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That's not really true. Racialism, maybe even reducing it to 'colorism' is an obsessive thing involving the US predominantly. The focus on color v. color racial animosity is not replicated even in other western countries prior to American Social Justice artifacts being imported.
France, for example, has repeatedly rebuffed American Racialism as they have insisted upon a kind of unifying French culture after their Revolution. It's why Battlefield 1 was mocked for pretending that the French's Imperial troops were experiencing extremes of racism. In fact, the US Army repeatedly had to protest the French military, and the French military had to issue out orders not to allow White French to interact with Black Americans or treat Black Americans the same as White Americas because it was seen as an act of disrespect to White Americans. Black American troops on many occasions ended up immigrating to France due to the much better treatment they were receiving by the French than they had in the Jim Crow South.
Up until recently, the same could easily be said for the English who simply recognized Blacks as Commonwealth peoples, having never previously adopted American color grievances. Scandinavians basically hadn't even seen black people.
Latin America is particularly racially integrated because of the behavior of the Spanish Conquistadors who both enslaved and interbred with native populations to such a complete extent that it simply caused the populations to effectively merge. There are still technically Black, White, Indigenous, and Latino populations in Latin American countries, but none really had any of the extreme racial experiences that the Americans did.
Even White Supremacist Confederates who fled to Brazil and maintain both White Supremacy and the institution Slavery, ended up integrating with the local population anyway.
From what I understand, american nigger culture hasn't been much of a thing in other western nations. My best guess for tracing its roots are the american civil war and how black slaves were used as an excuse for deeper conflicts coming to a head.
It's hard for me to figure when nigger culture really became cemented (likely only in the past century!), but I think it's simple to understand the confusion modern foreigners might have about it. Firstly, "nigger" is the ultimate No-No word here, so any attempt to easily categorize the difference between blacks who wish to be productive members of society and those who don't (let alone the ability to easily call out a non-black for antisocial inclinations) is eradicated from public discourse. So a brit might hear some harsh stuff from an american about blacks, and they'll probably just write it off as american racism - they wouldn't do this if they were confronted with nigger culture themselves; much like how our american twitter randoms can venerate all manner of outsider, because they have no clue about barbarity in the real world.
Unfortunately, the recent immigration surge in all western nations seems to be providing a harsh lesson to people about some downsides of multiculturalism, but I think they're all a few decades off from having anything like american nigger culture. The strong must already support the weak everywhere, and this is taken to an extreme by governments attempting to put all outsiders before their own citizens. All that's really needed from there is for a particular class of people in each society to be raised with a sense of entitlement that is effectively backed by the law. It'd be a big challenge to become an integrated member of society after that kind of upbringing.
Outside of nigger culture, I mostly blame professional victims for the boom in racialism. I'd even say that they couldn't have done it without nigger culture. But I'd also say that the veneration of victimhood is part of jewish culture (and that a lot of modern american culture has conformed to jewish culture).
I need to just point you in the direction of "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" by Thomas Sowell who goes over all of this. He refers to it as Cracker Culture, because it actually stems from the Ulster Scotts in part, even down to linguistics.
Jesus, I didn't realize Sowell was still alive. It's surprising to see old people still cognitively functional, he even gave opinion on recent american politics (I hope he's not involved in social media, that shit's a brain drain).
I guess I'd never really bothered looking him up, as I only ever see him mentioned in passing. A lot of his ideas expressed on wikipedia sound legit. Actually kind of irritating the more I think about it - we could be hearing people talk about him instead of some youtuber geared towards tweens.
The book sounds interesting, thanks. Claiming the origin of cracker culture to be from an identifiable group of foreigners is enough to make me interested. Hopefully he actually puts a definition or description to it, as I have had very poor results from questioning those I encounter using the term cracker to describe people.
He nails it down to a specific kind of culture that existed in pre-aglicanized Ulster among the Scotts living in Ulster. Their culture and language crossed the ocean with them during some of the initial settlements of the colonial south, and they took a some of their bad behaviors with them.
It's so significant that the act of burning a cross on your enemy's land comes from the Scotts (though they didn't traditionally burn crosses, they burned other symbols for the same dramatic and intimidation effect). It's why they the KKK called themselves a clan.
To be specific, I can tell you that he doesn't go into the specific entymology of each term, but historical lineage of the terms are fairly well understood.
Cracker, referred originally to these same people, but chiefly people who happened to braggarts. Similar to the usage of the phrase "Not all it's cracked up to be". A cracker is someone who cracks up himself.
Rednecks were not inclined from a necessarily derogatory term, but was also more clearly pointed at this same group of people. Particularly because the Ulster-Scotts were Presbyterian, and Presbyterians of the era were known for having worn red neckware to symbolize a blood oath taken in defiance against the King of England who had attempted to seize control of their official church.