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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (582)	10/27/1999 1:32:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1264

Lizzie, re animosity towards the Turks. For decades, the Turks filled the European demand for seasonal cheap labor. Many stayed, and acquired citizenship where that was relatively easy, as in Germany. Thanks to guilt feelings over Nazism, Germany's immigration bars were set very low, especially for "political" immigrants, and in recent years there has been a veritable flood of newcomers from the former Soviet Union. When the inevitable anti-foreign skinhead reaction came, it was directed primarily against the Turks, simply because they constituted by far the largest, oldest, and most familiar immigrant community. That's it, in a nutshell. In France, on the other hand, the primary targets of the "new xenophobia" are Arabs (especially from Algeria), since that is by far the largest new immigrant group in France. As you can see, the pattern differs from country to country. The point is that the European countries have really been, fundamentally, mono-ethnic countries, and that after a certain point immigration is perceived as a real threat to the dominant ethnic group and its culture. Joan