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　　The refugee crisis is a much smaller thing (most refugees are staying in neighbouring countries and NOT "coming" to Europe). But China Wholesale PPR ELBOW Manufacturers can be used to illustrate my point: the refugees are mostly victims of old forms of xenophobia in places like Iraq and Syria (religious oppression, sexism, bodily discrimination and threat, etc.), but they are often considered abstract "economic migrants" (not refugees, as you rightly point out) in Europe — because the stranger that high capitalist European xenophobes fear more is the worker entering their artificially protected welfare spaces. In your book you write that "no one’s a racist", then how does racism still exist Is it that Eurepean countries are ghettoising the migrant population because they form "cheap labour" Racism is a form of old xenophobia. It has not disappeared. For instance, I find many Indians and Arabs more racist, in the old sense, than most Europeans today. And it has not totally disappeared even in European welfare states.

　　But old forms of racism are relatively rare in developed, rich European states; current European reasons for keeping out "foreigners" are abstract and abstractly economic, not overtly racist in most cases. You are not kept out because you belong to another race, but because you will take away jobs, etc. So, in that sense, "no one is a racist" in these countries, but of course, xenophobia persists, and sometimes impacts on the old victims in new ways. Prophet cartoons, France’s ban on the burqa and veil, Hungary saying that it will not accept large-scale Muslim migration , you say, are instances of "new xenophobia". While you argue that capitalism is the main cause of xenophobia, does revival of religion add to it The way religion is being "revived" has a lot to do with capitalism today. Where would Wahhabis be without rich Saudi Arabia Where would the Christian right in America be without its funding and its "white" economic privileges Would the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria continue to get the funds it needs and smuggle out the oil it smuggles out without a "global" capitalist system where the flow of international capital is left almost unchecked Religious fundamentalists sometimes portray themselves as opposed to some aspects of global high capitalism, but they are knee-deep in its mud and their "remedies" point to the past because they have no real solution for the future.

　　Hence, the seemingly "feudal" and reactionary character of most kinds of religious revivalism, also in India. What about national identity Too many books have shown how "national identity" is constructed and imposed. People have the right to decide what sort of society to live in, but no society has stayed fixed or will stay fixed. It has to be a democratic decision that takes into account the international sources of one’s "national" wealth and power. That is what xenophobes — including religious and nationalist ones — are not willing to do. They are not searching for honest answers; they feel scapegoats will suffice.Is Europe becoming a closed society for outsiders I wish to stress this that much of Europe contains some of the most open and least xenophobic people in the world. For every xenophobic German or Frenchman, there is at least one German or Frenchman who is open to strangers, including Muslims. This is a high ratio. And many of the others are not necessarily xenophobic but bewildered by what they cannot understand. There are people like that everywhere. My book is a bid to make them understand, as well as I can.