Alright, first of all I too want to make sure this thread won't turn into a racist thread. It's useless and insulting when talking racist sh*t.
OT: (I'll focus on Europe)
A history lesson first.
It's 1946. Europe is nearly blown to pieces and the world is being divided into influence spheres between the communists and capitalists. (Soviet Union&allies vs USA, UK, France & allies)
Before WWII, Europe was mostly homocultural. What I mean is that every county in Europe had a people living in it with their own specific culture.
However, as we've seen now is that one of the reasons WWII started was homoculturalism, represented by nationalist movements in several European countries. (but, outside Europe too, like Japan)
Examples of European Nationalist powers: Nazi-Germany, Fascist Italy, Fascist Spain, Soviet-Union(arguable).
After WWII, this political idea of 'one people, one nation being superior to others' was considered dangerous and therefore amongst other (extreme)nationalist ideas banned from the political business. (NSDAP dissolved, NSB dissolved [Dutch nationalist movement] etc.)
Now where did multiculturalism started? European nations' industry was mostly destroyed and depended highly on either the USA, Soviet-Union or their colonies. While the nations were building their industries again, we saw that a huge amount of refugees went to Canada, USA, Australia and several countries in South America to search for their luck there. At that time, it was understandable.
There wasn't enough work in Europe, so governments promoted this.
Sidenote: the UN and
ECSC were founed.
However, the early 60ies were times of booming economies, and the industrialised countries needed more workers. (industrialised countires were the north/west european countries)
They attracted workers from the south of europe, like Spaniards, Italians and Greeks. This was the start of multiculturalism. It is well known that some of these people were discriminated, underpaid and not recognised as 'real' citizens.
The booming economy kept booming and the amount of extra workers from said countries wasn't enough. The result? Liberals demanded open borders for non-european workers (workers from eastern-europe couldn't enter western-europe because of the 'Iron Curtain'/Cold War)
While eventually, the South-European workers returned to their home countires, the workers from outside Europe did not. And here's where we've come to the core of this post.
The latest years, we've seen a revival of right wing ideas throughout the whole of Europe. Le Pen in France, Berlusconi in Italy and Wilders in my own country.
Also in the UK, but I think most of you can talk about that better than me... I can only judge from the looks of it, like last election results in London; socialists lost and Conservatives won etc.
Anyway, this revival of rightwingers is disputed by some, cheered by others. But most of the people now acknowledge that there are problems that the political left haven't done anything against, the big issue of them being cultural changes.
I believe that too many cultural differences aren't good. The one thing that binds a people, is namely their culture. And that's what is being dismantled, or even rejected.
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This post focussed on Europe, feel free to comment and argue me. I'll say this again, this is a discussion, nothing else.