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> Europe has a strong xenophobic streak running through it at the moment, in each and every country there is a right-of-center party either ruling or gaining st
by chaostheory 3y ago
> Europe has a strong xenophobic streak running through it at the moment, in each and every country there is a right-of-center party either ruling or gaining strength to the point that people are seriously worried they will be able to unite. Most of these campaign on fear-of-the-other and immigrants are obviously a very convenient scapegoat. Housing shortage, the social contract that has become unstable, school quality and so on, each and every problem is traced back to immigration, no matter how ridiculous the link.
Caught many people off guard, but this disease has also spread to Canada. They’re just a lot more subtle about it compared to most Western countries.
Maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise to us since one could argue that it likely spread from the US? However, on a whole we still don’t blame immigrants for housing shortages and job losses (yet).
- jacquesm 3y agoFor the US and Canada this is in a way even weirder: the vast majority of the population there can trace back their own roots to immigrants, I find it hard to imagine if you know your own history to that degree that you would object to other immigrants. For Europe: not all that long ago many here were refugees, on the run for the Nazis or during other wars. Immigration and refugees are a sign that the world isn't working well, a symptom, not a cause and you can't cure symptoms.
- chaostheory 3y agoThank you for pointing that out. This political cartoon highlighting this hypocrisy is over a 100 years old. https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn544901 https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn544901