Without being able to do modern business, we bring in the cheapest, unskilled, having no ability, labor from Ukraine and Belarus. Does this lead to the Maidan in Vilnius, because together we are changing both their and our ideology according to the new fashion?
"In France Mr. Gauchet, for instance, has studied with alarm the slow
ouster of democratic principles by the very different principles of human
rights. “The touchstone in the system,” he warned in 2007, “is no longer the
sovereignty of the people but the sovereignty of the individual, defined,
ultimately, by the possibility of overruling the collective authority.” Human
rights, often imposed by courts or centralized administrative bodies, could
wind up pitting democracy against itself. Back in 2007, Mr. Gauchet’s view,
whether or not one agreed with it, would have been accorded a basic legitimacy.
It has become less sayable in the wake of a decade’s worth of bitter arguments
over gay marriage and immigration.
The first sign in France of a politics focused on minority
groups came in 1984. Activists close to the government of François Mitterrand
sought to address the complex problem of assimilating France’s mostly North
African immigrants by founding an American-style activist group called SOS
Racisme. Le Débat reacted in 1993 by publishing a skeptical book by the
sociologist Paul Yonnet. SOS Racisme was not replacing a stuffy idea of race
with a hip one, Mr. Yonnet argued; it was introducing race theories into a
country where they had lately been weak or absent, ethnicizing newcomers and
natives alike, and encouraging the French to look at the minority groups in
their midst (Jews, in particular) as somehow foreign."
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