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  • Een open brief aan de Europeanen

    Een open brief van Arnon Grunberg aan de Europeanen :

    "America is and has been for Europeans what Europe itself has become for many Africans, Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, et cetera: a place to escape to, a place of refuge. So perhaps now we can provide a better definition of Europe: it is both the place from which we escape, the past, and to which we flee, the present. And bear in mind that the past can easily resurface in the present. This is not a warning. I’m not here to warn you – anybody with eyes and ears can see and hear for themselves – I’m stating a fact. We are able to escape, but there’s no reason to believe that we are an updated version of our forefathers, any less corrupted, less prone to violence, or more capable of resisting evil seducers. Ah well, “evil” – shouldn’t we try to avoid this word, which has so many religion connotations? Yes, we should. Europe is other people’s America. Europe, in other words, is double-faced: it is both barbarism (within the last century, Nazism and Stalinism) and the answer to barbarism."
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