WI: Patriotic Europeans against the Anglo-Americanisation of Europe

Globalisation is a revolutionary phenomenon which has changed many countries and the way we live. However not all of these changes are unanimously agreed to be desirable. In particular, the Western World has undergone the rise of nationalist and anti-immigrant movements and political parties since the later decades of the twentieth century, and the second decade of the twenty-first century certainly appears to be a boom time for them.

But what if, during the same time frame of the rise of such movements in the West such as the Front National in France and Pegida etc, there was also another nationalist movement/wave of movements in Europe. This ATL movement, like Pegida and the Front National, sees European culture as under threat but instead of seeing islamification and third world influence as the danger, instead sees Americanisation and Anglophone influence in general as the invasive force that needs to be stopped. Therefore, where ,Pegida for example, campaigns against Islamic immigration, mosques and the burqa, this ATL movement would campaign against Anglophone expats/English incomers to Welsh speaking Wales, International Schools, American films, the dominance of English as a second Language and English vocabulary entering European languages. In this TL, this ATL Nationalism is as influential in Europe as anti-immigrant sentiment is, and during the same time frame. establishes political parties which achieve comparable levels of success.

Some Questions:
1) How much divergence would be needed to make this TL a reality?
2) In which European countries would such a movement be strongest?
3) Where would such a movement belong on the political spectrum?
4) How would the presence of such a movement affect relations between the continent and both the United States and Britain? (Brexit comes to mind)
5) Would such a movement be present in the Celtic Nations of the British Isles? Would it join forces with organisations such as Cymuned and Plaid Cymru?
5) Would such a movement be pro or anti-EU?
 
The reason why this is unlikely as both America and the UK are essential to the economies and defence etc of the counties. Perhaps if Britain never joins the EEC and France never rejoins NATO such movements could be built around keeping the Anglo - Saxons out.
 
Actually there was such a movement in Germany shortly after the rise of Pegida: they called themselves Pegada (Patriotic Europeans against the Americanisation of the Occident). It wasn't clear whether this was a parody or some kind of Third Position fringe movement. However, I could see those movements going hand in hand. These days, conspiracy theories are becoming more and more popular. One of those is the "grand exchange", espoused by the French New Right (the generation identitaire) which proclaims that the white European population is about to be exchanged with migrants from Africa and the Middle East. And, of course, they see America behind this, with the "globalists" secretly controlling everything in order to weaken Europe. In Germany, they're not as strong as in France (yet), but it's a telling sign that the Pegida demonstrations featured many Russian flags. Also, the 'Monday demonstrations' for peace were also a breeding ground for Third Position activists, ranging from orthodox left-wing Putin lovers to downright nationalists and bizarre figures from the conspiracy theory circuit. The latter ones include people who say that Germany is still occupied by Americans and that the Federal Republic is only a company, the "FRG Holding" (I'm not kidding, these people actually exist!)

For right-wingers, America is associated with cultural liberalism, and recently also movements like Black Lives Matter. For left-wingers, America is the war-mongering imperialist nation set out to dirmantle the Middle East for a 'divide and rule' strategy. So the roots of such a movement are already there, and you can see it with the Front National being both against Islam and American hegemony, and in favour of French protectionism.

I think they would be fiercely against the EU, but heavily in favour of a (white) European cultural patriotism. I can see a similarity here with the emergence of nationalism in the 19th century: originally, it had cosmopolitan outlook, with smaller nations cooperating on a larger scale (for instance, in 1848 the most ardent left-wingers were in favour of a Greater German nation). Later, it turned more inward-looking and chauvinistic. I could see something similar happening to the idea of a united Europe.
 
Americanisation and Anglophone influence in general as the invasive force that needs to be stopped.

What exactly is this about, as in, what are people objecting to?
 
So, OTL Europe?

In several countries, France especially there are long standing measures to ensure the existence of limits to Anglo-saxon cultural ehegemony.

Subsidies for movies, quotas of French speaking songs on the radios, mandatory dubbing in the cinemas and on TV.

It is feared that US culture is appealing oo the lowest denominator and is bad competition with the local culture.

As a result, French movies continue to be an important thing, quantitatively amd qualitatively in France.
 
The reason why this is unlikely as both America and the UK are essential to the economies and defence etc of the counties. Perhaps if Britain never joins the EEC and France never rejoins NATO such movements could be built around keeping the Anglo - Saxons out.

One could make the argument that Muslim immigrants since the 60's or so have been essential to European economies, keeping their already significant demographic issues from being truly crippling. Doesn't stop them from being despised in quite a few quarters.
 
Brundlefly wrote:

For right-wingers, America is associated with cultural liberalism, and recently also movements like Black Lives Matter. For left-wingers, America is the war-mongering imperialist nation set out to dirmantle the Middle East for a 'divide and rule' strategy. So the roots of such a movement are already there, and you can see it with the Front National being both against Islam and American hegemony, and in favour of French protectionism.

Yes. As a friend of mine once observed, "Whatever you hate, America is the centre of it".

That said, western Europeans would have to be pretty clued-out to their own socio-political history to think that the USA is the source of social-liberalism in their countries, given how far the Americans lagged behind on things like gay rights etc. I think the idea of Uncle Sam as the global purveyor for sodomy and fornication has the most currency in non-western and peripheral(eg. Russia) countries, where people don't know much about the relative levels of social advancement among the western nations, but everyone knows that Brokeback Mountain was made by Hollywood.
 

Minty_Fresh

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I'm pretty sure the Russians have been and continue to bankroll movements like this. Whether it was the French Communist Party or the National Front, they have always had an interest in propagating anti-Americanism and anti-British sentiment.
 
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