Resentment
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As the gap between the haves and the have-nots has widened,
resentment
of the chaebols has become widespread.
As a result, admiration of and aspiration to European values is mixed with disillusionment and resentment, and the Putin regime has been able to gather enthusiastic support by baiting the West and scoring well in the geopolitical game.
Growing
resentment
toward the West has reinforced Russian leaders’ enduring penchant for the concepts of “Great Powers” and “spheres of influence,” and the belief that international relations is a zero-sum game, in which others’ gain is Russia’s loss.
If the Remainers win a second vote, a passionate
resentment
will sour British politics for years.
Beyond lifting the eurozone economy out of deflation, such an initiative would have massive political benefits, as it would reduce
resentment
toward European institutions, especially in struggling countries like Greece and Portugal, where an extra €500 would have a particularly strong impact on spending.
Trump used populist language in his campaign, stoking up popular
resentment
against the educated urban elites, including capitalists on Wall Street.
We have learned the hard way that closed political systems breed
resentment
and extremism aimed against the interests of America, the West, and, indeed, the entire world.
True, America’s intervention in the Middle East also strengthened extremist Islam, breeding on the
resentment
that the US presence arouses.
The former blew up from the internal pressures of poverty, inequity, and anger, and the latter was swept away in an avalanche of rejection and resentment, the tail end of which Egypt is still experiencing.
That is the situation that confronts President Wahid who knows that much of the popular support for independence movements in Aceh and Irian Jaya derives from
resentment
against military violations of human rights, and that intervention by the army in the Maluka’s at very least exacerbated the conflict between Christians and Muslims who had long lived together peaceably and may even have provoked the violence.
Chinese leaders’ insistence on bilateral negotiations with ASEAN’s members, rather than with the bloc as a whole, has done nothing but fuel anxiety and
resentment
in the region.
In fact, Trump owes his presidency to the forces of rage and
resentment
on display in Charlottesville.
I fear that the latter is true – hence the growing
resentment
against the European Union.
Unsurprisingly, this breeds
resentment
among the young, able, and ambitious.
This has provoked intense local opposition to major new infrastructure development, with endless delay, increased cost, or lasting
resentment
the inevitable result.
In Britain, continuing intense
resentment
over the deceptions that led to the country’s engagement in the Iraq war seems to be the main reason for Parliament’s refusal to back a strike against Syria.
Today’s uncertainty concerns whether this preference may be overridden by pressing considerations of national politics, or
resentment
at the slow pace of reform in certain eurozone countries.
In autocracies like China and Russia, leaders resist the radical reforms that would reduce the power of entrenched lobbies and interests, thereby fueling social unrest as
resentment
against corruption and rent-seeking boils over into protest.
The public’s animosity toward Trump and
resentment
of the covert, intrusive, and probably illegal nature of the collaboration instituted by his two predecessors will not easily allow it.
But I would submit that Hollywood’s misgivings, however untutored, represent only the tip of a growing iceberg of
resentment
against the perceived injustices of globalization.
And, among the fragmented, distraught children of the Enlightenment, among the zombie heirs of Rousseau fibrillating between aggressiveness, blindness, and despair, equality is no longer a task but a taint, a sort of dark shroud, a halo of
resentment
and hatred to which our common tongue is tied as to a buoy in a tide.
If social inequalities were to reach new heights, their frustration and
resentment
could manifest itself fully.
Italy’s political situation – marked by a sense of never-ending misery and growing
resentment
against the EU and Germany – is equally unsustainable.
Regional conflicts cause anger and
resentment.
Whether China can develop a formula to manage an expanding urban middle class, regional inequality, and
resentment
among ethnic minorities remains to be seen.
But this, too, is part of the same
resentment
against elites, who are blamed for allowing foreigners to arrive in the first place.
Many in the Islamic world today cite years of European and American inaction in Bosnia as one root of their
resentment.
While affluent white women, or women of any background who managed to get a high-quality education – America’s Hillary Clintons, Madeline Albrights, and Condoleezza Rices – broke through the glass ceiling, and even have the women’s movement to lionize them, working-class white women have watched their rise with understandable
resentment.
But Putin’s recent address to Russia’s Federal Assembly was more a reflection of his
resentment
of Russia’s geopolitical marginalization than a battle cry from a rising empire.
To tell people who have been hurt that they could have been spared the pain does not give them any less reason to complain; it just fuels
resentment
of technocratic experts.
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