Neocon,
If you're trying to unmask some sociological rationale purportedly supporting Poland's legendary anti-Semitism then I'm afraid you're wasting your time because there is not any.... As in every human phenomenon, like mass hysteria or nationalistic outbursts, irrationality prevails.
Likewise in today's Russia, Jews don't own all industrial and media assets; yet, when Russia's public opinion gets aware of high-profile Jews meddling in Russian politics, we may expect the jingoist fringe to be upset about it. George Soros advising Russia to devaluate the rub(b)le; Jeffrey Sachs on the Kremlin's payroll as a fulltime financial consultant; Goldman Sachs as Russia's treasury bond broker; etc.
In pre-WWII Europe, anti-Semitism was a widely spread "opinion" and although the media were much less sophisticated and ubiquitous than they're today, even the remotest boondocks of Central Europe had heard about the Rothschilds as the shadowy rainmakers of world finance....
The same irrational feeling holds true in present day Europe's animosity towards North African immigrants: most of the electoral districts and cities that show the highest scores in extreme-right parties are upper-middle class townships whose alien population is nil or consists primarily of bureaucrats from Northern Europe, Japan, and North America. Hence, the so-called feeling of insecurity can't be put forward to explain the xenophobic vote of those privileged neighborhoods. Not to speak of whole countries like Austria and Swizterland whose per capita GDPs rank highest among industrialized countries.
Gus. |
