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Originally Posted by OneEnglishNorman

IMHO what is possible is perhaps a breakaway small nation such as Cornwall or Brittany, seeking to protect their people from outsiders, both European and non-European. So such a policy would not be explicitly racist.

Places like France and England are on a different magnitude. Their bigger size works against them. Smaller nations / businesses / groups are quicker and more pro-active in making things happen.

The way things are at present, smaller populations are more at risk precisely because the effects of fewer immigrants is more devastating.

Their only chance would be if their economies were so poor that it wouldn't make them attractive to immigrants.

Besides, most of the so-called nationalist parties in those regions are in reality about language nationalism, not ethnic. In other words, they would consider a Senegalese who spoke their language as one of them.

What is happening in Belgium is a big political shift which the ruling classes perhaps did not foresee. So I suppose there is hope.

The only hope for countries like Belgium or The Netherlands comes from Europe. On their own, there is no possible reversing to their situation.

Originally Posted by Exeter

Assimilation as in cultural, intermarriages, or both?

Cultural, at least maintaining an idea of seggregation in the collective subconscious.

When you see, for example, a European people identifying themselves with the non Europeans who live in their own country, in front of other Europeans, you know that things have arrived to a level beyond critical.