

i understand your hesitation and i commend your approach to others’ sensibilities. however, i wouldn’t consider “why are many americans racist” to be racist, because American isn’t a race. it is a nationality. but even without that, you are specifying within the group and also excluding. you aren’t calling all Americans racist, you are asking why there are a lot of racist Americans. truly, that is a fair question of any people. if your culture is racist… why?
nonexistent. i wasn’t really taught much of anything about Germany except what led up to WWII and even then it was heavily edited and summarized. i had to find out the lengthy history for myself and do my own research.