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I assume they're referencing the not very subtle visual that a single mother with a mixed race child is the face of Europe. I suppose the argument is that since they only picked a single image to convey "The EU Voice", that's an intentional choice.

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Why single? Why mixed race? We could accept it as a mother and child or a woman and child.

He linked you the image but I guess you didn't bother to look. And I'm not the one making the argument, but it does legitimize their argument when it's the same thing begin pushed over and over and over. At some point you can't pretend it's coincidental. Imagine the same thing in Asia or Africa and see if the reaction is the same..

I'm not European so I guess I don't care if their culture is supplanted. But maybe they do.

Oh, I looked. The point I'm making is that both "not so subtle" things I asked are not in the photo - they're something people choose to imagine themselves. Women that are in the photo without husbands are not necessarily single. Babies that look like that are not necessarily mixed race (assuming that's a thing that has some real meaning either way). Given this is an European project, you can check what people from the north end to the south end of Europe look like.

I'm not sure what culture you think may be supplanted here. If it's the culture of "a classic white mother holding a darker baby can't represent us", then I can't wait for it to be supplanted.

>I can't wait for it to be supplanted.

You could have saved a lot of typing by leaving it at this and saying what you meant. No reason to be coy any more. The quiet part is being said out loud now.

Please read the beginning halves of sentences, not just the latter halves. As a European, this whole thread reeks _painfully_ American.

I honestly had no idea what the original commenter was even talking about before I started reading replies, which in hindsight was a mistake.

You sound like you may be the right person to ask about European feelings towards gypsies..thoughts? As an American, I don't understand the almost universal contempt held for them by Europeans.

It could be interpreted this way: the woman on the picture symbolizes Europe saving refugee child.

Ah yes, the Great White Savior trope.

Ok, here is more transparent picture for ya https://s15.stc.yc.kpcdn.net/share/i/12/10297121/wr-960.webp

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