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I don’t mean contact but do they from time to time check up on their profile picture stalk their linked in, see if there’s any info on them.

I am skeptical about this. It was Western societies that dismantled communal structures and built a common citizenship—often through the use of force. The main instrument for this was national education. It instills a common mindset and set of values in all citizens of a country.

This can be compared to the color green. Within green, you can have different shades: some lighter, some darker. But the colors that are genuinely distinct are purple, blue, yellow, and red. The Middle East, in this respect, is truly a region where people with fundamentally different identities and values coexist, and where these differences can sometimes lead to conflict. You could even describe Lebanon alone as a “Noah’s Ark,” because it contains people of all kinds and backgrounds. These are genuinely different colors, and democracy and dialogue often fail to provide a solution.

We can see how much a certain amount of irregular immigration and cultural difference in Europe has contributed to the rise of the far right