and intolerance is the bastard child of ignorance.
So in short, its the opposite, its not strange, but common stuff like this occur in countries who hardly seen people of other races before (in Poland when we went over a school trip there years and years ago, in the streets, they were openly racist to me and other kids who werent white, in a restuarant, a girl in our class were even spit on...).
First off you simply dismissed the Roman empire. That's not very cool. I like the Roman empire. I would go as far as saying it was significant from a historic point of view. Now this Roman empire was big. And I'm not talking Scandinavia wonderland big. I'm talking Coca Cola company big. This Roman empire, because of the fact it was big, included many people from different origins. Even people who had black skin! Now I am not saying the Romans were of a very tolerant kind, but they did in fact know blackies.
Then the Roman empire ended. This happened because of barbarians from the North. Hell, they might even have been from Scandinavia wonderland. Obviously they weren't so well adapted at the time as rape, murder and fire tortured Southern Europe for quite a while. But eventually Southern Europe recovered. Cities developed again. In Italy in particular they became important. Cities such as Firenze, Bologna, Milano, Lucca, Pisa, Siena became places of commerce. Now what do merchants do, my friend? They travel. And what do they bring my friend? They bring things from lands far, far away. They might even bring things from Scandinavia wonderland. So what does this mean? This means that they encounter foreign cultures. They introduce foreign countries in their homeland. They would take away the fear of foreign cultures.
1492. Good year. Columbus reaches America. (Oh fuck it, YES, Osman, the poor guy thought he was in India. Very smart, thank you for the interruption). Actually your ignorant interruption reminds me of something. Italians went to India. Yeah, yeah, they did, they did. And people in India were not white. Oooh no, they were not white. But anyway, Columbus reaches America. Full of not so white people. At the same time lots of Genovese merchants went to Egypt and well, basically most of Northern Africa. People being less white there as well obviously.
WWII. I hear you, Osman. It's a war! Good for you. Now this war was not as Great as the first one, but it was still pretty good. Less poems though. Anyway, Italy sided with Japan. I know, it's weird, the whole Arian thingy, but they sided with Japan. People in Japan tend to be a wee bit more yellowish than most Europeans. Maybe it's a liver dysfunction, maybe it's a racial issue, who knows?
The 21st century. In easier terms, "now". Immigration to and from Europe, globalisation. You may have noticed that Italy is one of the more Southern European countries. You may have noticed that it is in fact one of the countries close to the African continent. You may have noticed that there are a lot of Africans who are not white. You may have noticed that a lot of Africans want to come to Europe. You may have noticed they don't just jump on a plane and fly off to London. You may have noticed Reggio di Calabria is full of black people. You may have noticed there are lots of tourists in Italy as well. You may have noticed lots of them are not white. You may have noticed that Italy actually truly is a multicultural society.
And then it all boils down to this one conclusion: you ignored two thousand years of history. And I'm being the soft guy here, because I could have said more. Italians have encountered other cultures for quite some time now. They are a people of merchants, merchants who travel. You know, the whole Gente di Mare thing. That's actually about Italians. So in the end, if I would have to point to one fact and say 'that's definitely NOT the reason why Italy is so racist' it would have to be your lack of other cultures and races within Italian borders.
Now the sad thing is that Italy truly is a very racist country. But you, my friend, are one ignorant racist ... who thinks it was okay to post such a ludicrous theory on this forum. Dear god it was bullshit.
Now go away and don't come back.
