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On the contrary, studies clearly show that people are aligning themselves more and more with "tribes" that are based on a geographic area. Cheap travel and soc
by goodpoint 5y ago
On the contrary, studies clearly show that people are aligning themselves more and more with "tribes" that are based on a geographic area.
Cheap travel and social networks made it possible.
We are doing it right now on HN.
- inglor_cz 5y agoThis only really concerns highly educated professionals who can speak fluent English or other lingua franca. We on the HN are precisely such a self-selected subset. But European electorates as such (and we are talking about the EU here) do not, in the big picture, resemble this self-selected elite, and elected politicians must take that into account or risk growth of populist parties thriving on topics where the general population and the elite disagrees.