Interesting Comments on Race Here and Abroad

The actor who plays the Iraqi dude on Lost says America less racist than his native England:

They're still a couple, and he's never had second thoughts about leaving his native England behind, Andrews said.

"It was bloody awful, to be honest," he said. His Indian ancestry, he said, left him largely disenfranchised in a country that remains dominated by "small-minded" attitudes toward race and social class.

America "has its problems. But there's a sense of possibility here. ... In England, the class system is about a thousand years old and it's not going to change any time soon. You don't feel that here.

"Here, it's an economic class system ... But it doesn't feel that you're going to be trapped in it forever, like you do in England. You feel like you can break out of it," said Andrews, who trades his English accent for a Middle Eastern one in "Lost."

I thought the Euros were the enlightened ones.