>> ...in France we try to assimilate people more...
Really? What about the Muslim immigrants in the suburbs, who are practically in a separate world from mainstream French, cut off and unable to get in on the lifetime jobs that the French middle and upper middle class enjoy? French-African entrepreneurs report that they have better luck doing business with Americans, who don't care what your race is as long as you pay on time. This is a well documented problem in France.
It is an issue but a complex one. It's not like the whole country decided to put all Muslims there and never give them a job or education.
And you should know they are plenty Muslims (and/or Arabs) programmers coming from the suburbs and having that coveted middle-class life, I worked and have worked with many.
That's why I said "try". And I'm not saying that French are less racist than American, there definitely is some discrimination going.
I was more talking about cultural assimilation, I think a black american feels a lot more like he belongs to "the black community" as a french black does.
But many, if not most, African Americans have culturally assimilated, and black culture has permeated mainstream America as well. The U.S. has come a long way since the 1960s.
Really? What about the Muslim immigrants in the suburbs, who are practically in a separate world from mainstream French, cut off and unable to get in on the lifetime jobs that the French middle and upper middle class enjoy? French-African entrepreneurs report that they have better luck doing business with Americans, who don't care what your race is as long as you pay on time. This is a well documented problem in France.