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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
do you have any reason to distinguish trump's and trumpsters' hate for immigrants from Brexit, or Sweden's, or Italy's or Germany's? Not arguing, trying not to see a rising tide in a lot of places against outsiders.
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I guess I see a lot of commonality across the countries -- the rising tide you describe. I'm sure there are a lot of differences between the countries, but in each place politicians on the right can appeal to and promote an ethnic/racial sense of community that is hostile to cosmopolitanism and citizenship based on the law. I think a lot of it has to do with the recession ten years ago. Fear of terrorism seems much stronger in the US than in Europe. And there are big differences in where immigrants are coming from. In Britain, it's much more about legal immigration from elsewhere in the EU.
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