This is also simply not true. For instance in my country, both Amsterdam and Rotterdam have around 51% of their *total* populations consisting of foreign born immigrants. Of the major US cities, only Los Angeles approaches this with 41%. And certainly, there are areas in both Amsterdam and Rotterdam that are almost exclusively inhabitated by minorities.
You simply don't know what you're talking about.
It appears you're the one that doesn't know what he's talking about. Here's some numbers for you. These are just cities with African- American minorities.
Detroit, MI 84%
Jackson, MS 80%
Birmingham,AL 74%
Baltimore, MD 65%
No, it seems you didn't read what I wrote; I explicitly mentioned *foreign born immigrants*. Black people whose families have been American for generations obviously aren't foreign born immigrants.
Most of these "minority immigrants" were white.
Again, simply not true. If 50% of the total population consists of immigrants, and more than 35% of the city's total population is non-western in origin (as it is in Amsterdam); then indeed, most of the immigrants are going to be non-western; ie, non-white. I went to the trouble of looking up a breakdown of origin for the immigrant population of Amsterdam. The most recent figures my quick search found were from 2009:
15% came from North, West, or South Europe.
5% came from East Europe.
3% came from N-America.
Another 3% represent "other" westerners. (Japanese immigrants are actually counted as Western immigrants, so this figure doesn't entirely consist of white people)
18% came from Morocco.
18% came from Suriname.
11% came from Turkey.
7% came from Indonesia.
3% came from the Carribean.
4% came from the Middle-east.
3% came from Ghana.
3% came from North Africa (excluding Morocco)
3% came from Central/South America (excluding Suriname)
4% came from the rest of Asia (mostly Chinese and Vietnamese; afaik)
3% came from the rest of Africa.
That yields only a minority of the immigrants as being white. Sorry.
But counting different Caucasian ethnicities as minority and grouping them the non-whites and claiming you have more diversity that America is ridiculous.
First of all, pretending that diversity means having 84% black people in Detroit is itself ridiculous. That isn't diversity, that's the exact *opposite* of diversity. If we're talking about *real* diversity, then it doesn't get any more diverse than Amsterdam, which has more different nationalities living within its borders than any other city in the world (substantially more than say NYC, in fact). Diversity doesn't mean "Hey, there's a lot of black people living here."
Similarly, your current line of reasoning is hard to understand as anything other than a form of implicit racism. After all, you're kind of stuck arguing that the reason we here in Europe don't have your problems with police brutality is because we don't have as many non-white people as you do. Which kind of implies that it's black people's fault the police keep shooting them because hey look at those white Europeans who don't have as much trouble with police shooting people! Naturally, this makes your line of reasoning highly problematic regardless of intent.
Thirdly, your argument also rests on the simply wrong statement that our cities don't have districts that are overwhelmingly populated by minorities. In reality of course, plenty of European cities have large areas where exactly the opposite is true. In Amsterdam, that concerns areas like the Bijlmer, and Osdorp, where white people are rare indeed. Rotterdam's minority districts like Spangen or Feijenoord are even less white than those in Amsterdam. You will find a similar situation for just about every large European city. Anyone who thinks we don't have neighborhoods that are overwhelmingly populated by people who aren't white is someone who'se never been outside the tourist areas of London, Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, or any other large European city. Plus, at least your minorities mostly follow the same religion as the white people in the suburbs; so if anything, you'd expect LESS of a problem over there as compared to over here, not more.
Face it, the US isn't quite the shining supreme beacon of diversity it pretends to be, Europe isn't the shining supreme beacon of whiteness that some Americans apparently think it is, and we're both kind of fucked up when it comes to shit like police brutality; but your society has the extra burden of being fueled by an insane belief in the way of the gun; hence you get the distinction of being "better" than us at police brutality.
