Dutch Party For Freedom By Geert Wilders

Party leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), Geert Wilders helped launch an anti-Islam party in Australia. The Australian Liberty Alliance (ALA), a sister-party of the PVV, is inspired by the ideas of Wilders, and fiercely turned against the Islam. Wilders wants to ‘reduce the diffusion of Islamic people and culture’. Wilders’ ‘fear’ of immigrants and other cultures is based on his thinking that we, the Dutch, are losing our culture. Borders do not limit these kinds of ideologies, they inspire and stimulate each other, like in this case. This means that the very nature of Wilders’ xenophobia, his fear of foreigners, is a result of international exchange of ideas. The process of diffusion of cultures, political ideologies, and people,
The world was still licking its wounds, but in the meantime the economy and society of the United States were growing and profiled a more central position in the international order. Editor and publisher Henry Luce described the second half of the twentieth century as The American Century. At that time, prosperity corresponded to the idea that it became possible for Europeans to emulate America’s consumption patterns and ideologies. Electronic media spread American goods, trends, and ideas over the world, a process also known as Americanism. Luce debated that America shared all good things they had with the world, like the Bill of Rights, technical skills and love of freedom en equality. In the following Cold War the European classical culture came to stand across the American modern popular culture, with jazz, Rock and Roll and
All over the world, nationalistic movements arose, like Mahatma Gandhi and his peaceful decolonization movement in India. Nationalistic movements inspired each other, like Martin Luther King Jr.’ civil rights movement was inspired by Gandhi’s non-violent way of resistance. Resistance also arose in other corners of society, like feminism. Because of the intensification of globalization, people were aiming at a peaceful international order and new institutions were established, for example the World