Enosh said:
fun fact: not the whole world is a "melting pod" like the USA. Overall racism is a much bigger problem, not only in Russia, but basicly everywhere in Europe than it is in the USA. Minorities in Europe are preaty much throwen in ghetos have a hard time getting jobs and aren't seen as "insert nationality of the country they are in" even if they behave like they are fully assimilated. In the US you are seen as american if you behave like one. In Europe you are seen as European if you have the family tree to prove it, fully assimilated immigrants aren't accepted in Europe by as many % of people like they would be in the US
Bullshit. First of all, no on considers themselves or anyone else for that matter European. No one is throwing anyone into Ghettos. And it's also fairly easy to "pass" as American, since it's a country virtually made up of immigrants. Are you honestly surprised that Turks in Germany or Indians/Pakistani in England will not be instantly thought of as nationals? That's not to say that any of what you said is correct though, assimilated immigrants are accepted by pretty much everyone except maybe racists.
The problem unfortunately is that a very large number chooses not to. They are living among each others with hardly any contact to the local populations, they chose not to learn the language, often even the second or third generation is hopelessly ignorant of it. Add their poor education, religion and (partly based on that) their nonacceptance of local customs and/or even worse laws and you have roughly the situation in say Germany. That's not even touching upon the "Germans" from Russia.
Make an effort, try to integrate and, oh surprise, people will actually give a damn about you.
Mattlikewhoa said:
Skip the whole eastern block if you can...it's depressing to as hell to visit to tell you the truth...
This is unfortunately true. It's scary how ignorant and backwards for example Poland is. The worst part is that that in this case the youth is even more extreme than the previous generation, which doesn't bode well for the future. And don't get me started on the neo-nazi scum..