Borderlands of Rojava wrote:Tbh I think in the west we're moving back toward the original xenophobia of culture and away from race as a dividing line. Like nowadays people don't really need you to be a different race to dislike you. There's people in Britain who aren't fond of Poles or Romanians despite them being "white" in the UK, and in America there's many people who view Arabs as white and dislike them and many who view them as people of color and accept them. Like I think nowadays, because it isnt cool to be biologically racist, people are moving past "this country should be white and if you aren't white stay out," and moving toward "if you don't fit in our culture, stay out." I know in many European countries prejudice is based around culture and not phenotype, like in Greece or the Balkans or Russia or Sweden (many swedes aren't fond of eastern Europeans, finns or sami).
It's not good, though a lesser evil than being discriminated because of your birth. Cultural xenophobia leaves room to being truly accepted if you adopt to the place's norms. Romanitas.