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Really stupid question but how do you know so much as a non-American about American class issues? Like...I've done research on class issues in the UK for fanfic and just for the sake of my own curiosity but we're never formally taught any of those things.

Xenophobia and religious bias are a universal thing, but everything I’ve seen and read about the US shows it’s got this massive messy pile of social issues dating back centuries.

The way I see it, in a land like the USA, where the population is pretty much made up of a vast number of migrants, there’s always going to be some element of the society who says “Yes, but at least we’re better than….”. Skin colour is the biggest divisive factor, but even then, even among the white population, there are elements of superiority. A lot of it feels like it comes down to “we got here before you, ergo we are superior”.

Prime example is the fact that the Irish population were the underdogs in the early 1900s, especially the Catholics who arrived off the boats hoping for a new and better life from British-oppressed Ireland and were forced into poor areas. They were the new migrants. They were treated like dirt.

Fast-forward 20 years, and you have the pogroms of Eastern Europe, and yet another influx of migrants, this time of a religion that is already persecuted. The Irish population by this point has improved its circumstances, and they are able to go “well, at least we’re not THOSE people”. It’s especially the case for the English-speaking Americans differentiating between themselves and non-English speakers.

I do sometimes wonder if it’s the American dream gone sour. Every person who chose to go America chose to go in pursuit of a better life. Be all you can be. You’re free to prove you’re the best. All that BS. But they were every one of them coming from a place where they felt persecuted: the Puritans were trying to find somewhere to practise their religion, the Irish Catholics were treated like dogs in their own country, the Jewish survivors were fleeing massacres.

Then they get to America, and they’re at the bottom of the ladder, and the only way to get up that ladder is on the backs of the people below you. You help you and yours, but they can do it on their own, whoever they happen to be. Why should you help them? No one helped you when you were starting out.

The cycle repeats over and over again. Every time there’s a new sweep of migration, the people who are higher up the ladder, who are settled on their comfortable rung, look down and say “well, at least we’re not as bad as them”. They may not even be at the top of the ladder. They’re just adamant they’re no longer at the bottom.

It’s so much worse for the people with different skin tones as well. With white people, it comes down to culture and accent, things that can be easily hidden if people want to blend in (don’t even start me on the assimilation that some people expect when foreigners move to their country. It’s not fair or right to expect someone to abandon their culture, just because it’s not something you understand or are part of). It’s not so easy when your skin is a different colour from Average Joe White Person.

Huh. That got long. Not bad for 7am, before I had a cup of tea.