Security and the continuity and innovation of France
The 2020 terrorist attacks in France and broader Europe brought a discussion on national, urban security. Reasonable focus fell upon the law and law enforcement, remaining to consider are the cohesion of the culture of lawfulness, harm reduction, and society building on local, national, and regional levels.
Truth and reality paradigm of the QAnon
Recent social and political developments in the United States of America brought attention to many participants of the right and left wings, the far-right and extreme leftists. Attention encompassing of what is believed to be right wing and far-right, but in essence is a mixed conspiratorial thinking of the QAnon movement. QAnon is a pro-Trump nationalist collective of conspiracy theory, religio-political ideology driven individuals concerned with the current world order.
Charlie Hebdo, Muslims, and the French European society
The 2015 caricature depiction of a revered Muslim ethnic character became a cornerstone for conflicts in France. Secular artistic work of prophet Muhammad on the cover of Charlie Hebdo satire magazine highlighted the French values of free speech and laïcité. Overall leaving to painstakingly contemplate the essence of caricature and social cartoons within society.
American citizen, national identity, the leftists and far-right divide
In May of 2020, the streets across North America and Europe erupted with protests condoning police brutality and embedded racism at the societal core. Triggered by death of George Floyd inflicted by law enforcement during an arrest undertaken in Minneapolis on the grounds of a suspected counterfeit bill distribution and continuously reignited by the casualties that followed within the Black American population and across other communities, resulting in not only a societally complex situation, but considerable reciprocal radicalisation. Along with the peaceful protests, solidarity, and creative flares America seen the efforts of the leftists and the far-right to propel their agendas with vandalism, particular to the shared grievances speeches, and violence.
Susceptible histories, fascism outlined
Since its unveiling in the 1933-1945 Germany, Nazism, became the renowned display of fascism. Regime that reassured its national identity and economy through their isolation and prioritisation over others internally and externally. Even since agreements over common economic, social, and security considerations were reached in the post-World War II Europe, countries under the European Union organisation, European countries outside of the European Union, and countries across the globe remained susceptible to the precedent of Nazism as a neo-Nazi phenomena.
Homogeneous societies, racism, and ethnic discrimination in Europe
Racism and ethnic discrimination in Europe – phenomenon of unlikely novelty. However, it is proven more and more dissected in the contemporary world. Whether it is a racist simplification to blood and soil, and the racial common sense of the Nazi Germany or the looming ethnocentric worldview in its historic colonial and contemporary polarisation terms; the notions are no longer mostly experienced, they are now mostly investigated and examined. While mindful of the Francis Galton’s eugenics thinking of the 1883, can not be neglected the long history of ethnic clashes and contestations between the nations where race and its cultural belonging experience little thought of separation.