The rise of Intolerance

There has been an increase in intolerance around the world and it has more to do with economic uncertainty and fears than anything else. Every where this rise is giving into the rise of extreme far right and nationalistic (and some would say) xenophobic sentiments. This was not the case a few years ago but due to the extreme recession and the easy availability of internet and all the garbage that it contains has created a sense of fear in Europe and other countries. It has also arisen in America but not that much since here it is the nation of immigrants. Nobody can claim that they are the original inhabitants of this country since the Native Americans were here long before the arrival of Europeans.

But it is the fear of losing jobs to competition and the fear that the immigrants will dilute their culture and maybe they will get swept away in the sea of strangers. I can understand this since the original Europeans are not producing more kids than the immigrants arriving, but it was going to be inevitable as a nation cannot keep on growing only upon its own people. It is also that the immigrants arriving from places are so poor and desperate that they do about anything to reach the prosperous shores of rich nations even if they know that they will be discriminated heavily against. If we have to stem this rise of intolerance we will have to pay attention to the poor countries economies and give them aid so that the people stay there and not arrive for a perceived prosperity that is increasingly become out of reach even for the natives.