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Part of the problem is that you're mostly citing UK sources, where it's always been way more of a deal than it ever has in the US.

Which is probably down to the Irish. In the UK they've always been seen as troublemakers and problems right up to the point when they finally weaseled their way out of the Union (and then afterwards as well, during most of the problems in Northern Ireland), whereas in the US there's a ton of people of Irish descent who've had huge impacts on culture and society in general.

Different cultures are always going to produce different forms of racism, because racism is rarely knee-jerk disdain for the different (no matter how often some people like to paint it that way), but is usually motivated by at least a few other socio-economic factors as well.

In the same vein, I'd argue that racial discrimination against blacks was always stronger in the US than the UK (at least in modern times), whereas the UK probably had more pushback against Indians and Pakistanis for most of the later 20th century than the US ever did. And so on.


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