Sounds like Goa, without an "economic crisis"! FN http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54022
EUROPE: IMMIGRANTS SCAPEGOATED FOR ECONOMIC CRISIS By Ignacio Ramonet , JANUARY 2011, 2011 (IPS) - Recent passage of an anti-immigrant referendum in Switzerland creates the risk that right- wing parties in the rest of Europe will harden their opposition to foreigners, Muslims especially, writes Ignacio Ramonet, director of "Le Monde diplomatique en español". In this article Ramonet write that across Europe a new wave of demagogues has surfaced blaming foreigners, Muslims, Jews, and blacks for all recent disorder and forms of insecurity. The immigrants are the easiest scapegoats, symbolising social disturbance and representing to the less well-off Europeans unwanted competition on the labour market. The far right has always tried to address crises by blaming a single cause: foreigners. It is deplorable that this approach is now being helped along by the contortions of the democratic parties, which have been reduced to asking themselves how much xenophobia is acceptable in their own discourse. Xenophobia can now show it face without worry. There is every reason to fear that "just as happened with the Tea Party in the US", the political spectrum in Europe will shift towards the far right, which will place democracy itself in jeopardy. (*) Ignacio Ramonet is director of "Le Monde diplomatique en español". ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 Afro-Brazilian musicians in Goa (photoset on Flickr): http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/sets/72157625793593769/ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||