One can witness, for example, the hounding of‘the others' of society, the ostracizing of‘inhomogeneous alliances' and, ultimately, the self-destruction of societies as in the case of Brexit.
These are minor issues, to be sure, but insurgent anti-immigrant parties have already emerged in many countries and are beginning to demand not just effective control of borders but the expulsion of illegal immigrants.
As a result of the growth of these Islamist groups, the modernist and liberal views of moderate and progressive Muslims are increasingly challenged and even rejected.
While immigrants from Asia are increasing, in Japan today we can also find discrimination and ostracism towards specific Asian communities. The work of re-grasping the"Inner Other" of Asia from the interface of history and the future is surely a most urgent task.
With Donald Trump's rise to power in the US, Britain's exit from the EU, and moves to expel immigrants from a number of nations, the sociopolitical milieu of our world today is giving stark expression to the very social issues Jaar has been spotlighting.
Namely, the influence of political powers that advocate the rejection of immigrants, foreign workers and other ethnic groups began to spread within many countries. Violent immigrant/foreigner rejection movements, ethnic conflicts, and even genocides are now occurring.
Jews have lived in France roughly since the 5th century, and for most of that time they were subject to government-sponsored vilification of their faith, mass expulsions, forced conversion to Roman Catholicism, crippling taxation, humiliating legal oaths, segregation in cramped ghettos, proscriptions from living in France's major cities and both systematic and random violence and murder.
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