“[E]thnic
nationalism tends to attract the most support from those who have been
disadvantaged by globalization and laissez-faire capitalism. Populist
demagogues have an easy time exploiting growing socioeconomic inequalities,
especially those between states’ geographic centers and their peripheries, and
they blame ethnically distinct immigrants or resident minorities. Part of the
answer is to retool immigration policies so as to better integrate newcomers.
Yet without policies that reduce inequality, populist appeals that depict
out-groups as welfare sponges will only gain traction. So governments hoping to
amp down ethnic nationalism should set up programs that offer job training to
the unemployed in depressed regions, and they should prevent the further
hallowing out of welfare programs.”— Swiss-Swedish
political scientist Lars-Erik
Cederman, “Blood for Soil: The Fatal Temptations of Ethnic Politics,” Foreign
Affairs, March/April 2019
The image
of Lars-Erik Cederman that accompanies this post was taken on Nov. 1, 2018, by AliceRuth11.
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