Well, no. I mean, Germany? That's Europe, not America.
Yes, but you can hardly say the US is more extreme than that.
Okay. I'm going to be mean now. Don't take it personally. You're being really annoying in a way Americans often are that I can't stand. You are taking the most dramatic moments of American history and calling that the rule, and when I bring up moments from European history you are calling it the exception. And no, it's really really not. Sweden played a part in the slave trade and owned colonies (kind of) in America before America became America. America is a REALLY young country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_colonization_of_the_Americas
I don't think so, it just adds another chain of cements. guess it depends a lot on how and when and in what conversation it is though.