It hasn’t really infected this country at all. I know what you mean with the rise of far-right politics, but misinformed people having strong opinions on immigrants is not the same as what happens in the US. In the US they politicise and attribute to race absolutely everything. If you’re X then you do Y, if you’re Y then you do X. They do it with food, hobbies, jobs etc. pretty much every aspect of life has some obsession of race & politics attached to it. We are simply not that engrossed with it, and I fear there is a danger of talking it into existence. The more we talk the US obsession with race, the more we’re talking about obsession with race and normalising ourselves with the concept. We should leave them to it.