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The Conversation About the Relationship Between Emotional Response and Cultural Change
In your book, you say Angela Merkel was motivated to switch her attitude towards refugees and the borders of Germany as a consequence of an emotional response. And that well thought through policies weren't in place to back up her transformative actions. I spoke to German citizens who are living with her, live it. So these are not right-wing extremists who want to close the doors to immigrants. But these are people who are living, very angry and saying this was spontaneous. It wasn't thought through.