Reply #28: being a tourist and a resident are two distinct things [View All]

[asphalt.jungle]

The attitudes towards you aren't the same. Italians aren't exactly known for their accepting of the other. The suburbs I was talking about are Parisian suburbs, it's where the housing developments are and where the poor folks live. When the riots kicked off a few years ago it was in the suburbs. All those black faces you see in the starting lineup when Les Bleus is playing, the suburbs is where they are from.

I watch football (and even traveled with Arsenal on their European adventures) and the kind of shit you see in stadiums in Spain and Italy (and we don't even have to touch Eastern Europe yet) would not be tolerated in America ... banana throwing, monkey noises. shit in Italy they made one black player cry because of the racist abuse. Can you imagine something like a Kick it Out campaign in American sports in this day and age? It's a big racist world out there. And as another poster mentioned, the Middle East ... enough said.