American Cultural Imperialism: Racist Fashion Edition

Anti-immigrant hooligans in Finland attacked a busload of immigrants last week. They did so while wearing their version of KKK outfits. The headpiece needs some work.

Of course, one would think that nationalist cultural protest garb would have something to do with Finland and not the faraway United States. But the power of American culture is incredibly strong and pervasive. Usually this is decried as about McDonald’s destroying food traditions in France or young people on remote islands without access to television wearing Michael Jordan t-shirts instead of following their parents’ ways and traditional indigenous forms of dress (I saw this precise thing on some islands off the coast of Sumatra in 1997 and it was very jarring and extremely educational). But there’s really nothing American cultural imperialism doesn’t touch, including racist jerks.