OPINION -- It is no joke nowadays that when traveling to places like America or Europe, you will always find protests either about racism, homophobia, etc, and a large player in all these protests are politics. When I was younger and you asked me what a right winger or a left winger was, I would have had no clue. Being perhaps I am from a country whose media focuses on what is going on inside the country's borders rather than beyond it. The only time it would really report about world news is if something major happened like 9/11 or the still ongoing war in Afghanistan.
What got me interested in politics was only until about two years ago when the rich man who made a fortune running golf courses and constructing big hotels across the world announced he was running for presidency. Yes, it's a little cliché, but what can you say, most people did not really care for politics as much until the U.S. elections. I am not sure about how most people saw politics in America, but I think my statement stands true when asking a few people in public if they were worried about the Soviet Union only to be replied to with "Soviet Union? What in God's name is that? I don't remember any country called the Soviet Union." But in today's society people do give a damn about what is happening in the world. Every night at 6:00, at least one of the top news stories on TV would be about something to do with Donald Trump. In fact, earlier this year in a small town up north a 'proud Trump supporter' told a Muslim woman that she "don't belong here" and called them "f**king Muslim b***he's", something no one would have ever seen here in New Zealand before. That brings me to the other subject getting people interested in politics, Islamophobia, from all the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels most people get the fact that the people doing the damage are from the middle east and they don't want Muslims in their country; other wise they could be a terrorist. This sort of Islamophobia has since trickled onto the minds of a select few on NationStates, as well as a few Atlanticans that I will not name. RNN's Sozland contributed to this report.
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