RE: Here You Go, Europe
July 12, 2015 at 6:46 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2015 at 6:51 pm by Regina.)
That's true, I think you can see it in fashions as well. If you look at the "fashionable" clothes Americans have historically wore, nothing would look out of place in the same time period in the UK.
Although one thing that is really different from the modern UK is the prevalence of fundamentalist right-wing Christianity. We do have right wing groups in the UK, but they are fringe and even they don't tend to be so motivated by Christianity (more by anti-immigration sentiment). In America there seems to be a really present and powerful Christian right and you don't see this so much here outside of Northern Ireland. I find that really ironic as well, considering England is not officially secular while America loves to claim secularism.
Although one thing that is really different from the modern UK is the prevalence of fundamentalist right-wing Christianity. We do have right wing groups in the UK, but they are fringe and even they don't tend to be so motivated by Christianity (more by anti-immigration sentiment). In America there seems to be a really present and powerful Christian right and you don't see this so much here outside of Northern Ireland. I find that really ironic as well, considering England is not officially secular while America loves to claim secularism.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
