by Heigen5 » Fri Jan 22, 2021 11:18 pm
Trobador222 wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 2:50 pm
Heigen5 wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 2:31 pm
I'm in the hope to see some quality leading by Biden. For me, USA should show out some exemplary behavior, how all kinds of the different ethnic groups can live in a big harmony.
That is kind of the defining struggle in politics here and in Europe. The rise of the right wing Nationalist style of politics has moved race, ethnicity and national origin to a position in politics that has not been seen since the 1930s. What do we want to do moving forward.
I read a good article the other day, defining the groups who did storm the capital as some of the most privileged people in history. They were largely working class white people who have never wanted for anything in their lives. Yet somehow they have been convinced their social status in the US has been reduced, simply because racial and ethnic groups that did suffer from inequality in the past, have made gains in modern US society. And now, they want to burn everything down. I can’t really speak to the Nationalist Right wing in Europe but with immigration being forefront in their policy, I can’t imagine they are much different.
And it is perfectly legitimate to question immigration policy but to do it based on racial lines is very dangerous. So what is the answer?
In Finland and Estonia (as I don't know much about the other European countries) nationalism has also been rising up. Not in a big way, but both these 2 countries got a new politic party, that stand for the so called "real" Finns and Estonians. The people that are fanatics in that manner, just check the media and immediately correlate in a racist way, based on the few tiny happenings related to the immigrants.
The Finnish party is called "Perus Suomalaiset" (Native Finns) and the Estonian one is called EKRE (Estonian Conservative National Party).
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I'm in the hope to see some quality leading by Biden. For me, USA should show out some exemplary behavior, how all kinds of the different ethnic groups can live in a big harmony.
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That is kind of the defining struggle in politics here and in Europe. The rise of the right wing Nationalist style of politics has moved race, ethnicity and national origin to a position in politics that has not been seen since the 1930s. What do we want to do moving forward.
I read a good article the other day, defining the groups who did storm the capital as some of the most privileged people in history. They were largely working class white people who have never wanted for anything in their lives. Yet somehow they have been convinced their social status in the US has been reduced, simply because racial and ethnic groups that did suffer from inequality in the past, have made gains in modern US society. And now, they want to burn everything down. I can’t really speak to the Nationalist Right wing in Europe but with immigration being forefront in their policy, I can’t imagine they are much different.
And it is perfectly legitimate to question immigration policy but to do it based on racial lines is very dangerous. So what is the answer?
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In Finland and Estonia (as I don't know much about the other European countries) nationalism has also been rising up. Not in a big way, but both these 2 countries got a new politic party, that stand for the so called "real" Finns and Estonians. The people that are fanatics in that manner, just check the media and immediately correlate in a racist way, based on the few tiny happenings related to the immigrants.
The Finnish party is called "Perus Suomalaiset" (Native Finns) and the Estonian one is called EKRE (Estonian Conservative National Party).