You are aware of why historically there are many Asian Americans in the PNW and about the history of anti-Chinese laws there?

I mean a lot of the pacific northwest was conceived as a white supremacist ethnostate so....

Also, part of why this imbalance happens is for lots of reasons the world tends to know more about the US than the US knows about the world. So we don't tend to push back.

And in some places, people know more about US politics/policies than they do the politics in their backyard!

My point is not: The US is less racist.

It is also not: France is more racist.

My big takeaway is racism in the US is just... transparent. It's easy to see, because of the legacy of slavery and Black people in this country, the racism is loud.

It gets even better.

In French universities, depending on your study, exams are oral.

There's no real paper trail.

A racist prof can just fail you.

What do I mean?

It is very easy to look at the US and point to the reams of data about racial disparities.

I'm a Black woman. I get it.

And then you go to France and hear a French person tell you racism is not a problem there.

How would they know?

France doesn't track racial data.