> On 13-8-2011 7:59, Warp wrote:
>
>> Nowadays the trend has reversed itself, sometimes even to the point of
>> detriment. In many European countries the local culture is despised and
>> even considered "primitive and backwards", while cultures of distant
>> lands
>> are utopized (to the point of actually ignoring and refusing to
>> acknowledge
>> any negative sides of those cultures). The preservation of distant
>> cultures,
>> even when those people immigrate to Europe, is so idolized that it
>> actually
>> causes more problems than it's worth.
>
> Are you talking about the same Europe that I am living in?
>
> I am aware that some populist movements try to get this distorted view
> across. But things don't get true simply by repeating the same nonsense
> over and over again.
>
>

Not todays Europe, but Europe during the colonial era. You know, the 
Spaniards, New France, the Victorian British Empire,...

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