What kind of Turks am I talking about? I'm talking about the Turks in the rest of Europe, who get treated like sh!t because they look like Turks. The ones who do all the menial jobs and end up living in virtual ghettos and who white locals who are feeling particularly virtuous about, can institute programs to try to integrate them into the surrounding community.
(Denmark, which is the particular case I know about, was doing the virtuous integration attempts in the 1950s and is still doing them today. As far as I'm concerned, that's a Big Frakking Clue the underlying racism isn't being addressed.)
This isn't some complex, you-must-know-all-the-historical-and-colonial-issues-and-judge-each-case-on-its-merits thing. This is plain and simple, "do you look and dress like the local whites? No? You'll get treated differently, mainly worse", can-be-explained-to-small-children, racism.
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(Denmark, which is the particular case I know about, was doing the virtuous integration attempts in the 1950s and is still doing them today. As far as I'm concerned, that's a Big Frakking Clue the underlying racism isn't being addressed.)
This isn't some complex, you-must-know-all-the-historical-and-colonial-issues-and-judge-each-case-on-its-merits thing. This is plain and simple, "do you look and dress like the local whites? No? You'll get treated differently, mainly worse", can-be-explained-to-small-children, racism.