Ethnic nation-states in the Old West are crumbling under a scary moral void. Too many European citizens have no such thing as a comprehensive set of principles behind their various national identities; all they've got is their measly "Germanness", "Frenchness", "Britishness" or whatnot to hold on to, all of which are rapidly eroding in the acid of Cultural Relativism that the Europeans have been so eager and so stupid to embrace. Europe cannot stomach the backwardness of its Muslim Immigrants, yet it has no new cultural home to offer them. The French want their immigrants to participate in their "Frenchness" somehow, but "Frenchness" is inherited, it can never be acquired. Of course Sarkozy's father was an outcast because of his Hungarian last name. There's no way to get around it: Europe never forgets anyone's ethnic otherness. The Holocaust is very eloquent on this subject. The European identity is ethnic/tribal at its core, not ideological. Europe has no moral shelter to offer even its natives, let alone its immigrants. Now that the church has been dethroned from its historic position of moral hegemony, the Old Continent is mutely agonizing like a giant headless cockroach awaiting slow starvation.
But there is hope, after all, sort of.
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Hey, I am Kejda Gjermani, you quote a piece of one of my essays on this post. I came across your site through googling my own name, and I am wondering if you could do me a small favor: that is, link to my webpage instead of my etalkinghead article.
The link to that article is
http://kejda.net/2007/11/06/rome-didn%e2%80%99t-fall-in-a-day-an-analysis-of-western-europe%e2%80%99s-cultural-demise/
It just helps with page rank and whatnot, so readers of your blog can also find my other writings. Thanks a lot for quoting me, and your blog looks pretty interesting!
Take care
Kejda
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