Kwame Anthony Appiah: evaluation

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…But does listening work? Doesn’t a kind of appeasement often make things worse? Well, I don’t think the right thing to do is appeasement. The right thing to do was to solve the problems that were being blamed on globalization or Europe by the people who were upset. Which means more should have been done in terms of government policy in the north of England to improve employment — things like that. I think that would have been — But even if that’s a good idea, what if it’s just the case that, say, the rise of China lowers the global status of the West? It means stagnant middle-class wages in many places, and those things are just facts. We could have done a number of choices differently, but at the end of the day, people will be upset about that and turn back to nationalism.…

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