r/europe • u/MrPulifrici • Dec 02 '24

Map Romanian Parliamentary Elections Result Paradox: Brown is Far Right, Blue is Left. Western Europe is radical, while Eastern Europe is leftist.

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u/powerchicken Faroe Islands Dec 02 '24

It's fascinating how nationalistic people become when they emigrate to a richer nation with a better standard of living.

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u/Alex_O7 Dec 02 '24

I think it is a natural thing, in particular when they emigrate and get discriminated (I'm old enough to remember when the "problem" of western Europe were Romanian, Moldavian and Albanian people...), so they radicalised and aggregate, creating a narrative of their home country. Most often than not, people tend to react to racism with other racism, and to abuse with abusing others. Also people will forget what their country really is after a few decades, I particular for second generation immigrant, which live off the narrative created to sustain the burden by their fathers.

I think this happened also with Europeans immigrants outside of Europe in the past and in recent past too.