Having shaken off nationalism, Europe risks civilisationalism.

It is possible to be black and Dutch, or for a person of Moroccan descent to be unequivocally French. But is it possible to be non-white and to think of oneself as “European”?

Might eight decades of EU integration accidentally foment a form of ugly, pan-continental bigotry?

A new book decries the continent’s subtler form of chauvinism.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/08/17/having-shaken-off-nationalism-europe-risks-civilisationalism

#Europe #Identity #Chauvinism #Ethnicity #Whiteness

#racism #chauvinism #xenophobia #nationallism #hatreds #fascists #conservatives #bigots

(5/6) Space Warriors and The Digigrave by Su Hui-Yu re-examines the Taiwanese Space Warriors and explores the collective memory and values of #Nationalism, #Confucianism, and #Chauvinism. #mediaart https://ars.electronica.art/aeblog/en/2023/07/25/5th-vh-award/

Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I replied that it was even less fitting for a man to possess ignorance because there was so much of it.
-- Christine de Pizan (1364-1430 CE)

⬆ #Quotes #ChristinedePizan #Chauvinism #Feminism #Knowledge

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Graffiti

My latest blog is out! I look at some parallels between the UK and Italy #migration regimes, discussing ideas of #bordering, #chauvinism, 'Fortress Europe' and ... gardens.

This is part of a Discover Society special issue on 'Migration and Hostile Environments.

@migration

https://buff.ly/3nAQqbn

"There is no such thing as a privacy-respecting tech giant." Cory Doctorow on the chauvinist absurdity of banning TikTok, rather than corporate surveillance.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/30/tik-tok-tow/#good-politics-for-electoral-victories
#TikTok #privacy #surveillance #chauvinism

@snack "The answer to your question is obvious." No its not. This is a really lazy and technoshauvinistic answer.

If you dont want to answer the question, you might as well just not reply.

#chauvinism

@PStyleOne1 Yeah, there is no #chauvinism or #nazism here.

@terrafiedkestrel as I was reading this poem I thought about #blackwomen who are often described as #strong and #resilient but suffer a lot throughout their lives due to both #racism and #chauvinism #BlackLivesMater 🧘🏿‍♀️👩🏿‍🦯👩🏿‍🦼👩🏿‍🦽🧎🏿‍♀️🏋🏿‍♀️⛹🏿‍♀️🚴🏿‍♀️🚵🏿‍♀️🧗🏿‍♀️🤹🏿‍♀️🏌🏿‍♀️

What pisses me off the most about #ArturoPerezReverte is that, being so learned and having travelled so much, he has made a career out of stressing the uniqueness of mediocrity, ignorance and backwardness in #Spain. As if we were really unique for the worse. Or for the better. The more I travel and read, the more I despise that #chauvinism, and the more I recognise shared human experience. There are corruption, bigotry, embarrassing or absurd customs, and missed opportunities in every society.

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/07/16/the-atlantic-rape-police-epidemic-of-disbelief

An article written about 9 months ago about how hard it is for rape victims to get justice. Don't think it's that much news for people here, but still wanted to share.

#rape #sexism #chauvinism #police #feminism

*good news* for thousands of pensioners from #Britain enjoying their lives in Spain, France, Greece or Portugal - NOT! Naturally there will be a this-for-that, factually ending preferential treatment of Brits in #EU countries. And to think that many of those pensioners living abroad voted for #Brexit - no need to understand the kind of delusion that comes with #chauvinism and the narrow-minded us versus them that the #NastyParty is cultivating.

Certainly the collapse of #BritishSteel has nothing to do with the #insecurity caused by #Brexit and the ongoing #tradeconflicts between the #EU and the #USA? If every country wants to put itself first out of #chauvinism, workers are losing out. https://www.dw.com/en/british-steel-collapses-but-will-trade-in-administration/a-48826413

All too often #patriotism morphs into #jingoism, a mass #hysteria mixed with the utter stupidity known as #nationalism and #chauvinism. There is no glory in dying for a country and a flag.