A lot of this discontent is driven by economic concerns, but the form it takes is cultural or racial. We have to recognize that we’re in the middle of a unique historical experiment: We’ve never managed to transform countries that thought of themselves as being monoethnic and monocultural into multiethnic ones, which is what’s happening in Europe and, to a lesser degree, in the United States. Some of these countries were always multiethnic, but they also had a clear racial hierarchy in which some people had advantages over others.
Overturning all that is desirable, but it’s also politically difficult. We’re in the middle of a giant fight. A lot of people are rightly saying, “We need to live up our ideals,” but a bunch of people feel they have something lose because of it.
(((Yascha Mounk )))
"unique historical experiment"
Unikāls gan tikai priekš Rietumeiropas. Austrumos vēl atceras, tāpēc arī attiecīga reakcija (muh rightwing radikāļi-atsakās atdod savas nācijas, maitas-bunch of people feel they have something lose because of it).