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‘Whiteness’, low youth engagement and lukewarm pro-Europeanism in some states risks eroding bloc’s founding values, expert says

Voting patterns and polling data from the past year suggest the EU is moving towards a more ethnic, closed-minded and xenophobic understanding of “Europeanness” that could ultimately challenge the European project, according to a major report.

The report, by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and the European Cultural Foundation (ECF), identifies three key “blind spots” across the bloc and argues their intersection risks eroding or radically altering EU sentiment.

The report, shared exclusively with the Guardian, argues that the obvious “whiteness” of the EU’s politics, low engagement by young people and limited pro-Europeanism in central and eastern Europe could mould a European sentiment at odds with the bloc’s original core values.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Heck the basic mechanism also applies to e.g. inner-German migration, kid of a Bavarian couple in Lower Saxony sticks out enough to be "The Bavarian" in class.

sounds like your society's got a ton of racism that's precluding the second generation from gaining acceptance

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's your alternative? Enforce a common culture across the whole world so that noone ever sticks out when abroad?

Una in diversitate, not e pluribus unum.

[–] BMTea 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

No... the alternative already exists, which is to put up with people who "stick out."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

And what makes you assume that we don't put up with Bavarians? We're a stem family society it would be deeply suspicious to us when people from abroad suddenly discarded all of their roots. Come here from Japan? Prove you're an actual human being by missing Nattō and prove you've become German by complaining about it being so hard to get here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

yeah, that seems like a society with diversity but no inclusivity