Comment by FreeTrade
5 months ago
Economic decline fuels resentment towards immigrants and minority communities. Government becomes increasingly repressive to keep tensions from boiling over into riots and perhaps worse. This is why countries are obsessed with growth - many things can be papered over with sufficient growth.
Call me crazy, but it seems probably unwise for any nation to be perpetually operating under "we're a bad recession away from ethno-nationalists starting a race war" as a default state of affairs.
well they accepted these people into their country in the first place
Most of the ethno-nationalists are born here.
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250,000 gang rapes are another reason for hostility towards immigrants. As well as the cost.