Yeah. The Polish diaspora dwarfs the local population.
Pretty sure this is a trend in countries that suck, when there aren't sufficient barriers to emigrating.
I suspect English racism towards Poles, which is very new, is just the same as e.g. old US racism vs. 'talians/Irish.
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Yeah, I think that's a point frequently missed by Very Smart leftier types trying to argue with nativists.
The point isn't to have a consistent ideology, and the beliefs/bugbears are mostly irrelevant. The point is to maintain your local competitive advantage.
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I tend to get extremely leery about "white privilege" debates:
1: "white" is a nativist-racist construct with no good basis, so it's basically carrying water.
2: I would be trilingual & bicultural from birth if not for cultural destruction my grandparents have living memory of.
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It still does. Sami rights were still ridiculed until the 80s, but the current govt. is trying to roll back Sami rights. Pretty successfully, since they are deferred from parliament.
Liberalism? After the oil boom. Socially conservative worker solidarity was norm post-WW2.
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It's almost exactly the same in contemporary Norway.
Pre-80s was preachy, conservative "educating" of Sami people. But those were different times in more ways.
Now, it's people who think native rights are "anticompetitive" who are the worst - i.e. libertarians and neolibs.
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The last time I was in Norway, I had a rare case of agetting angry at my grandmother on the Norwegian side (who is generally a very excellent person) for asserting Palestinians are "not angels".
Fairly sure she picked this up in church. Similar attitudes towards Sami there.
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So on one hand, you have the old school:
"Well sure there is violent, tyrannical oppression, but have you noticed those Sami people are really often alcoholics?" (seeing as they had no real drinking culture, something Norwegian merchants and officials were keen to exploit).
And the new:
"Why does Ante get to have subsidies for his reindeer? This is UNJUST."
(I am even inclined to agree with this perspective a bit, but not with the racism that tends to follow and/or justify those sentiments.)