I was thinking about this. Loppar, try telling a poor person in the US who likely has a two-bedroom apartment with AC, electricity, running water, and a cell phone that they have nothing to complain about because they’d be middle-class in Mexico.
These countries like Greece are understandably concerned about the refugee crisis. They are less able to absorb all of the immigrants, because they’re already in serious financial straits, relative to what they’re accustomed to and the other countries in the EU.
Not talking to you here, but it’s a mistake to assume that all of the nationalist movements across Europe can be summed up as racist and xenophobic. I’m thinking of Brexit, and Germany’s recent close call where Merkel had to agree to some immigration reform in an attempt to keep her party in power.
Not thinking of Greece in particular here, but I think some of this is the idea that any dissent against increasingly leftist policies is seen as unacceptable, and expressing it is likely to have you called a selfish person, or a racist. I see some of this as push back against leftist politics, of the authoritarian kind.
@poisoneve and anyone else. I had an old thread on this topic that might be interesting to you. There’s a great article by J. Haidt.
I put this video up in that thread. Jonathan Haidt is very good at explaining some of this. This is just an 11 minute clip, but the whole lecture is good. @probnit8 you might like this.
@probnit8. As an aside, CROATIA!!! Wow, that was soo exciting. The blonde Croatian player with the ponytail made that header, and then Russia also scored a header, I was DYING. That was so exciting to watch. WHOOT!!!