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Europe does not get more racist the less ethnically homogeneous it becomes. I'd often say the opposite, in fact. It's just hard to point to examples of racism internally when a country makes efforts to keep itself homogenous (and like, yeah, if somewhere is ethnically homogenous you won't see many examples of ethnic discrimination). Also, anecdotally, and as someone white but with an obviously not-British name living in the UK, I got so much more shit for it in entirely white towns than in diverse cities. The most racist people are the ones who have no awareness and have never met someone darker than milk, not the people in cities who live on the same street as three mosques.

Anyway. Look at how some of the whitest EU states like Poland, Hungary and Czechia reacted to the migrant crisis when hardly anyone had arrived in them. A lot of EU countries just straight up elected neo-fascists because they were scared brown people might come to their country. People are already conditioned to be racist and xenophobic, and the second they get told there'll be any impact on their lives it comes pouring out. In my experience, it's just less apparent cause you don't see it day to day unless you're there (compared to the US where you can live anywhere and know everything that's happening).

I'll also say that ethnicity is a little different here than in the US, too. There's so many nationalist movements and ethnic conflicts within states that it's kinda inaccurate to point at there being lots of white people and say there's no diversity. It's just different to the US conception and makes it difficult to spot if you're going in with those assumptions.