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Originally Posted by wilpuri
There is definately the element of European elites aping their American counter-parts. "No civil rights movement in Finland? What a disgrace! Quick, import a disadvantaged, preferrably brown-complexioned, minority!"
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For many people it really is that childish. They learn that the American civil rights struggle of Martin Luther King was one of the great events in human history and that Ireland or Finland is missing out on all the fun and excitement.
I'm convinced that one of the factors which made such childish thinking predominant was the greater and greater influence of women in politics. It's not the only reason, to be sure, but women seem unable to see past the fun of having "little black babies" to dress-up and play with.