How do we understand the phenomenon of immigrants and non-white individuals becoming rabidly far-right, white nationalists and/or anti-immigration?
I've recently been reminded of this due to the Czech republic having a far-right party (Freedom and Direct Democracy Party) who wants to expel all migrants and "protect Czechia from Islamization" that is headed by a Japanese-Czech mutt who was born in Japan and lived there until he was 10.
>The intensity with which they are held does not prevent nationalist loyalties from being transferable. To begin with, as I have pointed out already, they can be and often are fastened upon some foreign country. One quite commonly finds that great national leaders, or the founders of nationalist movements, do not even belong to the country they have glorified. Sometimes they are outright foreigners, or more often they come from peripheral areas where nationality is doubtful. Examples are Stalin, Hitler, Napoleon, de Valera, Disraeli, Poincaré, Beaverbrook. The Pan-German movement was in part the creation of an Englishman, Houston Chamberlain. For the past fifty or a hundred years, transferred nationalism has been a common phenomenon among literary intellectuals. With Lafcadio Hearne the transference was to Japan, with Carlyle and many others of his time to Germany, and in our own age it is usually to Russia. But the peculiarly interesting fact is that re-transference is also possible. A country or other unit which has been worshipped for years may suddenly become detestable, and some other object of affection may take its place with almost no interval. In the first version of H. G. Wells’s Outline of History, and others of his writings about that time, one finds the United States praised almost as extravagantly as Russia is praised by Communists today: yet within a few years this uncritical admiration had turned into hostility. The bigoted Communist who changes in a space of weeks, or even of days, into an equally bigoted Trotskyist is a common spectacle. In continental Europe Fascist movements were largely recruited from among Communists, and the opposite process may well happen within the next few years. What remains constant in the nationalist is his own state of mind: the object of his feelings is changeable, and may be imaginary.https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/notes-on-nationalism/ >>2508801I'm from Texas and there's just a massive low-wage immigrant labor force, like the state is doing the Abu Dhabi model. The largest bulk of that is Latin American but the immigrant population is really a mix of everyone from everywhere. The more visible and growing South Asian population seems to be the most varied in terms of social class. Like for every engineer or doctor there's a guy working in a strip mall corner store and doing that classic Indian petty merchant work.
I've seen the Republican Party trying outreach to South Asians, like with signs out during election season that just say "Vote Republican" in Hindi.
>>2508755Is your Romanian father in a union? in a well organised industry? With the social institutions of the labour movement? willing to put money on "No".
Side note but having spoken to organises in GB, Romanians are notoriously hard to get involved with trade unions, mostly due to experience of trade union corruption back home.
>>2508801>You have no idea what you are talking about. I live in Germany and every minimum and low wage job is disproportionately done by immigrants.And what industries are they in? Those of the historic industrial proletariat? Or post-industrial slop jobs (retail, on-demand delivery, etc.).
You read reports of New York of every migrant group under the sun; Italians, Jews, Poles, Russians, Germans you name it, would move to the city and form unions or join them. This included in trades that today are poorly organised. Why? THey weren't born socialists, and the chances they were in their homeland is not actually as high as you think. What you had was an active socialist movement willing and able to migrant the "fresh off the boat" communities into unions that were GOOD AT THEIR JOBS and provided social support beyond merely pay and conditions. This helped build solidarity of the purest type.
>>2508828>willing to put money on "No"You are right.
You shoud've mentioned class consciousness instead of calling migrants petit bourgeois when many are cleaners, construction workers, working on fields and etcetera…
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