• afronaut@slrpnk.net
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    22 hours ago

    lol yea. I’m an American and fully support other nations boycotting our goods but I’m noticing an overlap with these boycotts and nationalist-imperialist sentiments.

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      20 hours ago

      Weirdly enough, from what I’ve seen, European nationalists tend to be very much against the EU.

      • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
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        19 hours ago

        That’s not entirely true. Europeans tend to dress up racism as national pride and concern for cultural norms (with a few exceptions). So it isn’t so much “I’m proud of my country” as “I don’t want Arabs and Africans on my street”.

        A lot of European countries have a long and detailed history that paints a grim picture that most people like to distance ourselves from.