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May 5, 2017 05:40 AM
https://www.tui-stiftung.de/en/media/you...oundation/
EXCERPT: For three out of four young Europeans, the core of the European Union (EU) is not its shared values, but rather economic cooperation. More than one in three want the EU to return political power to national governments. One in every five thinks that their country should leave the EU. And only half of young Europeans regard democracy as the best form of government.
These are among the findings of the European Youth Study, commissioned by Germany’s TUI Foundation, conducted by YouGov and launched in Berlin today, Thursday 4 May. The survey, which polled 6,000 young people aged between 16 and 26 in seven EU countries – France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain and the UK – provides new insights into how the younger generation feels about Europe....
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May 6, 2017 12:16 AM
How much democratic freedom have they really experienced? Maybe a break from centralized EU control would turn those opinions around.
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May 6, 2017 01:17 AM
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(May 5, 2017 05:40 AM)C C Wrote: https://www.tui-stiftung.de/en/media/you...oundation/
EXCERPT: For three out of four young Europeans, the core of the European Union (EU) is not its shared values, but rather economic cooperation. More than one in three want the EU to return political power to national governments. One in every five thinks that their country should leave the EU. And only half of young Europeans regard democracy as the best form of government.
These are among the findings of the European Youth Study, commissioned by Germany’s TUI Foundation, conducted by YouGov and launched in Berlin today, Thursday 4 May. The survey, which polled 6,000 young people aged between 16 and 26 in seven EU countries – France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain and the UK – provides new insights into how the younger generation feels about Europe....
alt-right (christian conservative) think tank study says what ?
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May 6, 2017 02:12 AM
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(May 6, 2017 01:17 AM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: alt-right (christian conservative) think tank study says what ?
Nah... Christian Rapp seems to be a name rather than some church's hip-hop band residing in an old mobile home across from its Meme Factory.
I'd never have known about the study if DW News hadn't featured it yesterday (Anglophone version, Brent Goff anchor). Believe me, "open the gates" Angela Merkel's regime is far removed from the Germany you're remembering.
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RainbowUnicorn
May 6, 2017 11:10 PM
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(May 6, 2017 02:12 AM)C C Wrote: (May 6, 2017 01:17 AM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: alt-right (christian conservative) think tank study says what ?
Nah... Christian Rapp seems to be a name rather than some church's hip-hop band residing in an old mobile home across from its Meme Factory.
I'd never have known about the study if DW News hadn't featured it yesterday (Anglophone version, Brent Goff anchor). Believe me, "open the gates" Angela Merkel's regime is far removed from the Germany you're remembering.
ok i will take the bait.
here it is
https://www.tui-stiftung.de/en/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUI_Group
http://www.tuigroup.com/de-de
http://www.tuigroup.com/en-en/about-us/about-tui-group
Quote: TUI Group is the world’s number one tourism business. From now on, the broad portfolio gathered under the Group umbrella will consist of strong tour operators, 1,600 travel agencies and leading online portals, six touristic airlines with around 150 aircraft, over 300 hotels with 214,000 beds, 14 cruise liners and countless incoming agencies in all major holiday destinations around the globe
soo... let us re-cap shall we ?
what is a very large corporate business interested in doing ?
keeping on side of the alt-right political scene and not upsetting or openly supporting the alt-left.
soo a study that finds that the majority of young travellers are not interested in politics really plays into their corporate model for privatisation of governance.
have i missed anything ?
(i am not critiquing the company as an employer or a brand.)
however them sponsoring a political survey is for what ends ?
do they seek to provide education to those young people about how politics works and the benefits of an open liberal democracy ?
i hope so because that would be outstanding.(however the cinic in me ponders there is a less benevolent intent. i hope i am wrong in that)
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May 7, 2017 04:07 PM
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(May 6, 2017 11:10 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: soo... let us re-cap shall we ? what is a very large corporate business interested in doing ?
keeping on side of the alt-right political scene and not upsetting or openly supporting the alt-left. Soo a study that finds that the majority of young travellers are not interested in politics really plays into their corporate model for privatisation of governance.
have i missed anything ? (i am not critiquing the company as an employer or a brand.) however them sponsoring a political survey is for what ends ? do they seek to provide education to those young people about how politics works and the benefits of an open liberal democracy ? i hope so because that would be outstanding.(however the cinic in me ponders there is a less benevolent intent. i hope i am wrong in that)
Yah, regardless of which side of the political fence -- a study can have flaws and its benefactor could sport underlying, covert agendas. But I'll often deliberately select items dispensed by SJW-blessed sources due to the potential of such receiving far less challenge / noise from that sector (in contrast to, say, brief revelations or results presented in a Trump tweet or from Fox News).
The TUI Foundation's projects (as referenced at the bottom) feature a rich array of " goodthink" expressions common in current southpaw preaching manuals. Assistance to refugees and the socially disadvantaged, assorted cooperative dialogues and cultural fence-mendings, pro-EU stance, etc.
One word which might be lightly construed as crimethink is "unemployment". But the latter was only recently co-opted by populist fronts; it's still very much a traditional element of southpaw concerns / propaganda except when it pertains to joblessness among white working-class males.
That the study was featured on Deutsche Welle is alone tantamount to the TUI Foundation receiving political approval (from the left). It puts the organization on the same footing as any social-goodwill offshoots of these business institutions. Which likewise are sacred SJW totems (if going by that opinion piece, anyway).
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