Key issue here is time. You’d be hard pressed to find somebody in Scandinavia or England who can trace his genealogy back to the Viking era; however, in America there are people alive whose grandfathers were born slaves, and quite a lot of people who remember the Jim Crow days that came post-emancipation. It’s not funny to us because it’s still having a real effect on people’s lives today.
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Key issue here is time. You’d be hard pressed to find somebody in Scandinavia or England who can trace his genealogy back to the Viking era; however, in America there are people alive whose grandfathers were born slaves, and quite a lot of people who remember the Jim Crow days that came post-emancipation. It’s not funny to us because it’s still having a real effect on people’s lives today.