It's way more than being a white thing. Europeans have been warring with each other for centuries because of how they view unity by ethnicity. They've spent all those wars shuffling around their populations until they finally established something resembling a bunch of for all intents and purposes mono-ethnic countries before becoming comfortable enough to allow a very limited number of different ethnicities to move around their borders when they created the EU.
yes, it's a mystery why people would rail against stupid american bullshit when they could have informed and enlightened insights such as this
There's a wider trend in Europe to try and limit the influence of American political and cultural ideas and even business. A lot of Europeans consider American identity politics a sort of tribalism or balkanization that has echoes of the collapse of former Yugoslavia.
You can see this across a wide spectrum of topics, from entertainment where European productions such as Lupin and Nordic murder mysteries have taken center stage to food, where McDonalds and Starbucks are losing out to local bars and restaurants.
Politicians like Macron are rejecting the idea that nationalism or patriotism is only reserved for the far right and have instead changed it to 'look after your community' because most Europeans believe that in the end we have to face our challenges together.
A sentiment that is both wrecking the far right and woke left because their protests have not managed to achieve anything and do not tackle issues that the society cares about. For example BLM fell flat here because police violence is not a widespread issue in most of Europe. In a lot of countries most on duty cops aren't even armed.
There's also political issues of course where the EU reached their own agreement with China without US involvement and talk about increasing Russian energy imports is no longer taboo.
In fact during the COVID crisis, the Russian military provided aid to certain regions in Greece and Italy. Something that would've been impossibe 10 or even 5 years ago.
It's even happening here in the Netherlands. People are openly questioning to allow Amazon to build more data centers, considering those use a lot of (renewable) energy, provide very little jobs and pay no taxes.
3 years ago, they would've gotten the contract just for being an American company. After 2 'lost' decades Europe is starting to follow its own course as opposed to siding with the US automatically.
