Combat Xenophobia - But How?
It surely can't have escaped most people that Europe is becoming increasingly xenophobic, what with claims that multiculturalism has failed and/or encourages segregation; the demonisation of Islam; the "argument" (I hesitate to glorify it) that immigrants and/or Muslims are taking over the world (Christianity got there first and the colonialism of the whites was and is an utterly brutal thing, to put that into a little perspective); justifying xenophobia because of the perceived bad manners of immigrants; immigrants taking jobs that should theoretically belong to natives (blame capitalism); yeah, I think you get the point already. It's all bullshit. It is nothing but polite and widely-accepted bigotry to claim that not being white or Christian or being born on the other side of an imaginary line somehow makes you inferior (then again, the people I argue this point to tend to have problems understanding that human beings aren't equal...). Logic, though, isn't...