@Ann1944 I'm white and I live in Europe. I'm not offended.
What I meant with my post is that things weren't always better before.
Even for white women life wasn't easier in the 60s or 70s, as some advertisement posters remind us.
Civil rights have been fought for and won during your lifetime. And that's great. However what feels worse now is that those conquered rights are being set back again. Today people don't get arrested for not giving up their seat. Not yet.

@Ann1944 I don't intend to argue about how bad things are now, however segregation in the US lasted until the 1960s an beyond.

You were 11 years old when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white person on the bus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott

Maybe things have never been this bad for the white population in the USA.

@benjamin @nicksilkey @GustavinoBevilacqua @quinn we agree to disagree. #France has a publicly-supported private school system with not other function than creating a social network among certain circles.
People send their kids to these semi-private schools to create a social status, to let them have a certain kind of friends.
And while public schools consistently lose students because of the fertility drop, private schools don't.

@nicksilkey @GustavinoBevilacqua @quinn

Remove the admiration for the self-made man and the other part is painfully true for any European country I've lived in.

[The long admired idea of the “self-made man” isn't self-made because he's built the strong and loyal social connections that will support him, defend him, and turn to him for wisdom and affection throughout his long and social life.]

Here we just hypocritically pretend it doesn't work this way.