RE: Xenophobia?
February 21, 2013 at 12:44 pm
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2013 at 12:44 pm by Vera.)
(February 21, 2013 at 12:19 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: 10 years ago, people complained about the polish borders opening and how they would flood everything with cheap labor and imigrants.
Now, poland is one of the fastest growing economies, overtaking Britain and France with it`s wealth growing and growing and growing.
And it is polish newspapers and populist politicians today, who complain about "criminal ukrainians".
The question is what we're gonna do when we finally run out of "others" to fear and hate... Of course, we'll always have the ultimate dichotomy of male and female. So as long as we insist on clinging to the good ol' tribal, "us or them" mentality, we'll never run out of people to fear and mistrust. Hurray!
But the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others?
