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I don't believe there were a golden age in which it was
very easy to travel and visit another country.
I believe that the people were always suspicious of these foreigners
who don't talk like they, who will steal their jobs,
steal their women because they are men who travel
much more easily and that there is always an obsession
with the control over women on the patriarchal societies
which we had.
But I believe there are specifically
contemporary phenomena, and I would say that, as this
reaction occurs, it is generated maybe as
a reaction to the globalization in which we live.
We live in an era of dilution, of decay
of the traditional identities,
because our power plants don't belong to us anymore,
workers are not, necessarily, from the country in question,
products are relocated.
You know, the most famous French Wine - I won't give any names,
but it was on the first pages of the newspapers last week
in France - was just bought by a Chinese investor.
This was regarded as an outrage to national identity,
and, thus, I believe that we are increasingly more tense
towards this issue and we try to protect ourselves
against barbarians.