It could be classed a victory for us because of things like the EU being imperialistic.

However, I dislike how it was caused by xenophobia so it’s hard for me to support Brexit. It also harmed the working class in the UK, for example my friend’s dad lost his job as the company decided to leave the UK.

  • Muad'DibberMA
    6·
    4 years ago

    To get antidotal, my younger sister was born and raised in Poland and she wanted to do her University in the UK, but had to forget about that dream do to the strong anti-Polish sentiment in the pro-Brexit crowd, and she’d quite like to keep her life.

    This is really sad. The xenophobia in the UK is so gross.

    My college in the US had a lot of students from abroad, and it also had a big greek life / fraternity system, so there was always heavy racism against foreigners, especially asian students. At least a few hate crime incidents every year, not to mention a high suicide rate due to being away from their families and support systems. Luckily I learned that at least the Chinese students had orgs based in China that helped coordinate and get students at each college to meet each other to try to break that… but ya most countries are not going to have that level of support.

    • gallock
      3·
      4 years ago

      Luckily I learned that at least the Chinese students had orgs based in China that helped coordinate and get students at each college to meet each other to try to break that… but ya most countries are not going to have that level of support.

      Another example of xenophobia is that there is the narrative (in certain web forums, not gonna name) that these orgs are to further Chinese espionage. Of course, if these orgs came from a western country, no one would think that – maybe they would even praise it for “keeping their culture and support”, even if they had spies.