Yeah, I know what you mean re: race (and Racefail) - I guess that, no matter how globalized the world is right now, the race issues are still different depending on each nation's history/background. To make a personal example - I'm 27 and from kindergarten to the end of high school I never had a classmate of a different race or nationality. My brother is 8 years younger than me and he grew up with a small percentage (like 3-4 on a 20 people class) of either North African or Ex Yugoslavian kids in his class. Last year, when I tended after kidergarten kids for my civilian service, half of them came from immigrant families. So yeah, races and nationalities are mixed, but it's not really comparable to societies where different ethnic groups have lived together for a couple of centuries or more, or where immigration came from ex colonies. There are a lot of different scenarios and while some problematics are common, each one of them has their peculiarities, too.

Heh, sorry for the tl;dr, but I hear you :) I love to listen and learn from what happens on the other side of the pond, and it has often been an eye opener even on the race issues we have over here, but I'm not going to say it's a template you can apply worldwide. It's a bit like when you read the English Wikipedia and you find that note that says (more or less) "this article needs to be checked again because it's too focused on the U.S. and might not represent a world wide view of the subject" ;)