All around the world, the same song

If you've lived in America for more than 10minutes, you've come to the realization that everything is racist. Don't believe it? Then just ask someone. No matter what the subject, there's always someone out there willing to find the racism hidden within.

Oh, to live among the enlightened Europeans...

On Valentine’s Day, a Danish newspaper went so far as to run a front-page headline accusing Ikea, the furniture giant founded by a Swede, which Danes have long loved to hate, of “bullying Denmark” by giving comfy sofas and shiny tables Swedish and Norwegian place names while assigning Danish names to doormats and rugs.

“I don’t think this can be a coincidence,” a Danish professor is quoted as saying on The Local, an English-language Swedish Web site (thelocal.se). He called it “cultural imperialism.” via the NY Times.