@fchollet I have a hard time seeing people getting so worked up and hateful if they are fat and happy (well, happy)
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Maybe, but if the crux of the issue is the economy, then why is it happening in 2016, when unemployment is at 5%?
and why is the racist far-right more prominent in better-off countries like France and Austria than it is in Spain or Greece?
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and why wouldn't you observe any correlation between Brexit vote and local economic outcomes? http://www.resolutionfoundation.org/media/blog/the-referendum-living-standards-and-inequality/ …
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no correlation economic *outcomes,* but that would assume rational decision making.
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I guess the point I would argue is that people care much less about "identity" than "status"
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re: "status" --for EU immigrants, signals of cultural difference trigger anger but signals of social/economic success don't
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the skinheads in Germany aren't well-to-do bankers. They are the slice of population that globalization doesn't favor
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Spain and Greece at very interesting -- they also have rich old cultural identities that immigration could theoretically challenge
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