the ascension of the extreme right in europe should people worry about it

-research paper-




andy roth
esl26
instructor tanya beserra







europe, throughout its history, has had a very tumultuous evolution of nationalist and xenophobic movements. every one of the major countries on the old continent has had a history filled with wars for survival or expansion with the other major european powers, and the suffering each country has been through has caused strong feelings of national identity.
after the second world war, which was by far the highpoint of all the racism-based conflicts in the world, western europe has tried to leave nationalism, extremism, xenophobia and anti-semitism behind it. and it seemed to have succeeded in doing so until the last few years, when xenophobia has started to come back in the spotlight of th...