Disclaimer: I'm mixed, so take my comments as you wish
I lived in Italy (Ancona, a medium-sized town in the Marche Region, and moved around a lot) for a year and a half, only had ONE account of soft racism...(in Sicily)
I've been thinking about moving abroad to
Belgium, France, or The Netherlands. Can you comment on either of those countries? @
IrishBrother
I'm Belgian so if you need any specific info let me know.
nah, they are racist as fukk over there. they hate immigrants and everybody who is not flamish.
Let's not get carried away here. Of course you got Vlaams Belang and N-VA who are really big there, but there are normal people in Flanders too, no need to generalize.
Breh, most blacks in France are Muslim so they won't make any differentiation between you or an Arab.
France is a nice place to live for a student, the young white french are cool people and their women
If you looking for a job though stay as far away from France as possible, employers are extremely racist and so are the cops.
As for the UK, well London is nice since it's a foreigner majority city

but i'd stay away from the north (Manchester, Newcastle...)
In my experience, not true. While you can assume that a Northern African is Muslim, the same can't be said about Black African immigrants. There are tons of African immigrants coming from Ivory Coast, Cameroun, CAR, Benin, Togo, the Congos etc who are not Muslim. French racism is mostly towards Arabs, and even more specifically towards Northern Africans (even though they are not technically "arabs") imo (NOT SAYING there is no racism towards black people).
To put it more generally, we also have to understand that Black people are not as much "part" of European history as it is in the US. Most European countries have only started having sizeable black populations very recently, I know that Italy didn't become a migration country before...the 80s, the same probably applies to Spain, Greece etc. So added to residual racism, you have the fact that people just don't KNOW black people, and when you consider that the very fact that there already is a Black minister in Italy is an incredible feat (countries like France or Belgium, who have had sizeable black populations for much longer and actually had colonies in Sub-saharean Africa still haven't had a black member of government). And like most incredible feats, it is met with ugly ignorance from a minority of Italians.